Subject(s): Relationship and Communication -- Understanding the context and designing placements : Situating mentoring in an ecological context, addressing multiple compnents in design and management of placements, can we achive community outreach through placements, design and management of placements, selection of an agency/ institution for placement, resources for mentor, example of a plan for concurrent field work -- Preparing ones self to be a facilitator supervisor : Understanding adults as learners and principles of learning, goals of supervision process and nature and types of supervision, roles and responsibilities and qualities, interactive learning methods/ structural experiences and their effective use, supportive exercises for mentor -- Understanding and supporting a team towards growth : Characteristics of a team, its life cycle and stages of growth, team building and team training, supporting teams in effective task management, structural experiences in understanding, maintain and inspire your team -- Maintaining effective relationships and communications : Understanding people and roles they play in groups, effective meeting, feedback, written communications, structural activities and illustrations for supporting relationships, tools/ guidelines for mentor -- Supporting trainees in processes of fieldwork placements : Preparing learner to understand, support the learner to plan need based, support implementation and documentation with constant monitoring, evaluation and appraisal of trainees, structural activities/ guidelines, plans formats- example for mentors to draw from, report formats, supervisor / mentors record, guidelines for mentor, tools for evaluation -- Training - orientation to basics : Design of training sessions- some illustrations for mentor excerpts from training for an evaluation study