
The 2023 Youth Mentor Conference is coming!
The Youth Mentor Conference is coming!by Amanda Rootsey OMG! Our Youth Mentor Conference is back again and I would like to extend a warm invitation for you to attend. 🙂 I'm blown away, yet again, by the speakers we've pulled together for this year's conference. I'm...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 11: Helping Young People Deal with Uncertainty with Sarah Found
In this episode, we're excited to share with you insights from Sarah, a youth mentor and researcher who has recently completed a dissertation on helping young people build hope and resilience in the face of ambiguous loss and uncertainty. With the ongoing pandemic...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 10 – Telling it like it is to parents, dropping the labels and being unapologetically YOU with Reece Anderson
In this episode, Amanda chats with Reece Anderson about all sorts of things - it was a big, deep, fun chat! We covered: self-leadership, connecting with teens and also the interesting ways that Reece brings the parents along for that journey and really looking at the...

Meet Some of our Pay What You Can Mentors
Meet our Mentors: Pay What Your Can Sponsored Places We want to support MANY teens by training as many youth mentors as we can in our Youth Mentor Training program! We're committed to making this training accessible and we provide a Pay What You Can application...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 9 – Honouring your Youth Mentor Archetype with Amanda Rootsey
In this episode, find out what your youth mentor archetype is and how to use it to be the best youth mentor you can be for the youth in your community. Understanding this early on can cut your learning curve so much, help you focus where you're going to have the...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 8 – Supporting teens to regulate their nervous system with Gina Nelson
In this episode, Amanda is joined by licensed therapist and teen resilience coach Gina Nelson. Gina shares about how we can start to help young people to map out their nervous system, catch when they're going into fight or flight mode and self-regulate their emotions...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 7 – Mentoring 1:1 with teens – what works and what doesn’t with Bec Coldicutt
In this episode of The Youth Mentor Podcast, we chat to Bec Coldicutt from Rebel Starseeds in Auckland, New Zealand. It's a big episode and we cover a lot, including Bec's previous careers in law and as a teacher and then starting her youth mentoring business, Rebel...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 6 -The power of journalling for teens going through challenges with Jenna Lee
In this episode we chat with author, coach and mentor Jenna Lee about supporting women and teens to confidently express themselves through writing. Jenna shares her story around being a teen and not knowing how to express herself, how journalling helped transform her...

What I learned at the 2022 Youth Mentor Conference
What I Learned at the Youth Mentor ConferenceBy Juliette Perera The 2022 Youth Mentor Conference presented by Shine From Within allowed youth mentors all over the world to connect. By coming together online I was able to learn from the experiences of the amazing...

PODCAST: Season 3, Episode 5 – Celebrating Menarche with First Moon Circles with Charlotte Pointeaux
In this episode we chat with Charlotte Pointeaux about holding first moon circles to celebrate and support young people around their first period. Charlotte shares generously about: // the magic of circles // how to set up the space so it’s really respectful and open...

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