{"id":68,"date":"2011-07-20T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-02-19T01:33:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:33:06","slug":"preparing-for-a-mentoring-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for a mentoring session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six practical steps to take in preparing for a mentoring session.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Keep a confidential file with material relating to your mentoree secure and up to date. Some mentors keep a journal for each mentoree.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Keep notes on each session including key life events, areas to work on, progress on objectives, accountabilities, prayer points, things to follow up.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Prepare for each session by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">prayerfully<\/span> reviewing the file or journal. Be conscious of the privilege and responsibility of mentoring. Note any specific questions you might ask, pastoral issues you might follow up.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Revisit each objective specifically and consider resources or exercises that might be helpful for the person in their personal, leadership and spiritual development.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Prepare your notes for the day ahead of time with space for life update, emerging issues, objectives, accountabilities and follow up.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">At the conclusion of the session review your notes, enter any commitments into your diary, note anything to follow up with your supervisor and file them away. If you are keeping a journal for the mentoree, journal the day&#8217;s activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six practical steps to take in preparing for a mentoring session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentoring-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}