Merge pull request #68 from nmfs-openscapes/coach-2025

add group coaching 2025

_quarto.yml

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ website:
       - section: mentors/index.qmd
         text: Mentors Community
         contents: 
-          - href: mentors/activities.html#october-december-2023-nmfs-mentors-cohort
-            text: Fall 2023 cohort         
+          - href: mentors/activities.html#winter-2025-group-coaching
+            text: Winter 2025 Group Coaching  
           - href: mentors/activities.html#previous-activities
             text: Previous activities
           - href: mentors/mentor-calls.qmd

mentors/activities.qmd

@@ -2,14 +2,20 @@
 title: "Current Activities"
 ---
 
-## Summer-Fall 2024
+## Winter 2025 Group Coaching
 
-To kick off Mentors activities, we will focus on preparing for and leading three fall Champions Cohorts. Immediate activities will include scheduling and communicating the opportunity with colleagues, including sending emails, giving talks, ask-me-anythings, and helping folks sign up.
+The NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors Winter 2025 skillbuilding activities kick off in January with group coaching with Tara Robertson! "Mentoring with a Coach Approach" will be a 5-session Mentor Calls takeover Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 pm PT on January 15, 29, February 12, 26, and March 12. 
 
-[Kickoff slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a_nDKAxpvaWURITBm_HiDvzCd7GLDmb8ooi-d0dRI5I/edit#slide=id.g28f9ffc64ff_0_0)
+What to expect? See [How coaching skills have made us better open data science mentors](https://openscapes.org/blog/2023-05-17-mentor-coach/index.html) a May 2023 blog post and [Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11341), Lowndes et al. 2024 *Ecol & Evol* where previous cross-agency Openscapes Mentors shared about the real change they are making in their work and communities.
 
 ## Previous Activities
 
+### Summer-Fall 2024
+
+To kick off Mentors activities, we will focus on preparing for and leading three fall Champions Cohorts. Immediate activities will include scheduling and communicating the opportunity with colleagues, including sending emails, giving talks, ask-me-anythings, and helping folks sign up.
+
+[Kickoff slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a_nDKAxpvaWURITBm_HiDvzCd7GLDmb8ooi-d0dRI5I/edit#slide=id.g28f9ffc64ff_0_0)
+
 ### October-December 2023: NMFS Mentors Cohort!
 
 <!--- **Please join us: nominate yourself in [this Google Form](https://forms.gle/LJF9gTZCX7ThTzSm9) by Sept 23!**