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Youth
Changemaker Fellowship

Fellowship Structure

The Youth Changemaker Fellowship is a 12-14 month fellowship for college students who desire to inspire positive change in the world from the inside-out, by first bringing about change in their own self.

The Fellowship has 3 phases:

  1. A week-long online Fellowship launch in July, 2023. Followed by six weeks of ‘summer intensives’ - remote trainings of 2-3 hours per week.
  2. A commitment of 4-5 hours/week during the Fall and Spring semesters of the academic year.
    • Weekly commitments will include 15-min of daily introspection, weekly learning circle meetings, biweekly coaching conversations, and monthly virtual Fellowship get togethers.
    • Fellows will have 1 presentation to do in early Spring on the evolution of their Change Project.
  3. A two-week, in-person, Summer Capstone hosted at Oxford University. Invitations will depend on semester engagement and completion of programmatic deliverables. Selected participants will receive free room, a meal plan and a limited additional stipend, for a total investment of around $5,000 per participant.

The Fellowship is strongly weighted toward self-reflection, practice, experimentation, and peer-support – with the goal of habit formation, safe experimentation and generating proof-points of early success in one’s inner and outer changemaking work. It involves two components: Training and a Change Project.

  1. LIVING WITH INNER MASTERY

    2. The goal of the training is to develop changemaking skills that will be of lifelong value to Fellows in helping build more principled families, organizations, professions and communities.

    All training will be supported by faculty, coaches and staff of the Mentora Institute.

    This training is based on the Mentora Institute’s Inner Mastery | Outer Impact curriculum developed by Professor Hitendra Wadhwa at Columbia Business School. It draws from a multidisciplinary scientific foundation (psychology, psychotherapy, sociology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and more) and studies of great changemakers and movements across history. It consists of three parts: Inner Mastery, Outer Impact and I|O Change.

    1. The Inner Mastery curriculum helps you bring out the best in yourself by learning to operate from your Inner Core – the space of highest potential within you. At your Core, you are:
      1. Committed a noble purpose and a set of guiding principles
      2. Calm and open to embracing the truth in whatever form it comes
      3. Connected with people, humanity and nature
      4. Curious and open to new learnings and growth
      5. Centered in your tranquil and joyful spirit within
  2. LEADING WITH OUTER IMPACT

    1. The Outer Impact curriculum consists of 25 Actions through which you can bring out the best in others, by helping them operate from their Inner Core.
    2. The I|O Change curriculum consists of three modules that guide you on how to use Inner Mastery and Outer Impact skills to shape and drive change from the inside-out. These modules are:
      1. Envision a better world, by stepping back to question social values, beliefs and practices, by being the active conscience of your social environment, and by defining a desired future state for the world.
      2. Building a winning pathway from today to tomorrow, by drawing out the best thinking from yourself and others, bridging divides and finding integrative solutions, and experimenting, iterating, learning and improving on your path to change.
      3. Inspiring people to change, by influence stakeholders to gain their commitment, changing attitudes and behaviors, and knowing when to push, when to pull, when to pause, and when to pivot.

    The training will be delivered using Mentora’s 5 x 20% model, balancing Learning with Reflection, Practice, Application and Learning Groups. The training will begin with a set of core modules that all Fellows will take and then each Fellow will be given the opportunity to design and pursue their own personalized learning path.

    Each Fellow will commit to cultivating change - the principles, the practices, the possibilities – in the interactions they have with the world around them.

    The spring semester of the program will focus on influencing others’ behavior, communicating with impact and storytelling.

    Together we will experiment with intentionally applying the learnings from the program in everyday moments — deepening fellows’ capacities for leading from their inner core and activating the inner core in others.


Youth
Changemaker Fellowship

Fellowship Structure

The Youth Changemaker Fellowship is a 12-14 month fellowship for college students who desire to inspire positive change in the world from the inside-out, by first bringing about change in their own self.

The Fellowship has 3 phases:

  1. A week-long online Fellowship launch in July, 2023. Followed by six weeks of ‘summer intensives’ - remote trainings of 2-3 hours per week.
  2. A commitment of 4-5 hours/week during the Fall and Spring semesters of the academic year.
    • Weekly commitments will include 15-min of daily introspection, weekly learning circle meetings, biweekly coaching conversations, and monthly virtual Fellowship get togethers.
    • Fellows will have 1 presentation to do in early Spring on the evolution of their Change Project.
  3. A two-week, in-person, Summer Capstone hosted at Oxford University. Invitations will depend on semester engagement and completion of programmatic deliverables. Selected participants will receive free room, a meal plan and a limited additional stipend, for a total investment of around $5,000 per participant.

The Fellowship is strongly weighted toward self-reflection, practice, experimentation, and peer-support – with the goal of habit formation, safe experimentation and generating proof-points of early success in one’s inner and outer changemaking work. It involves two components: Training and a Change Project.

  1. LIVING WITH INNER MASTERY

    2. The goal of the training is to develop changemaking skills that will be of lifelong value to Fellows in helping build more principled families, organizations, professions and communities.

    All training will be supported by faculty, coaches and staff of the Mentora Institute.

    This training is based on the Mentora Institute’s Inner Mastery | Outer Impact curriculum developed by Professor Hitendra Wadhwa at Columbia Business School. It draws from a multidisciplinary scientific foundation (psychology, psychotherapy, sociology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and more) and studies of great changemakers and movements across history. It consists of three parts: Inner Mastery, Outer Impact and I|O Change.

    1. The Inner Mastery curriculum helps you bring out the best in yourself by learning to operate from your Inner Core – the space of highest potential within you. At your Core, you are:
      1. Committed a noble purpose and a set of guiding principles
      2. Calm and open to embracing the truth in whatever form it comes
      3. Connected with people, humanity and nature
      4. Curious and open to new learnings and growth
      5. Centered in your tranquil and joyful spirit within
  2. LEADING WITH OUTER IMPACT

    1. The Outer Impact curriculum consists of 25 Actions through which you can bring out the best in others, by helping them operate from their Inner Core.
    2. The I|O Change curriculum consists of three modules that guide you on how to use Inner Mastery and Outer Impact skills to shape and drive change from the inside-out. These modules are:
      1. Envision a better world, by stepping back to question social values, beliefs and practices, by being the active conscience of your social environment, and by defining a desired future state for the world.
      2. Building a winning pathway from today to tomorrow, by drawing out the best thinking from yourself and others, bridging divides and finding integrative solutions, and experimenting, iterating, learning and improving on your path to change.
      3. Inspiring people to change, by influence stakeholders to gain their commitment, changing attitudes and behaviors, and knowing when to push, when to pull, when to pause, and when to pivot.

    The training will be delivered using Mentora’s 5 x 20% model, balancing Learning with Reflection, Practice, Application and Learning Groups. The training will begin with a set of core modules that all Fellows will take and then each Fellow will be given the opportunity to design and pursue their own personalized learning path.

    Each Fellow will commit to cultivating change - the principles, the practices, the possibilities – in the interactions they have with the world around them.

    The spring semester of the program will focus on influencing others’ behavior, communicating with impact and storytelling.

    Together we will experiment with intentionally applying the learnings from the program in everyday moments — deepening fellows’ capacities for leading from their inner core and activating the inner core in others.


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