Pass on your lived experience in monthly mentoring
Whenyou reach your agreed monthly conversation
Arrange three monthly conversations with a willing adult who wants experience you can offer. Ask what they are facing. Share one relevant experience, including what went wrong. Let them choose what is useful; return next month to hear what happened.
Start tiny
Have one agreed ten-minute conversation.
When it slips
Offer experience before instructions. They get to choose their own next step.
SafetyAgree boundaries and privacy. Stay within your experience; do not offer professional advice you are not qualified to give.
Editorial adult peer-mentoring practice informed by MENTOR, The Wisdom of Age: A Handbook for Staff, relationship skills section. Read the source ↗ — Source concerns youth mentoring. Listening and voluntary advice are adapted here for adults; this schedule and identity-growth purpose are untested.
Mastery: Inspect your work, apply a specific correction in later practice and check whether it helped.
