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Allow mentees to book a recurring meeting

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Himesh Patel

Right now, mentees are only able to book one meeting at a time with a mentor. It would be helpful for mentees to be able to book a recurring meeting if both parties have decided they would like a more longer term relationship.

Ex. book a meeting for Wednesday, 5pm every 2 weeks.

January 16, 2023

Felix Lee

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We're thrilled to announce that Longer-Term Mentorship is now live to set up recurring! 🎉 Read more: https://blog.adplist.org/post/introducing-longer-term-mentorship

Alix Lucas

Yes, agreed, that would be a great feature. I am meeting my mentee once a week, and that would be easier for us to track our sessions.

Felix Lee

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We're moving this to planned, so it's going to come as our team is aware of this 😊!

Wes Nderi

Merged in a post:

Add recurring meetings

Zoe Glas

Sometimes, I really bond with a mentee and we want to be able to continue to meet on a regular basis (e.g. every 2 weeks, every month). I end up moving these off the platform, which is a bummer because I like having everything in ADP. Manually scheduling them is a pain, especially with the 1 month max to manually schedule ahead.

Recurring would be great!

February 16, 2023

Stevanus Satria

As a mentor myself, I find this feature to be a double-edged sword.
A recurring meeting encourages a mindset of "do it once and forget". It may open up a can of worms containing problems like double booking/insufficient slots, last minute cancellations, and wasted meetings due to lack of agenda. It also induces an obligatory feel to mentorship; that I have to always, at all times, make this time of my day free, similar to work. I prefer meetings to be deliberate, and there's always the chat avenue for mentors to reach out to mentees for another round of conversation.
If there's a downvote button I'd have downvotted this feature request, but since there's none I thought I'd leave a comment here to express my counterarguments.

Ryan Loomis

Stevanus Satria: As a fellow mentor, I completely agree with your comments, and if it became a feature, I wouldn't use it. Mentees should be very intentional with mentors' time, and I feel that clicking a button once to book recurring bookings begins gives a mentee less incentive to be proactive with setting agendas and leading discussions.

Dave Montrose

Yes 1000% upvote for this. Not really a

mentoring

platform if it only accommodates one-off meetings 😄