If you care about your mentee—and most mentors do—it can be hard to accept how little control you actually have. You may see potential they don’t see yet. You may hope they’ll choose differently, try ...
It’s easy to imagine mentoring as a series of meaningful conversations that lead to clear turning points. Sometimes that happens. More often, mentoring feels slower. The same topics come up again. Pro...
There are moments in tutoring, regardless of experience level, when it’s hard to tell whether anything is changing. Sessions continue. Time is spent together. And yet the markers we tend to look for, ...
If you’ve been mentoring for any length of time, you may recognize the quiet days. You show up ready to talk, to encourage, maybe to help sort something out, and instead, the conversation feels flat. ...
If you’re new to tutoring, it’s easy to assume that a “good” session follows a clear plan. You prepare the materials. You review what you’re supposed to cover. You arrive hoping things will flow. And ...
Mentor Tips is a reflective blog series created for mentors serving through nonprofit- and church-based programs. This series centers relationship over technique and presence over performance, recogni...
