What is mentoring? How is it similar to advising, supervising, or coaching? How is it different? What does it look like to provide it (and receive it) with grace and understanding—especially across cultures?

As Brandeis faculty, we participate in a various mentoring relationships or other relational situations where mentoring could occur.  Whether you are a mentor to junior colleagues, postdocs, graduate or undergraduate students, or a mentee in your current role, you have developed a number of intuitions from your experiences, about what works, what doesn’t work, and the kind of mentor and mentee you would like to be. What you may not have had is an opportunity to connect with peers and reflect on your experiences together in ways that allow you to move beyond your intuitions to explore shared frameworks and theories about effective and inspirational mentoring. 
 
Accordingly, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Access and Excellence are offering this interactive, 75-minute workshop designed to guide our faculty to become more intentional about how to establish trust, set expectations, as well as give and receive feedback in mentoring relationships.

This offering of the workshop is designed for faculty in the School of Social Sciences and Social Policy. Additional offerings for faculty in Brandeis' other schools are scheduled for September and November.