[Events] how to approach disengaged attendees

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

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> A mentor is not going to be able to read minds and all of the cues that
> tells them to back off versus approach, but perhaps you could have a
> sentence or two explaining sometimes that a soft approach is good, and that
> there are cues they might see to find that they can have a friendly retreat
> if the soft approach did not work.
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That's a very good point, Sheila.  Thank you for raising it.  We definitely
want everything to be a "soft approach" - they may be at our workshop, but
it's up to students to decide what they want to do and the type of
experience they'd like to have.




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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I'm writing up a guide for mentors at our events, and I want to include a
>> section on how to approach students that look
>> confused/frustrated/disengaged.  Surely these strategies have been written
>> about before!  Does anyone have suggestions of what to read and adapt for
>> our guide?
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>> ~ Shauna
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