DESCRIPTION: This course is an in-depth study of the informal training model
called mentoring. Unlike mentoring models in the business world, this course
aims to focus on character, spiritual, and leadership formation through
meaningful relationships. Without circumventing the acquisition of skills, it
also introduces three mentoring approaches: active, passive and occasional.
These approaches suggest nine types of mentor functions: mentor discipler,
spiritual guide, coach, counselor, teacher, sponsor, contemporary model,
historical model, and divine contact. This course will examine the dynamics for
mentoring relationships and the mentoring constellation. In addition, it will
help students (1) with current models for mentoring strategies with the
emerging generation and foster application in their current ministries; and (2)
with self-reflective evaluations on the meaning of servant leadership.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: This course will equip the student leader
to understand mentoring, to become a mentor (as a servant leader), and to
develop skills for growing people into Christian leadership. Through the
exploration of different types of mentoring, students will reflect upon their
own understandings of the use of power in leadership and the challenges
inherent within the formation of a new generation of ministry leaders.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The students will (1) articulate a biblical, theological,
and missiological understanding of mentoring as it applies to contemporary
Hispanic society; (2) be challenged to recognize several leadership cultural
challenges often found within a Hispanic background; (3) evaluate their
personal needs for mentoring and develop a personal mentoring plan; (4)
recognize and be able to use nine mentoring types in their ministry; (5) be
more committed to the formation of emerging leaders in the context of Christian
community; (6) gain skills in creating an environment that fosters Christian
mentorship.
COURSE FORMAT: This intensive course will meet on Thursdays and Fridays April
7 and 8, May 5 and 6, June 2 and 3, from 8:30 a.m-12:00 and 1:30 p.m- 4:00 p.m.
During these sessions we will cover the conceptual framework of mentoring.
Class sessions will include worship time, professor's lecture, and small group
dynamics. On June 3rd there will be class presentations of the students'
mentoring plans.
REQUIRED READING: If already read, select other books from the recommended
reading list or a book approved by instructor.