Introduction

Our partnership created multiple training resources with a goal of helping mentors with SCI use transformational leadership principles to interact with their mentees, including:

• Handbook
• Video
• Tips & Examples

Handbook

We created a workshop handbook for SCI peer mentors to learn and use the transformational leadership principles.

transformational_mentoring_handbook.pdf

Video

After watching this video, peer mentors will know and understand:

• Section 1: Physical Activity Knowledge In the first section of videos, the peer-mentor is presented:
  • The latest physical activity knowledge for people with a spinal cord injury;
  • Where a person with a SCI can get information on sport participation, as well as the resources available to them if they want to use sport as a way of staying active;
  • Some of the barriers people with physical disabilities face when it comes to being active, as well as some coping strategies they can employ in order to overcome those barriers;

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• Section 2: Transformation Leadership Presentation In the second section, the peer-mentor is presented:
  • With a brief video on transformational leadership; a leadership style that looks to maximize the quality of the relationship with others. Transformational leaders empower those who they lead and encourage them to go beyond what they thought was originally possible.

Tips & Examples

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Relevant citations

• Shaw, R. B., McBride, C. B., Casemore, S., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2018). Transformational mentoring: Leadership behaviors of spinal cord injury peer mentors. Rehabilitation Psychology, 63(1), 131-140.Ìý
• Martin Ginis, K. A., Shaw, R. B., Stork, M. J., Battalova, A., & McBride, C. B. (2018). Pilot study of a training program to enhance transformational leadership in Spinal Cord Injury Peer Mentors.ÌýSpinal cord series and cases,Ìý4, 34.
• Beauchamp, M. R., Scarlett, L. J., Ruissen, G. R., Connelly, C. E., McBride, C. B., Casemore, S., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2016). Peer mentoring of adults with spinal cord injury: a transformational leadership perspective.ÌýDisability and rehabilitation,Ìý38(19), 1884–1892.