Appreciative Mentoring: Supporting New Student Affairs Professionals in a World in Flux

About the event

Virtual NASPA Session 2024

Speakers
Peter Mather, Professor

Overview
Mentoring has long been viewed as an important avenue for supporting new professionals in student affairs. As higher education institutions experience significant challenges with recruitment and retention in student-facing positions, support for professional development is even more pressing. Appreciative Mentoring (AM) is a staff mentoring model built on the Appreciative Inquiry framework. Presenters will provide tools for implementing AM with early-career student affairs professionals.

Learning Outcomes:
Understand and recall basic principles of appreciative inquiry
Apply principles of appreciative inquiry to mentoring new professionals