Services Specifics
Are you ready to take your practice to the next level? Life Adventures For All offers 1:1 mentoring/coaching support for practitioners in all stages of their professional journey. Life Adventures For All has effectively mentored community mental health programs, foster care programs, juvenile justice programs, youth programs, wilderness treatment programs, and private practitioners across the country – and internationally – since 1993. Life Adventures For All partners with you to help you achieve your professional goals. Thus, the scope, content, and outcomes are determined by you. The emphasis in this partnership is on building your capacity. Equipping you with the requisite skills, reflective habits, and courageous dispositions to positively impact your clients. Your needs drive the specific mentoring relationship. Research on professional mentoring shows higher job satisfaction, greater sense of efficacy, stronger relationships, increased performance, better retention, and a host of other positive outcomes if you partner with a qualified mentor in a strategic, differentiated, ongoing, job-embedded partnership. (The Education Alliance at Brown University, 2003; Wallace Foundation, 2007)
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What will the mentoring partnership look like?
A Life Adventures For All consultant will sit down with you to
discuss your goals, your purpose (what drives you and your vision
and what it looks like in your ideal future), and your evidence of
success. Then you’ll craft a tactical plan for achieving your goals and
growing as a reflective – and effective – practitioner and leader.
Over the course of the mentoring period, you’ll communicate,
collaborate, reflect, and revise your approaches to remain calibrated
towards your goals. You receive tailored support to challenge and
extend your thinking about your professional roles. There is no
pre-programmed package, since each and everyone’s context, goals,
purpose, and success criteria is unique.
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Phone calls (at least 1 per month, recommended): These calls provide an opportunity for you to update and/or refine your goals and action plans, reflect, debrief your leadership moves, and discuss the goings-on at your building. The amount of time is determined by you and your needs, from 2 minutes to an hour, as often as you need to connect.
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Email & text connect (Unlimited, recommended): Need we say more? Our usual response time is 24 hours for an email; even less for a text.
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On-site visits (minimum one per year recommended – or choose the deluxe monthly-visit package to truly go deeper and accelerate your growth as a leader): Your consultant will spend the day with you at your site, engaging in discussions and activities designed collaboratively to support your growth. Visit program, debrief feedback, brainstorm, analyze data, process scenarios, set goals, revise action plans, participate in team meetings, examine a problem-of- practice, you name it.
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Other Support (TBD by mentor & mentee, depending on what’s necessary to achieve the goal). This partnership is designed to support your growth – with success defined collaboratively – so if there’s something special you need to proceed, we can work it out together. This may range from templates of practice forms, to group curriculum lesson plans, to a risk management manual, to setting up a research outcomes system – the road is wide open.
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What is the cost of this partnership?
That is determined by the scope, duration, and content of the mentoring plan. Since it’s personalized to help you meet your goals, the fee structure will be created in accordance with the plan. Contact us to begin the conversation and obtain a quote.
