Mentor Training Library Catalog | Schweitzer UMC

The Mentor Training Library - sumc.co/category/mentor-library - is a blog. This page organizes all the blog posts into topics. The hyperlinks are to the Mentor Library Posts.

Mentoring Basics

- January 2017 - Upgrade Your Mentoring - The 45-minute seminar by Jason and Mark
- August 22, 2018 - Upgrade Your Mentoring 2 - The 45-minute seminar by Jason and David
- August 2018 - Mentoring Sermons
  - - August 12, 2018 Sermon, Mentors Shape the Future
      - David
        
        Jason
    - August 19, 2018 Sermon, You Don’t Have to be a Superhero to Mentor
      - David
        
        Bob
- March 3, 2019 - The “first date.” - How much should the mentor talk during the first meeting, and what should the mentor say?”
- September 6, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 1 of 3 - My Ten Commitments as a Mentor
- September 25, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 2 of 3 - Top 10 High Impact Questions
- October 18, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 3 of 3 - Mentor Questions
- March 27, 2019 - Disciple’s Toolkit - Many growth tools for different personality types
  - - Print Version
    - Digital Fillable Version
- April 25, 2019 - ESDA, Evangelical spiritual directors association
  - - “The brain is a scary place, don’t go in there alone.”
    - https://www.graftedlife.org/spiritual-direction/find-a-spiritual-director
- June 17, 2019 - Colette’s book Review of Helping Others on the Journey

Prayer

- November 6, 2018 - Pray when feel anxious in conversation - Phil 4:4-8

Listen

- November 27, 2018- Listening Part 1 - “When you speak what do you want others to do?” Put their thoughts aside to give your thoughts equal consideration in their mind; painting the picture you are describing.
- December 18, 2018 - Listening Part 2 - Breathing, the main challenge - control the mind and adrenaline dump.
  - - The training video referenced has been replaced by a series of shorter videos, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sTFACq1yQ&t=14s. For more training on listening and controlling the mind's adrenaline rush freak out, watch videos 3 (Adrenaline) and 7 (Love the Lore Your God).
- January 15, 2019 - Listening Part 3- The Fundamentals
  - - The Equipping Ministries Listening Sheet mentioned in the video
- February 6, 2019 - Listening Part 4 - Practice, practice, practice
- May 6, 2019 - Save the Date - Relationship Revolution June 5, 2019

Emotional Bank Account

- July 15, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 1 of 3 - the basics
- August 8, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 2 of 3 - when to give unasked for advice
- August 26, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 3 of 3 - How to respond when mentee, or anyone, asks you for advice

Spiritual Formation

- September 16, 2019 - Celebration of Discipline - Teaser quotes from Richard Foster’s spiritual formation classic.