Mentorship
Guiding your growth & unlocking your full potential
Disconnect offers a range of mentoring packages designed to build resilience, life skills, and emotional regulation in young people. Typically, these include outdoor survival training—like shelter building, fire making, and navigation—alongside physical activities such as hiking, boxing, and team challenges. The mentoring also emphasizes mental health awareness, fostering trust through open conversations, and encouraging personal growth. Packages can be tailored for short-term intensives (like a weekend wild camping trip) or longer-term mentorship, spanning several months with regular sessions and follow-ups.
Essentially, it's a blend of adventure-based learning and therapeutic support, designed to help each young person reach their full potential.
Disconnect’s mentoring programs are rooted in an experiential learning philosophy that harnesses the transformative power of nature and group dynamics. By immersing young people in scenarios such as night navigation and outdoor shelters, mentors can weave in key lessons about self-reliance, decision-making, and confidence-building. That hands-on approach not only cultivates survival know-how, but also nurtures perseverance, adaptability, and teamwork—capabilities that translate directly into improved focus and resilience in everyday life.
The program also integrates reflective practices such as debriefing sessions and goal-setting workshops. These moments create space for participants to process their experiences, identify personal strengths, and establish realistic growth paths. Combined with emotional regulation tools—like mindfulness exercises and stress-reduction techniques—this creates a foundation for long-term mental wellbeing and self-awareness.
Mentors undergo thorough training not only in outdoor skills but also in trauma-informed care, safeguarding, communication, and motivational coaching. Ensuring a safe, supportive, and structured environment allows young people to take healthy risks,
confront personal barriers, and discover new capacities within themselves. Wherever possible, family or community engagement is incorporated, offering continuity beyond the adventure itself and reinforcing lessons learned in natural settings.
Over a sustained mentorship period, young people often demonstrate marked improvements: higher self-esteem, better emotional control, expanded social skills, and more clarity around personal goals. Whether through a weekend wilderness excursion or a multi-month mentorship journey, Disconnect aims to empower each young person to face challenges head-on, connect with purpose, and step confidently into their future.
Why This Matters:
Research from organisations like the Youth Futures Foundation shows that mentoring and coaching - even when scaled moderately - have a positive impact on youth employment readiness and emotional well-being.
Simultaneously, programmes that couple real-world challenges with emotional support by using outdoor activities to address behavior and confidence issues have yielded solid outcomes in re-engagement and resilience .
By emphasizing both tangible outdoor skill-building and emotional development, Disconnect aligns with proven approaches for creating meaningful change in young lives.
The combination of safe but challenging adventure, structured reflection, and trusted mentorship is a powerful formula for transformation.
