CIMER provides trainings for individuals, institutions, and organizations across the country to optimize research mentoring relationships. Our process begins with helping you understand and assess the full mentorship landscape at your organization with an initial consultation. From there, we work collaboratively to clarify your goals and recommend solutions that can include:
- Facilitating research mentor and mentee training for mentees and mentors at all career stages and across disciplines
- Facilitating train the trainer programs for implementation at host institutions
- Facilitating program development workshops to be implemented with trainees
- Leading workshops to develop evaluations for research training courses or programs.
For current and future dates and register for an open training, visit the News and Events page.
Training for Mentors and Mentees
Entering Mentoring
Evidence-based, interactive approach designed to help mentors improve their mentoring relationships.
Audience: mentors of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or faculty working with trainees across disciplines
Related Curricula: Complete mentor curricula, custom mentor curricula
Format: Online up to 24 participants and in person up to 32 participants. Privately hosted and publicly hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing 
Mentoring Up
An interactive learning approach designed for post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty to develop skills to proactively manage their mentoring relationships.
Audience: Post-docs and junior faculty
Related Curricula: Mentoring Up (integrates topics for Entering Research and Entering Mentoring)
Format: Online up to 24 participants and in person up to 32 participants. Privately hosted by an organization.
Cost: See pricing
Culturally Aware Mentoring
This full-day advanced workshop will equip you with skills to address cultural differences within research mentoring relationships by increasing your personal cultural awareness and applying evidence-based strategies to increase and culturally aware mentoring behaviors.
Audience: Faculty member, instructor, or administrator currently mentoring any career stage
Format: Online and in person up to 30 participants. Privately hosted and publicly hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing
Facilitator Training
Entering Mentoring Facilitator Training
This training is offered as a two-day in person workshop as well as a six-session online workshop designed to increase the capacity for research mentor trainings offered at colleges and universities, research institutes, and organizations. Trainings are typically offered on line January, February, March and in person in the spring and summer months.
Audience: Faculty, instructors, staff, or administrators who are committed to implementing research mentor training
Related Curricula: Complete mentor curricula and custom mentor curricula (available in MyCIMER). Entering Mentoring books.
Format: Online up to 24 participants and in person up to 32 participants. Privately hosted and publicly hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing
Culturally Aware Mentoring Facilitator Training
This train-the-trainer workshop is designed for those who want to implement the Culturally Aware Mentoring workshop at their institution or organization. Trainings are typically offered once per year and open to individuals that meet the pre-requisite.
Audience: Faculty, instructors, staff, or administrators who are interested in implementing Culturally Aware Mentor training.
Pre-requisite: Culturally Aware Mentor Training and either Entering Mentoring facilitator training or experience leading culturally responsive inclusion workshops.
Format: In person, publicly hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing
Program Development Offerings
Research Program Curriculum Development Institute
This workshop is designed for leaders of research training programs (undergraduate or graduate) who want to build and deliver a customized workshop or course for their research trainees.
Audience: Training program directors, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, instructors, staff, or administrators who are committed to implementing research mentee training courses, seminars, or workshops at their institution or organization
Related Curricula: Complete mentee curriculum and custom mentee curriculum (available in MyCIMER). Entering Research book.
Format: Online and in person. Privately hosted and publicly hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing
Evaluating Research Course or Program Workshop
This is a 1-day, 8-hour interactive workshop offered in person at UW-Madison focused on developing evaluation plans for research training courses or programs.
Audience: Current and former participants in the Entering Mentoring Facilitator Training or Entering Research Facilitator Training and Curriculum Development Institute are invited to attend an additional workshop focused on developing evaluation plans for research training courses or programs
Format: In person hosted by CIMER.
Cost: See pricing
Request a Private Training or Service from CIMER
If you are interested in hosting a private training at your organization or another service, please contact CIMER as soon as possible by completing the service request form below to check on your date availability (availability may be 6-8 months due to high demand). CIMER staff will reach out to schedule a short consultation meeting if needed to review your goals, pricing, availability and scope of work.
Interested in Attending a CIMER-Hosted Workshop for Individuals?
Submit an interest form to join the listservs below:
Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM)
Culturally Aware Mentoring Facilitator Training (CAMFT)
Entering Mentoring Facilitator Trianing (EMFT)
Research Program Curriculum Development Institute (ERCDI)
Disclaimer: Registration is first come first served, unless otherwise noted. If the workshop is full, you will see a message to add yourself to the waitlist on the payment site and will be contacted if a spot opens up. No more than three participants will be accepted from the same institution for the individual workshops and 3-5 for teams workshops.