The migration path tool gives foreign-born people a bird’s eye perspective of the migration path and their integration process. The tool visually illustrates how the roadmap might look like when trying to reach goals. It also shows the path that has been followed and highlights what has already been achieved. Because the tool is graphic, it helps the mentee and the mentor to make a plan together, and the drawing of the path creates an overview, shows patterns, and minimises the need for writing. By drawing it together with the individual, it helps her visualise what to expect and can show if an expectation is unrealistic. It also shows that the path might be long and illustrates where attention needs to be for the best next step. The positive takeaway from using such a tool is that the mentor and the mentee are able to come up with a plan which is realistic, as it stimulates dialogue about the goals they want to achieve and what it will take to get there.

This activity will motivate the mentees to think about questions concerning their life, wishes, and goals and reflect on what is going well and what could be improved. It is the first step in establishing what the mentees want out of their life and establishing what a good life, success, and happiness mean for them personally. The questions they are supposed to answer shall invite and motivate them to think about their life, their views on a good life more generally, and their personal situation more specifically.

This activity shall help participants to identify their own traits, be aware about their strengths, highlight those, and motivate them to think about their own traits and abilities in positive rather than negative terms.
After the mentor circles, participants can also ask friends or family to describe them and include those to the list of traits.

This activity will help participants to clearly illustrate their life experiences with the help of the lifeline exercise. The line itself represents a neutral ground from which the participants can draw in positive and negative experiences above or below the line, respectively, and write down specifically why something was negative or positive. This can help enable the participant to reflect on their life experiences, view the direction of their lives in an illustrated way and help them to direct their next choices and their life.

This activity shall help the participants to be aware of and state their skills and capabilities in order to support their learning goals. Moreover, it shall aid the mentees in connecting their skills with capabilities that are often sought after in the job market and/or with their current work tasks. This can also help make the job market look less daunting, where any participant can find something that works with their skills and capabilities.

This activity shall motivate the participants to reflect on what drives them within different areas of life. These reflections and the exercise of the Driving Force Icon shall help the participants to discover what drives them to work and, in effect, the career pattern they have that shall aid in their goal setting and specification of what they want from a job.

In this tool, the mentee writes the different aspects of her life on a balance beam: activities that take effort and/or cause stress and activities that offer support and reduce stress. The beam represents the resilience of the mentee. With this exercise, the mentee can explore if his resilience is strong enough to take on another stressor (in this case, language learning) and how to support it.

By writing a postcard/letter to their future selves, mentees become aware of their aspirations and realise how studies can help in achieving their life goals. This activity also offers unique and personal feedback. The goal is to motivate mentees to plan their futures and achieve their goals.

With this questionnaire, the adult learner can get an insight into how much 'weight' or stressors are present in her life. This tool can help her decide if she is able to take on a language-learning course and if she needs support or counselling during the course.

To motivate the participants to reflect upon their present situation, various areas of life, and to what extent they are satisfied with each of these areas. Based on these reflections, the participants should prioritise one or two areas in their life to work on and improve by identifying and understanding the driving force of their values and motivations, setting specific goals and focus points for their future lives. A clear view of which areas in life need attention and change makes the accomplishment of the change wanted - and seeking it - more accessible.

The aim of this exercise is to make your goals smart, to become aware of why you want to aim at that specific goal, and the effect that the achievement of this goal will have on you. This exercise will motivate you in the process of reaching that goal.
Fill in the table below. Follow the guiding questions. Use the example from the handout to get inspiration and to guide you.