Creative Mentoring Workshops

Learn How to Empower Challenged Students
through Strengths-based Mentoring

(The Rossi Educational Approach)

Do you work with or parent an at-risk or challenged (and perhaps challenging) young person or adult? Are you an educator seeking new, effective methods – especially for struggling students? If yes, then the Merge workshops will be sure to educate, stimulate, and enlighten you .

The full-day workshop forum utilizes students’ stories and music and interactive discussion to cover:

MORNING SESSION:
Enlivening the Creative Spirit: A Strength-based Educational
& Mentoring Approach Using the Creative Arts
✓ Strengths-based mentoring
✓ Modeling
✓ Teaching approaches
✓ “Alternative” learners
✓ Successful learning processes

AFTERNOON SESSION:
Fanning an Inner Flame: A Case for the Effectiveness of the
Creative Arts in Human Services and Education
✓ The arts as a facilitator: Understanding, expression, and communication
✓ Creativity grown out of challenge
✓ Triumph over trauma
✓ At-riskness: a public health issue or a natural resource opportunity?

“This training was great! Everything about it was excellent including the content and the way it was delivered. The trainers were highly knowledgeable and stimulating — I’ll definitely recommend this training to others.”

Rossi Educational Approach
The Rossi Educational Approach addresses personal learning styles and emotional orientations, while using the arts in a culturally authentic and stimulating way. It is successful with disadvantaged or challenged students as well as those who are more fortunate, providing all students with pathways towards greater personal success and enriched ways of being in the world.

As community members train in and work with the Rossi Educational Approach they enhance their abilities to serve as mentors and guides, and provide their students with supportive relationships that build greater trust and a sense of belonging. These relationships can create community cohesion as well as provide the turning point for challenged individuals by freeing their innate desire to grow. Mentor teachers hold students to high standards while adjusting to diverse learning styles, abilities, and needs.