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Polishing
Your Wellness Mentoring Skills
Congratulations!! You have
completed the Wellness Mentor Training! Your peer support skills
are a great potential resource to friends, family, coworkers and
members of your community.
It is highly
recommended that you put your skills to work as soon as
possible. This will reinforce your learning and help you
to create a more supportive environment for your own
healthy lifestyle practices. Some of the
following mentoring outreach strategies will help you generate
mentoring opportunities.
- Discuss your training
experience with friends, family and coworkers. Let people know
that you will be available to offer lifestyle change support.
- Hand out clean copies of the
Lifegain Lifestyle Assessment
Inventory to friends, family and coworkers. Offer to
support their efforts to prioritize goals and to achieve lasting
lifestyle change.
- Volunteer to be a
Wellness Mentor at
a community service organization, church, school, hospital,
medical clinic or at your workplace.
- Organize Wellness Mentor Training
for your worksite, school, religious organization or for your
community. Click here for information
about how to organize such a program.
A best practices database is
being created to draw from successful mentoring.
Click here to read some best practice
suggestions and to add to the database.
To learn more
about the history, theory and practice of Wellness Mentoring,
print out and read the
journal
article that appeared in the Art of Health Promotion. In addition,
you can
look up some of the books and journal articles found on the
attached list of suggested
readings.
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Learn more about further
developing your mentoring skills by clicking on the Wellness Mentor Training
Video link below.
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