This three-day program brings mentoring and coaching together as powerful allies to support a robust process for leading and learning in relationship. Since 2007, the Mentor-Coaching InstituteTM (MCI) has provided participants- administrators, supervisory officers, teachers, district employees- with an enhanced skill set that supports capacity building in a variety of educational contexts.

In each session, participants will be provided with many opportunities to practice and integrate the skills, attitudes, behaviours and conversational pathways that a coach-like leader needs to inhabit when working with mentees, teachers, students, other administrators, colleagues or parents.

As part of the MCI’s commitment to maximizing participants’ integration and application of their learning, an MCI facilitator will connect with the participants prior to the training for background on the roles, contexts and needs of participants.

The training has been designed for a maximum of 35 participants.

Registration Deadline: Friday June 23, 2023

Learning Objectives

Session 1: Laying the Foundation for Mentor-Coaching (July 17 and 18)

  • Introducing the mentor-coaching model, mindset, principles and critical skills for capacity building and resilient, sustainable mentoring and leadership.
  • Developing skills for deep listening, asking impactful questions, offering effective feedback, and building capacity.
  • Exploring the mentor-coaching mindset: builds capacity and accelerates learning.
  • Providing opportunities to practice through demonstration coaching, peer coaching, and scenarios explicitly tied to leaders’ current context and needs.
  • Expanding confidence and capacity to support change through a coach approach to leadership.

Session 2: Enhancing Mentor-Coaching Skills: Co-Creating the Relationship and Navigating the Conversation (July 19)

  • Exploring successes and challenges of integration of mentor-coaching principles and skills within leaders’ context and practice.
  • Introducing learning in relationship: what sets the mentor-coaching relationship apart?
  • Introducing the role and impact of strengths in maximizing performance.
  • Observing and practicing integration of the structured mentor-coaching conversation.
  • Continuing to practice coaching with feedback for further individual development.
  • Cultivating the inner conditions and stance for ‘listening to’.

Follow-Up: Virtual Roundtable – Integrating and Sustaining

  • 60-minute online follow-up meeting over Zoom.
  • Scheduled two to four weeks after completion of Session 2.
  • Designed to support integration of learning and further coaching practice.
  • Additional online follow-up sessions are available at an additional cost.

Session 3: Enhancing Mentor-Coaching Skills: Application and Integration (October 27)

  • Exploring successes and challenges of integration of mentor-coaching principles and skills within leaders’ context and practice.
  • Introducing learning in relationship: what sets the mentor-coaching relationship apart?
  • Introducing the role and impact of strengths in maximizing performance.
  • Observing and practicing integration of the structured mentor-coaching conversation.
  • Continuing to practice coaching with feedback for further individual development.
  • Cultivating the inner conditions and stance for ‘listening to’.

Follow-Up: Virtual Roundtable – Integrating and Sustaining

  • Two 60-minute online follow-up meetings over Zoom.
  • Scheduled 4 and 8 weeks after completion of Session 3.
  • Designed to support integration of learning and further coaching practice.
  • Additional online follow-up sessions are available at an additional cost.

Facilitators: Kate Sharpe and Heike Bronson

Date: Monday July 17 and Tuesday July 18 (Part One), Wednesday July 19 (Part Two), October 27 (Part Three)

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EDT)

Location: 2700 -20 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 3R3

Accommodation: A hotel room block will be arranged at a nearby facility for those who require it. More information will be available soon.

Meals: Lunch and refreshments will be provided during each session.

Cost: $1650 + HST (Includes course fees, course materials and catering for all sessions. Cost is contingent upon sufficient enrolment)

Course Materials: Mentor-Coaching Institute Course Kit

All participants will receive:

Registration Deadline: Friday June 23, 2023

Originally posted as the Mentor-Coaching Institute Summer 2023 announcement on the Ontario Principals’ Council website.