Alumni Mentor Program
As a GTC Graduate, you have an opportunity to become an Alumni Mentor for a cohort. Please consider applying for this exciting opportunity.
As an Alumni Mentor, you get to take GTC again and to be in a supportive role to other participants and to the cohort as a whole. Past Alumni Mentors have reported that this second journey through GTC allowed them to see and understand the experience and learning at a much deeper level and to further their own learning and development in significant new ways. Alumni Mentors are both participants in the cohort and mentors for the other participants. The role is an important part of the GTC process and an important contribution you can make to other’s growth. You will work with the faculty and faculty assistants to help us guide the cohort and will have an opportunity to learn more about how GTC is designed and facilitated. In short, this is a path to advanced learning and an opportunity to step more fully into your role as a transformative leader.
If you wish to be considered as an Alumni Mentor, please note the following guidelines:
- Applicants must meet the criteria as stated under the Roles and Responsibilities below.
- Alumni Mentors and Faculty Assistants will be selected 60-90 days prior to the start of a new program.
- If selected, alumni mentors and faculty assistants agree to attend all intensives, participate fully during inter-sessions, attend organizing meetings prior to the program, and assist with enrolling for their cohort.
- Alumni Mentors agree to pay for their own room and board at retreats; tuition is waived in exchange for service.
Role of Alumni Mentor
Help enroll and organize for their cohort
Enter and interact in on-line space throughout the program
Be present for all intensives
Participate fully as a participant in the program
Focus on participants
- Individually and collectively
- Remain aware of individual and group dynamics, relay information to faculty
- Be available during meal times for conversation
- Remain natural while offering insight, support, clarification, illumination, challenge
- Balance being support and vulnerable as a participant
- Take care of yourself
In the Room
- Help keep room clean, organized and beautiful
- Assist faculty with supply needs, handouts
- Serve as extra in dyads/triads
- Help collect cohort; find participants who are late
- Observe the “way” the group is held and learn the art of that (shaping and letting go simultaneously)
- Learn to occupy the space between participant, and faculty
- Speak when moved while remembering that sometimes silence is just as powerful
Intersession
- Provide on-line interaction and support
- Attend local events as appropriate
- Complete specified assignments with cohort members
- Assist participants with projects as needed
Qualities/Requirements of an Alumni Mentor
- Successful completion of GTC
- At least Strategist with some understanding of Construct Aware
- Maturity
- Presence
- Ability to hold and be present to the group field
- Ability to read and respond to group and individual emotion, behavior, complex thinking
- Understanding and facility with integral theory, especially quadrants, levels, and states
- Grounded embodiment in GTCness
- Humility
- Wisdom
- The ability to alternate between taking leadership and following direction as needed
- Commitment to GTC/PI community as shown through contribution and involvement
Apply
We hope you will consider applying for the Alumni Mentor program. Further details can be found by downloading the Alumni Mentor Application or by emailing us at faculty@pacificintegral.com.
