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The Life Skills Mentoring Curriculum is designed for
the facilitator, assistant and the young ladies who will be a part of your program. The 6-12 week booklet is broken down into
three categories; allowing all to learn, grow and become strengthened from what you will share with one another as adults
to teens or vice versa. The core foundation that TEworks is built upon is being able to effectively share experiences that
will empower someone to make a positive change no matter where they may find themselves in life.
The Coaching Section
This
section is for the facilitator. Each session allows you to mentor at your best whether it is coming from your personal experiences
or from what you have learned from others. It challenges you to be transparent with your group while providing tips for healthy
lifestyles and advancement to arenas that normally would not be a thought in a young persons mind. As the facilitator, you
have the opportunity to make a powerful change in a young person's life as you teach from these sessions. Objectives are
provided, questions are suggested to ask and "special notes to the facilitator" will be your guide as you create your own
style of mentoring centered around the curriculum.
Rap Sessions
This section was designed specifically to
get the teens in your group to talk. It allows your group to share what is happening in their environment and allows them
to express their concerns. The rap sessions will serve as a guide for the facilitator to learn from their group what is new
in their world; i.e. new trends in music, dance, clothes and peer behavior. The topics will create conversation amongst your
group allowing the facilitator to listen attentively to what is on their minds. Objectives, questions and special notes are
also provided to make sure that you give them life skills advice from an adult’s perspective.
Interactive Activities
Ice
breakers and projects that send underlying messages about motivation, respect and the celebration of who they are is what
this section is all about! Ice breakers challenge the girls to expose a little of themselves in addition, teach them how to
communicate in a group setting. Projects are given to the girls to break from the formal sessions; allowing them to express
what they have learned through arts, crafts and community service.
Overview of some workshop topics:
•Cultural
Awareness Part 1& 2
•Choices: What to Do When I Make the Wrong Ones
•Bringing Your "A" Game (Excellence in School)
•Putting
on My Best (Knowing How to Wear Your Clothes)
•Addressing the Topic of Abuse: Mental, Emotional, Physical and Sexual
•Getting
Positive Results Out of Negative Circumstances
•Interviewing: A New Approach
•The Benefits of Saving Your Money
•Daring
to Be Different Amongst Family and Friends
•Respect and Love: Do I Deserve It?
•Do I Want to Die? Sex Education
and HIV Awareness
•Friendships: How to Recognize the Good, Bad and the Ugly!
•The Effects of Gossip and Rumors
•Choosing
The Right Guy for You
•Let's Talk About the "Big C"
•Is “My Space” really your space?
TEworks provides
facilitator and group workshops to assist in the setup of your program. The training is designed for your staff to get the
maximum use out of the curriculums. We also provide home-based workshops.
To purchase the Life Skills Mentoring Curriculum
Booklet, schedule a training workshop or any of our other services
Contact us
*Workshops are scheduled for 1 1/2 hours and pricing varies
according to the size of your group. We look forward to working with you!
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"I
had the privilege and honor to teach one of Tish's coaching sessions titled, "Getting Positive Results out of Negative Circumstances."
The exercise was very rewarding because I was able to use the techniques outlined in the exercise to show the girls how negative
situations/ circumstances can work for them and not against them; can help them and not hurt them if they use the right approach."
Cheryle Nissirios
Assistant Facilitator
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Girls working on their "Motivation Boxes" taken from
the Interactive Activities section of the Life Skills Mentoring Curriculum.
The concept of this exercise was to encourage
the girls to learn how to keep focused on their goals even when things are not going their way. After they finished decorating
their boxes, Ms. Tish had each of them write out what their dreams were and instructed them to place them in a box. Every
morning they had to pull something out of it and read it out loud. "This was a fun and powerful exercise for me as well as
the girls."
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