All Mentoring articles – Page 3
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: Would you rather?
Mentoring is a game of give and take - it’s offering wisdom and sharing but also probing and nudging your mentee. Try a round of ‘Would you rather?’ to open up discussions. Allow them to ask you some too, because when you are both offering insight it becomes a two-way relationship. Steer the session towards things that may open useful or deeper conversations. Here’s some ideas but do share your best ones with us!
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: Three Persons…
Years ago, someone set up a ‘prayer tent’ in our Sunday service and I felt God speak to me quite clearly, and quite profoundly. As I lay on my back in the small tent, I looked up and saw that the pattern of the material as it joined at the peak was a small square with an ‘X’ through it (as the illustration demonstrates).
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Taking Stock
A few years ago, the Anglican church I was working for wanted to extend the building out and add a café.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Self-reflection
Last week I broke my collarbone by coming off my bike during a triathlon in the Peak District. As far as my fitness plans went this was a curve ball: any plans for competing in other events went out the window. I was disappointed, annoyed and physically in pain.
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IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: The third person
Seeing things from an outside perspective can be a real benefit to achieving progress, insight, and hopefully change. When you are in the thick of things yourself it can be really hard to see the obvious mistakes you are making or understand anyone else’s point of view.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Word of the Year
January should be the official mentoring month! New Year is a key season for appraising the previous year and setting goals for the coming 12 months. It’s also a time that often results in frustration, and even guilt, when a few weeks later, good intentions fall by the wayside and healthy habits are already broken. Here are some ideas to support your young people through it this year:
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Are you talking to yourself?
I was mentoring a musician this week who has a new single called ‘Victorious’. It’s about overcoming tough things that stand in your way and hold you back (in her case, dyslexia). In the same breath as telling me about the song, she was complaining about the problems she encountered in releasing the single, before she had a light bulb moment: she wasn’t following her own advice! She needed to resist the temptation to give up, and show more resilience and determination if she was to be victorious over setbacks and discouragement. She needed to live what she was preaching and remind herself of the facts, rather than listening to doubts.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Resolutions
One of the few preaches that has really stuck with me over the years is from my childhood, and annoyingly for me back then, it was from my dad! He said, ‘This January, don’t make resolutions, make resolve.’ What he meant was: don’t create destinations that you may or may not reach; don’t set yourself up for a fall, rather build roads for yourself to travel along as far as you can.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring:Role Reversal
This week I went for a walk with a young guy in the Peak District near Sheffield. He grew up in the youth group I used to run and has since moved away, but during the holidays, he made the effort to come up and spend time with me.
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