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Learning to navigate emotions is a big step towards self awareness.

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Learning to navigate emotions is a big step towards self awareness.

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Mentor Ravpreet Ganesh came up with a beautiful way to help her mentee navigate through his emotions by an activity called 'The weather inside me'. They both do this activity individually through the week using the pre decided codes and then share with each other on their weekly calls 🫶🏻

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Mentor Ulhas Vairagkar visited his mentee's classroom to give him a surprise. His mentee was really touched and proudly made him meet all his friends too 🫶🏻

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Mentor Dr Haifa Khan used a beautiful technique to get her mentee to open up and present a selfie quite unique from the usual ones.

In Mentor Haifa’s words, “My mentee is a little shy and I understood it’ll take her some time to open up. So I thought of conducting a little activity with her as an ice breaker such that I could get to know her a little. I asked her to draw her selfie which would be all about her likes, qualities, and her dream job and she did her best! I'm so happy to see her putting efforts and slowly opening up. Sharing with you my mentee's SELFIE. 🤳❤️”

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Mentor Shreya Pathak attended the JFK football league in Mumbai to cheer for her mentee Zainab and her team. Her mentee also got awarded as the player of the match in one of the games. Showing up for your mentees can make so much difference. So proud!!

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Alone, we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.

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Alone, we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.

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Mentee Aasifa wished to learn & play Sudoku so her Mentor Muskan Gupta took the effort to first learn the game herself and now they play together on every call. They're even planning to participate in sudoku competitions going forward as a team. The picture also features mentee's 1 year old cousin who she was very eager to make the mentor meet with. We're loving the bond these two have been able to build with each other.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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Upon finding out that her mentee likes art and craft, Mentor Anvi Goel engaged her in an interesting activity of creating a vision board.

In Anvi’s words, “ I first explained her the concept of vision board and also asked her to watch a video related to it on YouTube for more knowledge after the class. I gave her 10-15 minutes to prepare it and she came up with this cute vision board, where she wants to score good grades, she wishes happiness for her family and she wants people to know for her good deeds and I couldn’t be prouder of her!”

We love how cute each element of the vision board is.

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Mentor Jassim Ahamed prepared some netiquette for his first meeting with his mentee. He observed and attempted to incorporate all possible details showcasing his dedication towards providing the best support possible. 🙌🏼

It is an incredible way to establish expectations which help the mentee in their learning and development. Expectation setting goes a long way as it helps both the mentor and mentee outline the rules that need to be followed, and eventually incorporate the same in their daily life :)

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Getting to know your mentee, beyond the basic intros.

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Getting to know your mentee, beyond the basic intros.

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Mentor Arpita Nagi decided to do a fun little ‘Get to know me’ activity with her mentee.

“I asked Minu to prepare for the meeting beforehand by asking her to get the two most special things to her, and I did the same! For her, the most special part of her life are her parents and she introduced me to them, which was incredibly sweet. I got my guitar and played some music for her. It really helped us get to know each other better and know what’s important to each one of us.” 🫶🏻

Activities like these open up a safe space for the mentee, allowing them to know and trust the mentor more while building their confidence in this new journey :)

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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’’

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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’’

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Mentor Isha Gulati  doing a great job with establishing ground rules for her mentee and herself! It’s really important to do this as it gives your mentee a sense of accountability and helps them in the long run!🙌

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Our goals become our purpose and tend to be our driving force.

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Our goals become our purpose and tend to be our driving force.

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Mentor Akanksha Babbar did this amazing activity with her mentee!🙌 "Sharing a snippet of a project my mentee and I are doing around her goals and aspirations. This is a dream collage that she’ll be presenting to me on our next call :)"

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“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

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“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

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Mentor Mitali Kedawat has started a daily vocab and gratitude activity with her mentee for helping her expand vocabulary and practising gratitude. Something so simple yet impactful - also very easy to be adopted by other mentors for their pairs :)

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Mentor Linda Maria Lal working with her mentee and building a habit of news reading and noting learnings. An incredible habit that goes a long way in making sure we’re more aware and better informed 🙌

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Remember having a tough day and how badly you wished for some calm amidst the storm?

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Remember having a tough day and how badly you wished for some calm amidst the storm?

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Mentor Rakshitha conducted a fun activity with her mentee!
They decided to do this on a day when the mentee was a little stressed because she was having difficulties concentrating, and Rakshitha decided to make this a learning moment and such a beautiful one 🫶🏽

”I asked her to draw a picture of herself and what’s in her head! While she drew I made a crossword puzzle for her with a few interesting words and asked her to find it and she found them in 7 mins (16 words) and I told her the biggest lesson she learnt was she concentrated on finding those words and didn’t get distracted as her goals were very clear(finding those words). I told her similarly when you sit to study try keeping a goal and study. She loved the activity and she was very happy.”

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We are all unique and that is our beauty which we must embrace.

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We are all unique and that is our beauty which we must embrace.

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Mentor Aastha Rathour had a discussion with her mentee on the LGBTQIA+ community🌈
“I made her understand about  the community and the different dimensions it contains. She was excited to know all of it. And she even expressed how she supports their choice to be identified on the spectrum. I was happy listening her flexible thoughts.”

Discussions like these  open up a positive space around these identities and help to create a more supportive environment for the community while also building a foundation of love and acceptance 🫶🏽

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Standing with them to face all challenges!

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Standing with them to face all challenges!

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Super Mentor Drishti Jain shared a really sweet note with us on her POC group about how she has been able to connect deeper with her mentee after she started supporting him beyond the assigned curriculum, with his academic challenges as well 😍

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Super Mentor Linda Maria Lal made a mood tracker with her mentee where she tracks her mood on a daily basis and reflects on the same. Loving all the purple (proud) days 💜

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Mentor Antara Vashistha helped her mentee come up with an exam strategy and even created a study time table for her. She also shared some cool tricks..

"There are also tricks to remember them- I will get those for you to, for they are easier to remember. Personally, the song helped me a lot because it's very catchy! :) I used to read and sing along and was able to learn till over 40, aaraam se. https://youtu.be/rz4Dd1I_fX0 "

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Mentor Santha Ilango takes out time to summarise learnings and send out a document after each session to her mentee about what they discussed. She doesn't just include what was to be covered but also includes the inputs received from the mentee. This becomes a great resource for the mentee to go back to anytime they want.

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Mentee Amar proudly sharing his Intro video with his Mentor :)

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Super Mentor Devlina Bhattacharjee put in extra efforts by sending reference videos to her mentee to make him comfortable and confident to record his introduction and see he finally did it :D

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Mentee Shama bonding over a shared hobby with her Mentor :)

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Mentor Priya Singh & her mentee are fostering their bond by finding common hobbies and interests. This is a great practice to connect with the child more informally. Loving the effort and the beautiful designs.

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Mentee Farzeena gearing up for the upcoming Chemistry exams with her Mentor's support :)

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Support, not limited to mentorship curriculum!

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Support, not limited to mentorship curriculum!

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Mentor Nidhi Sharma goes beyond the curriculum to help her mentee with her academic struggles as well. This hand written resource sheet is a great example of her investment in her mentee's overall growth.

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Super Mentor Arpita Pandey did a really cool activity on gratitude with her mentee.

"So we’ve decided to make gratitude jars for ourselves which we will be filling up with notes on things we’re grateful for on a daily basis/whenever we can!   This is just for whenever we need a pick-me-up on days we’re low and doing not so great!  The idea is to sit next to the jar, take a deep breath, and pull out a note or two to gain some perspective.  And honestly, she did an incredible job with hers and ended up making a reel about it :D loved how she recycled what was already there and made something beautiful out of it💕"

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Mentee Ankita's reflection of her self esteem & awareness :)

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Mentor Shivangi Rastogi did an activity on Self Awareness (self esteem) with her mentee & shared her learnings with the group.

"I told her self esteem is our opinion of ourselves and broke it down in very simple words.Feel free to add your pointers. I asked my mentee to draw a portrait of hers, a very basic one but she did a pretty good job.

Then I asked her to draw three columns and mention three things:
1) Strengths or good qualities
2)Areas of improvement, I avoided using the word weakness.
3) Her goals she would like to accomplish.
4) Her accomplishments

What was the outcome?
I got a better insight about my mentee as an individual. I also got to know the aspects she wants help with. For eg: my mentee wants a session on time management.."

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Mentee Saba on her way to developing excellent vocabulary :)

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Super Mentor Sneha Banerjee started a practice of sharing 'vocab of the day' with her mentee and through this structure pushes her use these new words in her writings and develop her vocab everyday.