Denver Seminary

129 TRAINING AND MENTORING Denver Seminary is committed to equipping leaders for Kingdom service who are theologically minded, godly in character and highly competent in their work as they respond to the needs of the world. This requires intentional and purposeful partnerships between each student, the Seminary and other contexts of learning (church, parachurch, non-faith based organizations). Denver Seminary's training and mentoring courses require collaboration between a student, a mentoring director and an external mentor. The student is required to meet in person with their mentor. Distance mentoring does not satisfy this requirement. The goal is to create a greater capacity in a student for life- long learning as they create integrative and theologically informed learning experiences. TM 500 Introduction to Mentored Formation This course provides a theological framework for Christian formation, which prepares students for mentored learning in subsequent training and mentoring courses. Students will integrate a biblical understanding of calling, work, mission and spirituality into personal reflection assignments that will create a theological framework for the formation process while in seminary. They will also be prepared to identify and begin meeting with a mentor in TM 501 and beyond. One hour. TM 501 Mentored Formation In this semester of Mentored Formation, the students learn how to discern, develop and manage a personalized learning plan focused on the formation of the whole person. The students are required to utilize cognitive, experiential, and relational learning practices, some of which are familiar and others that uniquely challenge their learning style. These practices involve the engagement of a self-selected mentor, in person, for a minimum of 10 hours each semester. While the student must have identified his/her mentor before the commencement of this course, the student is not required to begin meeting with the mentor until the first week of the semester. The intended outcome of the semester is to strengthen a student's capacity for life-long learning so that whole person formation continues post-seminary. Prerequisite: TM 500 Introduction to Mentored Formation. One Hour. TM 601 Mentored Formation Building on their experience of the prior semester, the students further develop their ability to discern, develop and manage a personalized learning plan focused on the formation of the whole person. The students are required to utilize cognitive, experiential, and relational learning practices, some of which are familiar and others that uniquely challenge their learning style. These practices involve the engagement of a self-selected mentor, in person, for a minimum of 10 hours each semester. While the student must have identified his/her mentor before the commencement of this course, the student is not required to begin meeting with the mentor until the first week of the semester. The intended outcome of the semester is to strengthen a student's capacity for life-long learning so that whole person formation continues post- seminary. Prerequisite: TM 500 Introduction to Mentored Formation and TM 501 Mentored Formation. One Hour. TM 602 Mentored Formation Building on their experience of the prior semester, the students further develop their ability to discern, develop and manage a personalized learning plan focused on the formation of the whole person. The students are required to utilize cognitive, experiential, and relational learning practices, some of which are familiar and others that uniquely challenge their learning style. These practices involve the engagement of a self-selected mentor, in person, for a minimum of 10 hours each semester. While the student must have identified his/her mentor before the commencement of this course, the student is not required to begin meeting with the mentor until the first week of the semester. The intended outcome of the semester is to strengthen a student's capacity for life-long learning so that whole person formation continues post- seminary. Prerequisite: TM 500 Introduction to Mentored formation and TM 601 Mentored Formation. One Hour.

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