Forming Others: What Mentoring Can and Can't Be
In his address to the Forum\u2019s Mentoring Workshop held in June, our Head of Lower School Colin Gleason helpfully reframed just what mentoring is\u2014and what it can\u2019t be. Though images of the sculptor, the director, and the master often accompany this rough term of \u201cformation,\u201d 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 \u2018do\u2019 the formation
- 5:56 Freedom to choose the good
- 10:19 \u201cThou mayest\u201d (not thou shalt) \u201ctriumph over sin\u201d
- 15:54 Exercising freedom requires formation
- 16:49 Manners: what the act looks like
- 18:57 Reasons: the intention behind the act
- 21:38 Images: how a person chooses the act
- 23:36 A mentor as such an image
- 25:49 Loving the good
- 29:51 Loving the person
- He Knows Not How: Growing in Freedom by Julio Di\xe9guez
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Man\u2019s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Ben Hogan\u2019s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan
- InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives by Joe Ehrmann
- Seeing Our Boys with Loving Eyes: Not Projects but Persons featuring Tom Royals
- Why Boys Need Mentors featuring Joe Cardenas and Alex Berth\xe9