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Mentor Jean Jorgensen and Equipoise Fund president Mickey Babcock

Annie Jack reveals the 2008-09 mentor pairs

Mentee Adonia Ripple shares inspiration with mentor Cate Cabot.

Mentee Juliet Unfried chats with mentor Shawn Smith Meisl.

Mentor Kniffy Hamilton shares a leadership wish with mentee Marley Vaughn.

Contact Us:

Womentum
Melissa Turley, Coordinator
PO Box 3831
Jackson, WY 83001

307.690.7690

info@womentumwyo.org

Releasing the genius and ambition of the individual woman

Womentoring:

An integrated, empowering, accountable, mentoring program that builds community by developing women’s skills, confidence and local network.

Womentum is currently accepting applications from women interested in participating as mentees in the 2012-13 Womentoring program, and nominations of potential future mentors!

Founded in 2005, Womentoring is intended to foster women’s professional, civic and personal leadership. Womentoring enables women to perform community service in a meaningful way by committing time and energy to their own growth, as well as that of others. Womentum believes that when women develop their own goals, and are inspired through a mentoring relationship, they become empowered leaders within their community.

Mentoring is a fundamental form of human growth in which one person invests time, energy, and personal know-how in assisting in the growth and ability of another person. A 2004 study on the status of women in Wyoming conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research stressed the importance of closing the wage gap, encouraging women to run for office, and increasing the level of education of women in Wyoming. Womentoring strives to address issues within these goals on the local level by providing support, encouragement, and growth opportunities for individual women.

Kicking off the 2011-12 Womentoring Program 
in Mardy’s cabin at the Murie Center

Kicking off the 2011-12 Womentoring Program
in Mardy’s cabin at the Murie Center

The first nine-month Womentoring program launched in September 2007, with eight mentor/mentee pairs. Mentoring pairs attend small group dinners and two speaker events during the program, which starts with a Kick-off in September and wraps up with a Harvest Celebration in May. The Harvest is meant to share what the seeds of Womentoring have grown, but not to close the mentoring relationship – many pairs stay connected years after they participated in Womentoring.

Womentum uses skill sets and goals identified by mentees and mentors to match pairs, and each pair discusses their skills and goals to set positive outcomes they will seek together through the mentoring process. Most Womentoring participants have indicated they successfully completed at least one of their goals during the session. As one past participant noted, “By watching my mentor’s diversity of experience, I realized that it is possible to fit many lifetimes into one – that I could achieve professionally and still retain a well-rounded personal life.”

With nearly 150 Womentoring women in the community, it is interesting to note that new relationships have blossomed and not just through the pairings. The small group dinners foster wonderful professional and personal ties as well.

Please contact us for more information about participating in or supporting Womentoring!

Mentor and Mentee Testimonials

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