Purpose of IMP

Each fall semester, the Office of Organizational Learning and Development's (OOLD) professional development series offers the Indigenous Mentoring Program (IMP). This two-part workshop series is available to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and staff who currently mentor, or are interested in mentoring, Indigenous students. Attendees engage in facilitated sessions with a number of presenters who will share knowledge about cultural humility, establishing and sustaining healthy mentor-mentee relationships, and campus and community-wide services and programs available for Indigenous students. The workshop will also focus on Indigenous research methodologies, best practices for disseminating research in Native communities, and Indigenous mentoring practices.

Registration for IMP is through the OOLD professional development page.

Fall 2023 Indigenous Mentoring Program Details

Dates:

• Friday, October 6, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., UC 225 and via Zoom 
• Friday, October 13, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m., UC 225 and via Zoom 

Details:

Jennifer Harrington, Native American Natural Resource Program Director, W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation; and Maegan Rides At The Door, Executive Director, National Native Children's Trauma Center, will lead a two-part workshop series for faculty, graduate students, administrators and staff who currently mentor, or who are interested in mentoring, American Indian/Alaska Native students. Attendees will engage in facilitated sessions with a number of presenters and panelists who will share knowledge about:  

• cultural humility, 
• Indigenous research methodologies and methods, 
• how bystanders can interrupt acts of bias 
• establishing and sustaining healthy mentor-mentee relationships,  
• Indigenous mentoring practices

Please register in advance. As this is a two-part workshop series, we highly encourage attending both sessions. We recommend in-person participation for those who can make it; contact jasminezink.laine@mso.umt.edu to request remote participation via Zoom. 

Spring Semester Opportunities

CIS and OOLD plan to offer additional workshops in the spring semester of each academic year that will dive deeper into one of the important topics covered in the IMP. These topics will likely rotate each spring so students and employees are offered multiple opportunities to expand their knowledge on various topics relevant to our Indigenous student body.