My goal is to test if Small Group Life Coaching can be an effective way for young people to develop life skills. If this format proves to be effective it would provide that a valuable service (Life Coaching) could be delivered at a significantly reduced cost. The group meets virtually on a weekly basis and I meet with them individually in between meetings. Group meetings are highly interactive and meant to focus on having deep discussions on topics such as Growth Mindest, Effective Communication, Helping Others, and Current Affairs. One on one meetings are focused on goal setting, goal attainment, accountability, and addressing any life issues that might arise.

I am a 53-year-old father of 3 daughters in their 30's and have been actively mentoring young adults for the past 6 years. My background is eclectic but a significant part of my time has been focused on for-profit entrepreneurship. At the end of 2019, I sold my financial planning practice so that I could dedicate myself to doing my part to make the world a better place. In May of 2019, I started to test pilot a program that involves small group (5-6 young people) life coaching for young adults.

I am working on Tourism Development and Administration with keen interests in Cultural Tourism and Indigenous Innovation.

I am a Lecturer and researcher in Tourism Development. I have degrees in Theatre Arts with PhD in Tourism Development and Administration as my research focus.

Since 2015 I have been involved in mentoring programs which are focused on migrating and young population. For this reason, I am interested in life courses and young foreign people. Also, the research that I am developing revolves around this topic and covers the same population group.
Because of my studies and work experience I have been interested in the mentoring impact since I started to be close of this social intervention methodology. Nowadays, I am working with unaccompanied minors or foreign young people that are turning 18 in Spain. When they turn 18, they start an inconsistent route with a lot of challenges to obtain a viable future because of the lack of institutional and social support. We have been following them up for seven months to see the challenges they face, especially regarding with their psychological distress and wellbeing in this stage of their life. Our initial hypothesis was that the more support they have, the better for them in defining, readjusting and retaking their educational and occupational trajectories in the new country. Moreover, we also see how the absence or presence of formal and informal mentoring relationships could have an impact in this critical moment of their life course.
For me, being close of these processes is interesting, but also, I think that the results could have implications for the Administration, practitioners and immigrant organizations in identifying their needs and how to provide effective networks of support, which I think is the most powerful thing. Cooperate on the development of a mentoring apprenticeship community.

I finished my bachelor’s degree studies on Social Work in Universitat Rovira i Virigli at 2016. After that I was studying a master’s degree on Youth and Society which was coordinated by the University of Girona but involved several Catalonian Universities with expertise on youth policies, youth communication or research on becoming adult and life courses.
My first experience on mentoring was as a mentor in a Nightingale program conducted by “Quilòmetre Zero” (a social association which develops this program in Tarragona). After that, I began to work on monitoring mentoring relationships in the same entity during 2016. The next year I was working in the same professional role in a mentoring program with refugee mentees, a program coordinated by the Catalan Government. This program was the first experience in Spain on groups of mentoring.
Nowadays, I am working as a researcher at the University of Girona. My work is focused on developing a common evaluation frame for the Spanish mentoring programs. This research is named Applying Mentoring. Also, I am a PhD candidate in the same university, and I am starting a research that pretends to shed some light about the situation of former unaccompanied minors who are turning 18 and becoming legally adults in Spain. At the same time, I continue giving support like trainer to different social entities that are using mentoring as a social intervention methodology.

I've been conducting research to examine the effects of mentoring programmes on mentee, mentors and the broader community.
I have a specific expertise in mixed-methods and cross-cultural research.

I am postdoctoral research fellow and adjunct professor of Community Health Psychology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. My research focuses on the determinants of health behaviours and positive youth development.

In the context of my Ph.D. dissertation, I am interesting in mentoring to work for people with a migration background or origin.

I am a Ph. D. Candidate in Economics at ECARES at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Twenty years working with same-age secondary schools wishing to abandon their same-age structure; I.E. from poor mental health and wellbeing to good!

Specialist in transitioning schools from same-age organisations to multi-age organisations.
Former Head, author of five books on school systems especially vertical tutoring

Program Manager of the Mentor UP Mentoring Program, inplemented from D.P.S.S. - University of Padova

I have been researching mentoring in Ireland for 15 years and have undertaken a broad range of studies with colleagues. I am co-author of A Guide to Youth Mentoring: Providing effective social support (with Pat Dolan, Jessica Kingsley, 2012) and of Mentoring Young People in Care and Leaving Care: Theory, Research and Practice (with Pat Dolan, Caroline McGregor, Routledge, forthcoming, 2019). I have also published a range of journal articles and book chapters on youth mentoring.

I am a Lecturer at the School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI, Galway in Ireland and a Senior Researcher with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

I am interested in the evaluation of youth mentoring programs. Currently, I am working with the nationwide German program Balu und Du and biffy Berlin, which is located in the German capitol. Both programs constitute so called general youth mentoring programs, as they do not have a certain focus, as for example the improvement of reading skills. Instead mentor and mentee explore together, where the strengths and weaknesses of the child lay and then individually focus on those. This makes it very challenging to evaluate such programs, as any child potentially profits in different areas from the mentoring. A naïve assessment of the same areas of competence is unsuited here to find improvements. Most mentoring dyads will not have improved in many aspects, as there was never a need for improvement in these aspects. At this time, there is no measure available to uniformly evaluate such mentoring programs, while also accommodating for the individual differences between the mentoring dyads. I am currently working on a research proposal to develop and evaluate such a measure. My goal is to provide mentoring programs with an easily used tool, with which they will be able to assess the change they sparked and then being able to improve on it.
In addition to mentoring research I am also active in the quantitative research, currently focusing on Bayesian multilevel models using flat priors. More precisely, I am using a simulation study to investigate the accuracy of model implied error rates in comparison to the actual error rates.

I completed my undergraduate studies in psychology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Thanks to a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service I was able to go to the University of Dundee, Scotland, for my postgraduate studies in developmental psychology. I returned to Germany for my PhD in developmental psychology at the University Leipzig under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ute Kunzmann. My PhD is based on the Interdisciplinary Study of Adult Development (ILSE), which has been accompanying adults born 1930-1932 and 1950-1952 since 1994. For my thesis I investigated different predictors of subjective well-being in older adults. In 2018 I started to work the Methods and Evaluation lab of Prof. Dr. Timo von Oertzen at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Here I have started researching youth mentoring programs, as well as statistical methods like Bayesian multilevel analysis.

Dr Heide Busse worked for the Centre for Public Health at Bristol Medical School (Population Health Sciences), United Kingdom, from 2012 to 2018. Heide joined the Centre for Public Health initially as a research associate in public health from 2012-2014 where she worked on a range of public health projects focussed on children and young people funded by the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) and the National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR). As part of this role, Heide worked on over 20 different research projects mostly concerned with children and young people. One study included a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a local mentoring programme which aimed to imrpove health and wellbeing amongst vulnerable secondary school students.

From 2015-2018, Heide undertook a PhD studentship that investigated the role of mentoring and mentoring programmes in relation to young people’s health, educational and employability outcomes.

Heide is experienced with the following research methodologies: randomised controlled trials (incl. process and cost evaluations), qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, observations) and systematic review methodology (incl. reviews of reviews and qualitative synthesis).

Heide’s broader research interests include young people’s emotional health and wellbeing, the role of natural and formal mentors in the life of young people, health inequities and developing and evaluation public health interventions.

Heide has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Groningen, Netherlands (2011), an MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) (2012), and has recently been awarded a PhD in Public Health from the University of Bristol (UK) (2019).

Heide's PhD thesis was entitled "Investigating the role of mentoring and mentoring programmes in improving young people’s health, educational and employability outcomes." Her PhD was funded by the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), one of five Public Health Research Centres of Excellence in the United Kingdom.

With her background in psychology and public health and experiences in working with young people in various settings (sport, clinical, research), Heide is particularly interested in finding out what works to improve and maintain the health and well-being of children and young people.

I am assistant professor and political scientist at the University of Girona.