Training Overview

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.

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 junior 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 external link

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 external link

Culturally Aware Mentoring

This full-day advanced workshop will equip you with skills to address cultural diversity 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 external link

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, 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 external link

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 external link

Program Development Offerings

Entering Research Curriculum Development Workshop

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 external link

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 external link

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)

Entering Research 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.