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13 Introduction to Intergenerational Social Mentoring Activities: Mapping your network of mentors: Reflect on your own life and draw a small map on paper with the people who have been mentors to you (older relatives, teachers, bosses, etc.). What did you learn from each of them? Now think about whether you have acted as a mentor to someone younger. This exercise will help you identify how knowledge flows between generations in your own experience. Rural case study: Imagine that in a small village there is a retired carpenter (aged 70) and a 16-year-old boy who is interested in woodworking. Design a brief mentoring plan between them. What goals could they set (both technical and personal)? What logistical challenges would they face in the village and how would they solve them (e.g. transport, after-school hours)? What benefits would each of them gain after six months? Share your plan with other colleagues (or friends) to discuss and enrich it. Debate on myth and reality: In a group or in writing, compare the idealised mentor-mentee relationship in myths or films (e.g. Yoda-Luke) with real mentoring relationships in social contexts (such as a volunteer supporting a teenager at risk). How are they similar and how do they differ? For example, in fiction there are often ‘epic missions’ and an almost infallible mentor; in reality, achievements are more mundane and the mentor also learns. This debate will allow you to apply the concepts you have learned to specific contexts and better understand the true value of intergenerational social mentoring. M i n i q u i z : “ M e n t o r i n g f r o m t h e s c r e e n ” C l i c k h e r e t o p l a y