Social and emotional mentoring for schools, academies and clubs
One to one mentoring for young people who are capable, but find pressure and setbacks hard to handle. Delivered in your setting or online.
Capable young people, struggling with the hard moments
Many young people do well on paper but struggle with setbacks, pressure, conflict and relationships. They used to pick these skills up informally, through time with adults outside the family. Much of that has gone, and schools and clubs are left managing the consequences.
What it is
Sustained one to one mentoring, usually weekly, over a term or a season. It's built on Bronfenbrenner's idea of proximal processes: regular time with an experienced adult that grows in complexity as the young person grows.
What it isn't
Counselling or therapy. Any clinical or safeguarding concern goes straight to your counsellor and designated safeguarding lead.
Built for settings where the pressure is real.
Private schools
For pupils who are achieving but carrying more than they show. Mentoring adds to the pastoral support you already have.
State schools
Focused on engagement, behaviour and relationships rather than grades. Pupil Premium may be a route to fund it for eligible pupils.
Academies and clubs
Football clubs, tennis and motorsport academies, music schools and other high performance programmes. For young people whose skills off the pitch or stage haven't caught up with their talent. This is development, not a fix for a problem.
From first call to end of block review.
Agree goals
A short call to agree goals and choose the students or players.
Brief staff
A staff briefing on the signs that suggest a referral.
Consent and baseline
Family consent and a baseline measure.
Weekly sessions
Weekly one to one sessions over a term or a season.
Report and review
A termly group report and an end of block review.
Reporting and confidentiality
- You receive attendance, agreed goals, short progress notes and group results.
- What a young person says in sessions stays private, unless there's a safeguarding concern, which goes to your safeguarding lead.
- For academies and clubs, nothing from mentoring feeds into selection or release decisions.
Measuring what changes
- Pre and post questionnaires on social and emotional skills and belonging.
- Staff ratings alongside the questionnaires.
- Results reported at group level.
Pricing
Pricing depends on the setting and the number of students. Pilot terms are available.
Cherian Mathan
I've spent over eight years in UK education, most recently as Head of PSHE at Bacon's College (United Learning), where I built the department around social and emotional learning. I've mentored over 100 young people. I research how informal social and emotional learning has changed, in collaboration with Dr Ashley Humphrey at Monash University.
Let's talk about your setting.
Tell me a little about your setting and the young people you have in mind, and I'll send you a proposal.
Or email
cherianmathan@outlook.com