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Mentoring MUSE Women Navigating their Purpose with Passion
MENTORING MUSE Women's Mentoring Program
Mentoring MUSE is a safe, inclusive space that fosters confidence and self-esteem. The program provides 12 months of consistent support and encouragement through mentorship, support groups, and workshops, which help mentees learn skills such as financial literacy and creating healthy boundaries. The group becomes a safe container for personal growth and honest discourse. Many mentees and mentors continue to attend our workshops after their official closure session and graduation ceremony
About Mentoring MUSE
Who We Are
OUR MISSION is to provide Ulster County women with an opportunity to navigate their purpose with passion. We foster a supportive community for underserved women to create their unique roadmap to success. Through one-to-one mentorship, support groups, workshops, and mentoring think tanks, our mentees gain the confidence to pursue their educational, personal, and entrepreneurial goals.
What We Do
WHAT DOES MUSE STAND FOR?
MEANING: We help our mentees find meaningful work based on their core values.
UNDERSTANDING: We understand that racial injustice, social and economic inequity, and trauma have been barriers in our mentee's lives, and we strive to help them level the playing field by offering support groups and resources.
SUPPORT: We see each mentee as a whole person who can heal and thrive when offered loving kindness, patience, and consistency. When a woman is ready to break inherited patterns of oppression and forge her own path, we provide a roadmap to success.
EMPOWERMENT: Mentors champion mentees to make career and life decisions based on their core values and interests while understanding the impact of their choices. We believe in reciprocity. Our mentoring model is based on a circular concept; there is no hierarchy or one way to succeed. Our mentors assist each mentee in learning to trust their inner wisdom.
Why Mentoring?
Mentoring MUSE is the answer to a need in Ulster County for underserved women to receive meaningful, consistent support to become economically independent by following a roadmap to success and discovering how they can harness their passions into meaningful careers. Mentoring helps women navigate workplace barriers and challenges, such as feeling isolated as a minority. Mentors can help entrepreneurs achieve their business goals. Mentors can model character traits that can help mentees in times of crisis, such as honesty, perseverance, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptability. Our experience has been that when women discover and leverage their core values and passion, it propels them to become leaders in their field and give back to their community. Frequent referrals come from RUPCO, DSS, Family Treatment Court, Foster Care, Office of Probation, Family of Woodstock, YWCA, SUNY Ulster New Start for Women & Trio Office, Office of Probation, YMCA, People’s Place, Center for Creative Education, Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, Bard College, SUNY New Paltz, Samadhi Center, Ulster Literacy, Catholic Charities, Darmstadt Shelter, HV LGBTQ+ Community Center, Ulster Corps, RCAL, word of mouth, social media and frequent interviews and PSA’s on Radio Kingston.