Mentoring for Refugee Women
What You'll Do:
- Mentors for refugees women, will empower mentees to overcome challenging circumstances and help them find ways to make social connections and integrate with their local community and groups, referring and signposting them to other organisations providing more specialist support if needed.
- Through encouragement and active listening, you will support your mentees’ mental wellbeing, by providing a safe space to discuss the challenges faced as woman face and the increased challenges and barriers your mentee will face being a mother and a refugee.
- Being trained in positive psychology and coaching style techniques, you will support your mentee to help them achieve their goals and get them where they want to be.
Why You'll Love It:
You will find joy in knowig as a mentor with Unfold on this programme, your support will help
- Women break cycles of social isolation, improve family cohesion and wellbeing.
- Unfold to have greater reach in making a positive impact on the lives of many vulnerable women, living in Westminster.
- Supporting one of the most vulnerable groups in our communities. We aim to break the barriers that keep refugee women excluded from mainstream services and support them through their expeinrnce of being a parent.
- You will have fun, as you laugh, reflect and overcome challenges together, igniting imagination, and being inspired by your mentee as you join on their journey to positive change.
What You'll Learn:
- Through our comprehensive training and ongoing support, you will develop skills in positive psychology and coaching style techniques to effectively support a refugee woman to making steps towards positive change.
- You will gain transferable skills relevant for personal and professional development, this includes but is not limited to team working, empathetic leadership, organisation, growth mindset and adaptive communication styles and approaches.
- You may be matched with an individual from a different culture, age, or gender to yourselves, allowing you to gain an understanding of life from a perspective different to your own.
- You will develop an understanding not only in the experience and challenges refugee women face, but the stages and services of support available.
- Through our compulsory monthly group supervision, you will have the opportunity to share your journey and support others though your learning.
What We're Looking For:
- There is no one size fits all, your individuality is what makes you unique! We welcome volunteers age 21+ from all backgrounds, with life experience, who are non-judgemental and will be committed to support other women on their journeys.
- We ask volunteers to commit to delivering mentoring 1–2-hour a week, over a period of 24 sessions. Through mentee and mentor testimonies we have seen the positive impact holding sessions in person vs online has, and so we would ask any perspective volunteers to be prepared to be available for all in person sessions should this be the required need of your mentee.
- Due to the nature of our service users, we are only accepting female volunteers for this role.