This workshop helps prospective graduate students, newly enrolled, and existing graduate students position themselves for success within their program and beyond through a design-based framework for building dynamic mentorship relationships. By focusing on the core areas of academic wellness, professional wellness, personal-emotional wellness, and cultural competence, attendees will leave this session with a foundational understanding of how to build a constellation of supports and impactful relationships to navigate graduate school successfully. Attendees will leave with tools, resources, and a framework to implement right away . Participants will be actively engaged in small breakout groups and question and answer feedback discussions and reflection. This session is part (1) of the Mentor Collective workshop series.

The FULL MC Collective Suite of workshops is below:

✓ Establish Success Blueprint – Increase knowledge on success domains for graduate students and conduct a gap analysis through a culturally responsive lens. Create a navigational playbook for success.

✓ Navigating The Terrain – Learn effective approaches to survey the landscape, navigate, benchmarks, and manage expectations for personal, academic, and professional success.

✓ Mentee Mindset/Mentor Stance – Discover and use coaching and mentee mindset frames, success cycle implementation tools, approaches for effective communication, advocacy, problem-solving, and negotiation skills.

✓ Career Management Skills – Gain and leverage strategies for building social capital outside of higher ed and how to find opportunities to make significant progress in career positioning.

✓ Maximizing Financial Opportunities – Gain strategies that will help maximize financial opportunities to lesson the level of debt acquired in pursuit of graduate degree attainment.​

Who Our Workshops Are For:

GRADUATE STUDENTS & MORE — Our workshops are tailored to meet the needs of both Masters and PhD/EdD levels. and they are designed to address the unique needs of Black and Brown graduate students.

ADVISORS, DEPT. CHAIRS, AND MENTORSHIP SUPPORT NETWORKS — If you support Black and Brown graduate students in an social-emotional capacity, academic capacity, or you are invested in the success of your racially minoritized graduate students, you will find enormous value in our workshops. ​

PROFESSORS/INSTRUCTORS & ADMINISTRATORS — Gain a greater understanding of the unique challenges within higher education for Black & Brown graduate students to make programmatic improvements and creating optimal conditions for student success.

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