Aspire Mentor Training with Mentor Manual

Description

Aspire Mentor Training is designed for homeschool mentors, co-op leaders, and parents who want to help teenagers become thoughtful, discerning, and independent thinkers.

Critical thinking is not learned through worksheets alone. Students learn to think by wrestling with ideas, asking questions, testing assumptions, recognizing patterns, and discovering principles through experience. Aspire Mentor Training shows mentors how to create those experiences with confidence.

Participants will learn how to:

• Lead engaging Socratic discussions

• Ask questions that promote deeper thinking

• Facilitate conversations without dominating them

• Help students discover principles and truth for themselves

• Encourage participation from both confident and quiet students

• Use activities, simulations, and experiences to teach abstract concepts

• Create an atmosphere of curiosity, humility, and intellectual courage

Aspire is a discussion-based critical thinking and logic curriculum built around five foundational habits of mind: observation, pattern recognition, discernment, reasoning, and intellectual humility. This training helps mentors understand not only what to teach, but how to teach it in ways that inspire genuine growth and lasting understanding.

Whether you are new to mentoring or have years of teaching experience, Aspire Mentor Training provides practical tools, proven discussion techniques, and a clear framework for leading meaningful learning experiences. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of the curriculum, greater confidence as a discussion leader, and concrete strategies you can immediately apply in your own classes.

Perfect for homeschool co-ops, discussion groups, microschools, and families teaching students ages 14–18.

Training and Mentor Manual included.

Live online training: Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM–2:00 PM MDT | Zoom

About Your Trainer

Misty Myer has been homeschooling for over thirty years — all nine of her children, from the very beginning. She built the Aspire ·Inkheart · Impact trilogy not as a curriculum designer, but as a mother asking a question she couldn’t stop thinking about: before my children leave my home, what do I most want them to be equipped with? The courses grew directly out of that question, tested first in her own home and then refined through more than twenty-five years of teaching in co-ops and commonwealths across Oregon and Utah. In that time she has served as Mentor Representative in three different programs — training, supporting, and equipping mentors to do
their best work.  She lives by the conviction that principles are more powerful than rules, and that young people
are capable of far more depth than we usually ask of them. She is genuinely delighted to spend this day with you.