Mentoring

We’re a community of people who understand, who can relate, and who know that recovery and resilience can be found through judgement free, peer-to-peer lived experience support.

Guided by the lived experience of many, we know that a safe and secure environment is paramount to enabling women to reset their lives and move forward with confidence. Mentoring is not advice giving, it is sharing of one’s life learnings and experiences to help another.

We also know people feel like they can move mountains if they feel supported. Mentoring from someone who has lived a similar journey can be one of the most powerful supports that you will find.

Mentorship builds a strong sense of belonging, non-judgemental guidance, understanding and peer to peer live experience support. Speaking about past experiences can be cathartic, enabling survivors to feel truly heard.

Critical to the Women’s Resilience programs is a peer-to-peer mentoring service, cross-border, face to face and online. Our primary focus is long-term sustainable recovery, utilising the power of mentoring, following an effective trauma-sensitive, evidence grounded clinical & capacity building resilience program.

The Women’s Resilience Centre has researched with UTS and our Lived Experience Advisory and has identified the best practices for our service:

• We carefully screen to ensure mentors are skilled and can offer an empathetic lived experience, demonstrate a strong road to recovery and living a positive life.

• We offer lived experience mentors for support and “ capability building mentors” to help build new skills and knowledge.

• Mentors and mentees are effectively matched using the MentorCloud Technology and an intake assessment.

• Ongoing training and professional development is provided to ensure safety, confidentiality and mentoring insights.