<div dir="ltr">As we near the application closing deadline for the BCMA Mentorship Program, it's a good time to ask yourself: "am I a mentor?"<div><br></div><div>If you answered yes, that's great! If you answered no, then maybe you're not realizing the impact you have on your fellow staff, volunteers, and students. Everyone and anyone can be a mentor, no matter your position, pay scale, or institution's size.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentors provide much-needed knowledge, guidance, and perspective to those they work with. They listen, encourage, prompt, help, and demonstrate skills or know-how based on their own experience. They can help junior staff, peers, and even superiors make the best of their work and their own potential.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentors are also learners - they like to explore and grow and improve themselves. They too benefit from new perspectives, ideas, and experience from their mentee.</div><div><br></div><div>The BCMA Mentorship Program facilitates sector-wide mentorship for Emerging Museum Professionals over an eight-month period. Mentorship participants are given a suggested discussion/activity framework to use and are paired based on areas of expertise/interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Now ask yourself: "can I be a mentor?" </div><div><br></div><div>Join us as a mentor to the next wave of BC museum professionals! Find the recruitment form here: <a href="http://museumsassn.bc.ca/professional-development/upcoming-events/bcma-mentors/for-mentors/">http://museumsassn.bc.ca/professional-development/upcoming-events/bcma-mentors/for-mentors/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px" color="#000000"><b>Ben Fast</b></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Programs and Communications Coordinator</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:arial,sans-serif">BC Museums Association || 675 Belleville Street || Victoria, BC || V8W 9W2</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px">Office: <a href="tel:(250)%20356-5700" value="+12503565700" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">250-356-5700</a></span><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px"> || <a href="http://www.museumsassn.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.museumsassn.bc.ca</a><br></span><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px">Direct Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/benfaster" target="_blank">@benfaster</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BCMuseumsAssn" target="_blank">@BCMuseumsAssn</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BCMuseumsAssn" target="_blank">BCMuseumsAssn</a></span><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Join us for <i><a href="http://museumsassn.bc.ca/conferences/current-conference/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">A Climate for Change</a></i>, the annual BCMA conference, i</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n Victoria, <span><span>October 3-6, 2017</span></span>.</span><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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