Key4Life Mentors' Manual
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    • Home
    • KEY4LIFE
      • Background
      • Who's Who
      • Our programmes
    • GETTING STARTED
      • Training /Meet the Mentor
      • Meetings
      • Wheel of Life
      • Boundaries
      • Support for Mentors
    • MOVING FORWARD
      • Finding a job
      • CV
      • Interviews
      • Apprenticeships
    • RISKS
      • Alcohol & Drugs
      • Gangs
      • Child protection
      • Confidentiality
      • Lone workers
      • Aggression in workplace
    • GENERAL
      • Living Skills
      • Housing
      • Health & well being
      • Relationships and family
      • Glossary of terms
      • Policies
      • Procedures and Guidleines
      • Toolkit
Key4Life Mentors' Manual
  • Home
  • KEY4LIFE
    • Background
    • Who's Who
    • Our programmes
  • GETTING STARTED
    • Training /Meet the Mentor
    • Meetings
    • Wheel of Life
    • Boundaries
    • Support for Mentors
  • MOVING FORWARD
    • Finding a job
    • CV
    • Interviews
    • Apprenticeships
  • RISKS
    • Alcohol & Drugs
    • Gangs
    • Child protection
    • Confidentiality
    • Lone workers
    • Aggression in workplace
  • GENERAL
    • Living Skills
    • Housing
    • Health & well being
    • Relationships and family
    • Glossary of terms
    • Policies
    • Procedures and Guidleines
    • Toolkit

Getting started - Wheel of Life / Action Plan

Wheel of Life - What to do

Each segment of the wheel represents one area of your life as it is at the moment. Consider each section – how satisfied are you with these areas of your life? Are you putting as much time, energy and attention into the areas you would like?


The centre of the wheel is 0 and means totally dissatisfied; the outer edge is 10 and represents totally satisfied. Decide on your degree of satisfaction from 0 to 10 and mark it on the relevant spoke of each section. 


Now draw a line to to draw the degree marks together. How balanced is your life? Which areas make you feel happy and fulfilled?Which areas need improvement?It should be easy to set up your goals from this. Ideally, the wheel is steady all the way round.


It is recommended that you redraw your Wheel of Life every 2-3 months to check your progress.

Topics on Wheel of Life expanded

Friends - Are they happy and comfortable with the friends they have? Do they have any friends? 

Family – are they content with their family relationships? 

Leisure time/activities – are they happy with the way they spend their leisure time and the activities they do? 

Home-skills e.g. cooking, cleaning etc – do they feel equipped with enough skills to manage the home situation they are in? 

Accommodation – are they safe and secure in their home situation? 

Health and well-being – health is more than the absence of disease. Are they comfortable in all areas of their health? Do they have any concerns? 

Career/job/education – are they following the career or in the right job/education at the moment? 

Money – do they have enough to live on? Are they in debt? Do they have money concerns? 

Self-fulfilment/giving back – do they feel fulfilled in life? Sometimes this has an element of wanting to give back as well as receive in life. 

Special relationships – are they in a relationship with someone? Do they want to be in a relationship with someone? Are they happy with their current relationship status?


Action Plan

Using the Wheel of Life, identify the 3 main areas to work on with the young man. 


Use the Action Plan Sheet (available to download in Toolkit section) to document these areas and what needs to be done in relation to them. 


It is important to note who is going to be responsible for each area of action. It maybe that the young person will contact the local sports centre – your action might be to see how they got on with it by following up with a text at an agreed time. 

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