Mentoring
You need a mentor... here’s why:
There is such incredible value in learning from someone who has experienced a bit more life than you, someone who has been where you are and has the humility and wisdom to share, someone who wants to encourage you and honestly wants the best for you! Having a mentor is a huge opportunity to learn and grow and become more.
It’s common for us MKs to have so many paths and decisions before us, and it’s easy to feel alone, misunderstood, or like we’re meant to “figure it out on our own." The presence of a caring, compassionate, and Christ-like mentor in our life, can have a huge positive impact! You’ll be surprised to see how encouraged and enriched you are as you share life with a mentor.
What does it look like?
Great question. Mentoring can happen online or in-person. Often it's online, and simply looks like hopping on a Facetime or WhatsApp video call with your mentor once a month for an hour to connect, encourage, and process whatever is going on in your life.
Being mentored means saying, “I want to learn from a mentor's experience, and honestly share with them what’s going on in my life.”
What sort of commitment is it?
Your relationship with your Mentor can go for a season – like the 3-5 years you're in college/uni, it could be for a year, or could be life-long.
It's really up to you and your mentor. Sometimes you or your mentor will need to take a break because life happens (exam season, life-changes/moves, new family members, etc.) so you get to work together to find a rhythm that works.
Is there a cost involved?
Yes, but not financially. Mentoring will cost you some time and energy, but is totally worth it! Mentors are using their time to be with you, and you do the same. It's a worthwhile investment.
I'm interested in being mentored
A mentor can make all the difference.
Becoming a mentor isn’t complicated, but it is costly: it requires availability, accountability, and adaptability. Being a mentor is about being present, having good listening skills and the humility to offer our own life experience for the mentee to learn from.
On a regular basis you as a mentor make room in your life to listen and care for a mentee. You get to open up with vulnerability and say, “Here are all the ways I’ve failed, and some of the ways I’ve succeeded; take whatever is helpful!”
Mentoring can have more of an advising/coaching dynamic to it, it can be for a specific aspect of life (i.e. relationships, business, education, etc.), or it can simply be a deep and consistent friendship of intentionality and building one another up.”
I'm interested in being a mentor