Creating and Sustaining Your Mentoring Network

In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop is focused on how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among advisors, mentors, and sponsors, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.