Mentor Professional Development

Building Conflict Competence: Relating Well Through Difficult Conversations

Online | Open to all mentors

In this session, participants will learn about and examine their own conflict styles. We will explore what happens to our brains and bodies while we are in conflict as a way to prepare to work through difficult conversations and relational challenges as they come up. The workshop invites participants to reflect on the content and share from their own experiences as a way to deepen and integrate the teachings. Lessons learned from this session can be applied to our mentoring relationships.

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Career Chats

Resumes and Cover Letters: Tailoring Your Work Story to Land Your Dream Job

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

In this workshop, Mentees will recognize resume and cover letter writing as the art of marketing oneself as the best candidate for a specific role and access the highly sought after skills to practice that art with finesse in today’s competitive career market. Mentees are encouraged to come with “resumes in hand" for the opportunity to workshop their resumes under the guidance of Mentors!

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Publishing 360 Workshops

How to Craft Inspiring Writing Prompts

Online | Open to publishing 360 mentees and publishing 360 mentors

In this workshop, we'll build on the work we began last month and create writing prompts using the pieces we've selected and written for the HarperCollins books! We'll synthesize our ideas into writing prompts to inspire other writers and encourage them to join in on a collaborative writing experience!

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Salon Series

Explore Belonging Through Magical Realism with Alexandra Méndez

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

Alexandra V. Méndez will discuss the question of belonging as a driving force in the story told in her debut middle grade novel, What The Jaguar Told Her. The author will talk about how her own background informed the story about a Mexican-American girl named Jade and how she comes to terms with her identity with help from an elderly storyteller who is also a jaguar. Participants will write about their own experiences with belonging and practice writing fiction that explores this theme.

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Editorial Forums

Creating Space: Writing on the Internet

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors and diversity committee members

In this Editorial Forum, we'll discuss how we can create a safe space for creativity at Girls Write Now and what we think it will look like to be a writer on the internet in the future.

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Writing Works Workshops

Pen Your Personal Statement with Susanna Horng

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

Join Girls Write Now for an intergenerational exchange to help young writers take their college application personal statements to the next level! Lead by writer and NYU professor Susanna Horng, and with the support of mentors, mentees will explore their own unique story and how they can transform their lived experience into a powerful personal statement!

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Mentor Professional Development

On Successful Mentoring: Best Practices, Pedagogies, Red Flags, & Goal Setting

Online | Open to all mentors

In this Professional Development Session, we will look at characteristics of great mentors, explore the essentials of successful mentorship relationships, learn about mentoring pedagogies, review the difference between intentions & goals, learn how to identify red flags and what to do about them, and explore goal-setting techniques.

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Writing 360 Workshops

Poster Design: Call to Action!

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors and program alum

In this workshop, Mady will take you on a journey through the world of graphic design, showing you how to create a striking poster that both delights the eye and motivates your audience. Explore the power of design as a call to action for what you care most about using your imagination and the design platform Canva.

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Writing 360 Workshops

True Crime Poetry: Activating Awareness

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors and program alum

At our first Writing 360 workshop, mentees and mentors will delve into true crime as a subject, with the specific aim of creating poetry that honors victims and their stories. This generative poetry workshop will explore the ways that poetry can act as a social justice and activism device in the context of true crime, and how we can uplift the stories of true crime victims that often go untold. CW/TW: violence against women-identifying individuals

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