Transcript of The 21st Century Student Veteran Support Center: Coordinating Mentors in Virtual and Interpersonal...
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- The 21st Century Student Veteran Support Center: Coordinating
Mentors in Virtual and Interpersonal Space * *As Delivered, with
Speaker comments in the notes area Professional Development
Symposium: Council on College and Military Educators (CCME)
Anaheim, CA, January 28, 2015 Barton Buechner, PhD, CAPT US Navy
(Ret) *Dave Cass, CEO, UVIZE
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- The Issues: Many veterans leave service without a clear idea of
what they will do afterwards, and receive little guidance when
separating more will be coming Schools and Universities were
largely unprepared for the large numbers of veterans using
Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits but a lot has been learned Most
employers lack a coherent strategy of reaching Veterans when they
are leaving service and while they are in school strategic points!
More coordination is needed at all stages and mentors can fill in
the gaps
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- We All Serve Campus Structures are Fragmented Veteran Support
Services Certifying Official Veterans Resource Center Student
Veterans Organizations (SVA, others) Student Affairs Campus Life
Diversity/Disabilities Student Success Career Services Work/Study
and Service Learning Internships Campus Career Fairs Not usually in
coordination May not be attuned to veteran culture Counseling
Mental Health Spiritual Support Faculty Pedadogical Layered
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- The Resourced Veteran We have veterans who are resourced now.
To squander that resource, no, thats just wrong. So to get them
here, and have them not be successful, would be such a tragedy. I
learned so much by coming back to school, and most of it was about
becoming part of something again that was significant. In the
military what I did was significant. I was part of something great.
Maybe you are just a little piece of it, but when you get here, you
are part of something great again. - Ken
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- Social Entrepreneurship Veterans leave service with paid
education Employers should partner to leverage college campuses as
integration points for recruitment in transition to mentor and
prepare veterans as future employees Veterans are trained to look
for mentors Integrate a mentoring approach to training, with focus
on developing strengths Many veterans want to continue to serve
Consider institutional attunement to a culture of personal
development and higher purpose and context NEEDED : A business Case
AND academic (empirical) Evicence!
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- READJUSTMENT: Better than any other kind of experience,
schooling can restore the veteran to the communicative system of
society (Waller, 1944) HEALTH AND GROWTH: From the Harvard Grant
Longitudinal study: Education was the single best predictor of
overall future health (Vaillant, 2012) Developmental Mentoring
Source: G. Vaillant (2014)
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- Why Multiple Mentors Matter: Trust is is difficult, may be
conditional, and can be developed over time in networks
Encountering appropriate advisors is often a matter of chance
especially in an unfamiliar landscape Communication skills can be a
blind spot Veterans need multiple mentoring relationships or
sources of advice to navigate complex change
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- Identity formation and re-individuation
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- 9 Mentoring Domains SYSTEM AND CULTURE ADAPTATION Traditional
Paving the Way mentoring Environmental Attunement Peer group
mentoring DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Making meaning from difficult
Lived Experience Spiritual growth Motivational Drivers and Contexts
Communication and networking competence
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- (The Student Veterans Lounge is) the midpoint between
collectivism and individualism. I think of this as the hub. They go
to class and learn they get to have their own opinion about things
that they are allowed to say out loud; and then they come back here
and recharge. Then they go to another class where they learn to
speak in public, in front of other people; and then they come back
here where its safe. - Pat Culture Mentoring Bridging the gap
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- Our Organizational Environments shape what we become - How can
we structure our Institutions so they support the evolution of
consciousness? - W. Barnett Pearce (2007)
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- Dave Cass Towards a Veteran-Centric Context in Higher
Education
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- Dave Cass Strategic Student Veteran Concepts: Demystifying
college academics prior to arriving on campus Scheduling time
efficiently Utilizing on-campus resources Adopting effective study,
test-taking, and classroom skills Managing stress Harnessing
technology
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- Mentoring Dynamics: Mentorship + Preparation = Persistence
Creating a culture of trust and connectedness Keys to Success,
#1
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- Networks of Interdisciplinary mentors Contextual Mentoring
Engages all four domains of human experience: Mind Brain Culture
System Bridges Social Worlds Supports individuation and
re-individuation Promotes personal growth Looks at (not through)
communication Normalizes mental health as a positive
construction
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- MIND CULTURE SYSTEM BRAIN Coherence Coordination Mystery
Interior Exterior Individual Student Veteran Organizations (MTMM) -
Peer Mentoring Psychoeducation and Therapy (OTMM) Behavior
Formation and Development (OTOM) Developmental Veterans Service
Office Organizational Support (MTOM) - Advocacy Bridging Family
Influence Social World Resources Engagement and quests Cognition
and Neuroscience Phenomenological Lived Experience Adult Learning
Affect and Emotion Observable Behavior Plasticity Collective Social
Justice Somatics
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- MTOMMany-to-one mentoring MTMMMany-to-many mentoring
OTMMOne-to-many mentoring OTOM One-to-one mentoring PGMPeer group
mentoring Group Mentoring types (Huizing, 2012) Significant Mentor
influences included educators, peers, family members, military
leaders and clinical counselors, across temporal boundaries
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- Support and lead Embody values Dont sugar-coat Are true Mentors
Few parallels outside of service An Essential Warrior Archetype
Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)
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- How NCO Leadership is Made Coordinated System of the Inspector
General Teach and Train Inspect Fact-finding Assist (Social
Justice) Emergent Properties: Self-confidence Loyalty to each other
Acountability Leadership by example Sharing the Moral Code
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- Contextual Mentoring Coordinated effort, led by someone who
gets veterans experience, and cares (empathic) at the personal
level Builds bridges between military social and future worlds.
Brokers loose-tie connections to others Integrates elements of
Family values (primary socialization), Peer support, Formation,
Mental Health, and role models Orchestrates existing lifeworld
resources and aspects of advising, counseling, coaching, tutoring,
social support - with intention Individual attention to help
veteran find their own path or quest Re-builds moral codes through
Mentor Communication
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- Organizations can develop everyone every day. They can turn
student and employee struggles into growth opportunities to create
a new kind of competitive advantage. A new way of working that can
be transformational for organizations and all of their people.
Research and practice about understanding how such cultures work
and making more of them possible. Towards Deliberately
Developmental Communities: Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming,
and Claire Lee Shift in focus from performance to growth and
capacity-building New ways to measure personal growth outcomes in
Higher education?
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- Super Integral - witness self, being-centric view, (emergent)
Integral - holistic, autonomous, worldcentric, Cosmopolitan 4% of
US pop, evolved 50 years ago Pluralistic - sensitive self,
individualistic, idealistic, 10% of US pop, 100 years ago Rational
- scientists, data-driven decision-making, logic, reason, 25% of
pop, 300 years ago Mythical - hierarchical religions, conformist,
good/bad, ethnocentric, 40% of US pop, 5000 years ago Egocentric -
'me'/'I want it now', evolved 10,000 years ago, 20% of US pop.
Magic - tribes, clans, gangs, superstitious, safety/survival, 10%
of US pop. Archaic - Basic survival,