New Service - Mentoring Adults and Youth

Finding Your Path to Mission

I am excited to enter a new level of mentoring! I've been asked on occasion to mentor individuals and feel I am ready to open my services to more individuals. My website with more information will be coming soon!

Mentoring Adults
My experience with mentoring adults largely revolves around helping people over come conveyor-belt hangovers. Simply put, it is challenging to overcome our conditioning of the conveyor-belt education most of us had to thinking like a mentor. This takes time and practice. Having a mentor helps to redirect thinking into the right path through a weekly check-in call and personalized mentoring feedback.

In addition to mentoring personal calls via phone or Skype, I provide some direction and focus through exercises meant to help the student/mentee find their Mission and the path to Mission. I do not profess to know another person's Mission. Not at all. However, I provide a sounding board for ideas, plans, and classics to help you on your way.

I am not a fit for every person. If you would like a consultation about what I might be able to help you with, please feel free to email me here. Some areas I offer are:

• Support in learning and implementing the 8 Keys of Great Teaching.
• Ideas for implementing the Ingredients for Success.
• Coaching for jumping off and staying off the Conveyor-belt and thinking like a Mentor.
• Determining Phase of Learning level.
• Help in planning home culture that supports family work, creates an environment to Inspire, and a path to personal success.

Mentoring Youth
I have mentored my own youth for the past seven years. I have one adult child at college who is in Scholar Phase and was also public schooled. She is studying to be a Pharmacist. My second child is 17 and transitioning from Self-Directed to Mentored Scholar. She attends part-time college online at BYU-I and will begin her second year there this Fall. My youngest is 15 and transitioning between Practice and Project Scholar. He loves anything technology based and has his own online business.

I provide the same type of service for youth to help them determine what phase they are in and point them towards the Path to Mission. This service is not intended to take the place of Parent Mentoring, but to provide a different level of Mentoring to help those new to Leadership Education provide an outside mentor while the parents get themselves more education on how to be a mentor.

Types of Mentoring
For more information on the types of Formal Mentors please see the book "Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens" pages 49-50:

1. Coach
2. Facilitator
3. Leader
4. Manager
5. Advocate
6. Guide

More information will be coming soon about the various types of Formal Mentors and how I may be able to help you and/or your young adult. See our Mentoring Services page for more information.

Need more information? Go here to send me an email.

 

Father, Husband, Mentor

Every six months we re-write our Compass as part of our Six Month Inventory, Six Month Purge, and Six Month "No". These three six month activities help us to reorganize our time and efforts. Mike is taking a major role in our weekly Mentor Meetings (also know as FEC - Family Executive Council) and wrote his own Compass as well. I am very happy to see the entire family working together in our education efforts.

I mention this about my husband, because it has been a long time in coming. He has always been supportive of what I have wanted to implement and has always helped me to carry out our schedules and plans. That said, he has not always been super involved in a "hands-on" way. I could tell it made a difference for all of us, my son especially, to see him participate and join in doing the Compass exercise as well.