We offer two distinct mentoring programmes, our Global Mentoring Programme and our Tailored Mentoring Programme.
On both programmes, mentors receive a suite of TAP training to provide the best possible support to their mentee, learning a range of skills for their career in and after sport. Mentees not only receive the personalised nurturing support of an incredible role model, but also a personalised mental skills training programme.
We take a personal approach to matching mentors and mentees, knowing that every journey will be different. This is not a prescriptive programme, rather we allow athletes to move through our curriculum in their own way.
On both programmes, mentors receive a suite of TAP training to provide the best possible support to their mentee, learning a range of skills for their career in and after sport. Mentees not only receive the personalised nurturing support of an incredible role model, but also a personalised mental skills training programme.
We take a personal approach to matching mentors and mentees, knowing that every journey will be different. This is not a prescriptive programme, rather we allow athletes to move through our curriculum in their own way.
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The TAP curriculum themes are:
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Mentees not only receive the nurturing, big brotherly/big sisterly support of an incredible role model, but also receive a personalised mental skills training programme, developed by our team.
About Our Global ProgrammeWe match athletes across sports and location. Mentors are international-level, senior current or former athletes. Mentees are aged 15 - 24 and committed to their sport. Both mentors and mentees should be able to commit to the full year of the mentoring process.
Our 2019/20 cohort matches 34 athletes, across 21 sports and 8 countries, including 9 Olympians and Paralympians! |
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Most successful people, including athletes, attribute much of their success in life to people who have offered advice, guidance and support in some way. These people are usually a mix of mentors, coaches, peers, parents or guardians, community groups, etc. There are myriad factors at play in any individual or team's path to success, but more times than not, mentoring and coaching are critical.
TAP recognises these values and has structured a support system of trained mentors, coaches and mentoring curriculum to leverage in line with a mentee's needs and dreams, all of which are intended to complement an athlete's existing environment for success. Within this system, TAP continually fosters a "mentoring culture" which inspires athletes within the TAP community to mentor each other through peer mentoring to further sharpen their own skills.
The TAP mentoring culture is designed to be flexible and fluid, empowering their mentee to problem-solve, and develop skills to aid them in challenges on and off the field-of-play.
TAP recognises these values and has structured a support system of trained mentors, coaches and mentoring curriculum to leverage in line with a mentee's needs and dreams, all of which are intended to complement an athlete's existing environment for success. Within this system, TAP continually fosters a "mentoring culture" which inspires athletes within the TAP community to mentor each other through peer mentoring to further sharpen their own skills.
The TAP mentoring culture is designed to be flexible and fluid, empowering their mentee to problem-solve, and develop skills to aid them in challenges on and off the field-of-play.
About Tailored Mentoring
We will work with you to build a TAP mentoring programme for your team / club / organisation. We will operate the programme in its entirety, taking care of matching, safeguarding, training mentors, monitoring relationships, and measuring impact. Contact us to find out more.
We brought together a community sports centre, a governing body (Basketball Scotland), and the University of Edinburgh to match university student-athletes with young people from areas of high social deprivation.
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