Mentoring

About

Mentoring is a crucial component of independent facilitation, serving as a valuable resource that helps less experienced facilitators internalize essential values and principles through meaningful dialogue with seasoned mentors. This dynamic relationship allows mentees to gain insights into change and develop the capacities needed for effective work within complex family dynamics.

Moreover, mentoring is an ongoing practice that emphasizes continuous professional development, with even experienced mentors seeking guidance to foster their own growth. This perpetual exchange strengthens the mentor-mentee relationship, ensuring that the practice remains accountable, grounded, and sustainable in the face of its inherently solitary nature.

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Benefits

 

  • People benefit by knowing that they are free to explore their thoughts and feelings without other people probing or asking them questions. 
  • People gain inner clarity as they speak because there is no crosstalk or interruptions from others. 

    People are able to make meaning of their experience because they are able to focus on themselves. They have a safe and encouraging space to explore their thoughts and feelings about things that matter to them.  
  • While people are listening they gain a rich appreciation of how their experiences differ or are similar, to others. It offers a unique opportunity to reflect and gain insight.
  • People learn and gain courage from one another. 
  • People can more easily identify strategies and next steps for their own development.
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Testimonials

“I now understand how I need to step back, as my daughter’s voice. I want to shift my imagination from pushing her into a stage of life, to helping her find her way.”

—Navigating the Journey to Adulthood participant

“The insights I have gained are truly valuable in the sense that I now understand that the difficult questions and conversations must take place, regardless of how difficult they are.  If they feel so difficult that they keep us awake at night, sweeping them under the rug, only makes the problems worse.  By having the dedicated conversations in a safe way, we began to realize a relief, beyond our imaginations.”

—Fostering Conversations that Matter participant

“I was moved by the complex understanding of what my daughter has experienced as an individual, and how she has been put in the space of not being heard/seen/listened to, and how this has affected her ability to be empowered, experience growth, and individuate from me, as her mother.” 

—Navigating the Journey to Adulthood participant

“Judith explains her understanding to others, in a way which, in itself, makes one 'think' differently."

—Conscious Listening and Speaking participant

“This course just opened my eyes to how easy it is for us as we go through life, putting our leisure on the side burner, because we are caught up in excuses, and that feeling of guilt for doing what we love.”

—Developing Leisure Identities participant

“I think the thing that really struck me, was being actually heard. I have to think about that some more, but the experience really is validating. It makes you almost feel more real. I felt something new.”

—Conscious Listening and Speaking participant

“The materials in her mindfulness course were invaluable and the conversations were rich, and allowed for a deepening understanding of how mindful practice can enrich your life and ground the work we strive for as Independent facilitators.”

—Mindfulness participant

“The materials in her mindfulness course were invaluable and the conversations were rich, and allowed for a deepening understanding of how mindful practice can enrich your life and ground the work we strive for as Independent facilitators.”

—Developing Leisure Identities participant

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