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Alvaro de Vicente on Conversation: The Medium of Mentoring
The art of mentoring is not just for teachers and coaches, but also parents—who can never really be out of mentoring mode.
In a recent Substack article, Alvaro de Vicente named five pitfalls for our attempts at mentoring young men. This week, he talks us through some of the takeaways, reminding us that mentoring is not a profound lecture but an ongoing conversation, and the goal is not to modify but to form.
Chapters:
3:49 What mentoring is
4:35 Conversation as the basis
8:55 Parents: always in mentor mode
10:13 Presence over "meaningful content"
16:01 Weighty conversations
18:25 Daily…
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