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Forming Others: What Mentoring Can and Can't Be
In his address to the Forum's Mentoring Workshop held in June, our Head of Lower School Colin Gleason helpfully reframed just what mentoring is—and what it can't be. Though images of the sculptor, the director, and the master often accompany this rough term of "formation," Mr. Gleason reminds us that we are really more akin to gardeners, who attend to a living creation with its own freedom and will. So, how can we appreciate this situation and best work with it for the good of our mentees?
Chapters:
1:29 Neither the model nor the molder
3:39 We cannot 'do' the formation
5:56 Freedom to choose…
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