Join the Creative Mentoring team and Jo Stockdale from Well Within Reach for this training opportunity.

‘Resilience’ has no universally recognised definition; it means different things in different contexts.
Yet, over the course of a Creative Mentoring relationship, we all want to see our mentees’ resilience flourish; they deal better with setbacks, can handle uncertainty, bounce back, not take things personally, adapt to change. The list goes on…

But Creative Mentoring is not an instructional practice – it is relational – meaning we must model the attributes of resilience ourselves if we are to nurture resilience in our young people; we must ‘be what we want to see’. So how do we do that?

Drawing on our collective experiences and challenges, this reflective session explores this question by:

• Identifying the unique characteristics of resilience needed for the demanding role of Creative Mentoring, and the simple but effective ways to nurture it
• Deepening our understanding of the interconnectedness between our own resilience and that of our mentees’, enabling us to effectively nourish the children we support, alongside ourselves