Pair Mentoring and Team Mentoring Using a Novel Thought Processor

Laura Voss, Nur Muhammad,Doug Morrison

Oxford, 7 July 2016

Workshop presented by…

Laura VossMentor at 6W2Xlauravoss@live.com

@HildeStarling

Nur MuhammadMentor at 6W2X

nurmuhdbs@gmail.com

Doug MorrisonFounder at 6W2X

d@6w2x.com

@6W2X

Introductions

• Name• Organisation• What you feel grateful for

Please write down what you feel grateful for and we will add it to the tree of gratitude

6W2X

• Accelerator for social enterprises• Initially for students• Following OSEP, opened out to the community• Agile, low cost, easy to replicate• Democratisation of entrepreneurship

Why Team Mentoring?

• Mentoring is most effective form of support• Mentoring helps the mentor• Team mentoring gives young people

opportunity to mentor• Team mentoring widens the pool of mentors • Mentors learn from each other• Two heads are better than one• Greater diversity

Why Pair Mentoring?

• All of the above, plus…• Fits in better with traditional mentoring (just

one extra chair)• Easier to organise• Based on Pair Programming in agile computing

Novel Thought ProcessorWe use a novel thought processor, called Thortspace…

Thortspace Overview

• 3D thought processor• Non-hierarchical• Ideas placed in groups on spheres• Category sets• Paths• Several Presentation modes

Linked Spheres

Category Sets

Category Sets

Paths

Over to you…

• Today we will do some mentoring to solve some real problems

• We will use categories from Thortspace to provoke ideas

• Later we will enter your thoughts onto Thortspace and use that as a source for further development

Challenge 1

• Use mentoring to help some new appointments

• 10 minutes

Appointment 1

• Product Manager at Oxford Museum of Happiness

• Needs help to think up new products and services

Appointment 2

• Marketing Manager at Oxford Museum of Happiness

• Needs help to attract new clients

Challenge 2

• Plans for Box of Happiness• Contents• Sources• Marketing• 10 minutes

Order of thoughts

Challenge 3

• Plan event for Museum of Happiness• Suggestions for segments and challenges on

the day• 20 minutes

Thank you!

• Please write down your happiness pledge• Tweet #myhappinesspledge is…

Useful links

http://6w2x.comhttp://www.meetup.com/SE-Junction-London/http://www.pitchforpeople.com/projects/mentors-wanted/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBlbdk1dXUhttps://www.thortspace.com/http://www.museumofhappiness.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSN6IAA6AYhttp://thecanvascafe.org/