Speak Out Digital Edition June 2016

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“It has increased our networks within our profession and keeps us all updated on service delivery changes and issues facing speech pathologists in different areas.”

contact our mentor via email between meetings if we had more specific questions or required further advice/information. We also used emails to organise our next meetings. Once our year of mentoring was officially over, Hannah and myself were extremely grateful for the insight and knowledge we had gained from our mentor and even more grateful when she asked us if we would still like to continue meeting in a more informal capacity. Over three years on from our initial meeting and we are still catching up for lunch every few months. We find it really valuable to engage in this mentoring approach as it provides an opportunity to hear outside points of view and also to open up new perspectives to challenges we might be facing in our roles. It has increased our networks within our profession and keeps us all updated on service delivery changes and issues facing speech pathologists in different areas. Corina has also been provided another mentee who we are hoping will join our lunch catch ups so that we can also learn from her experiences and hopefully she too can gain some knowledge, insight and advice from our unique mentoring. By Lucy FitzSimons

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