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Here are some practical points about mentoring - excerpted from the Mentor application
What mentoring is:
Supportive spiritual friendship, like a big brother or sister
Additional support for those already working with teachers in private sessions
A way to practice, to learn more deeply about whole-being listening to self and others
An opportunity to practice mutuality and coconut yoga
A formal relationship of service to the other that also helps you understand yourself and the other as mystery
An extremely valuable part of the mentor training that evokes latent parts of yourself you might not otherwise discover, both light and shadow
A chance to work with a team of other awakened beings serving aspirants
A chance to begin clarifying your general direction and purpose in life
A way to learn close at hand the workings of the human body-mind and the unfolding of our spiritual process
A place to share your own experience as relevant to the mentee’s process
Part of teacher training
What mentoring isn’t:
Mentoring is not teaching
Not holding primary responsibility for an aspirant’s process
Not a place to take over the other person’s process through directives, advice-giving, or interpretations
Not a way to feel good at the expense of the other
Not a place to operate outside mutuality following your own agenda
Who it’s for:
Those who feel the heart desire to serve others
Those who themselves feel ready to be a mentor and their teacher is in agreement
Those who have received constructive feedback from their mutuality group and Small Group Teacher all confirming their readiness to apply for mentor
Those who have no doubt about their awakening; or if doubts exist, those who use them as gateways and work regularly with their teachers until clarity stabilizes
Signs of readiness to be a mentor:
Clear recognition of the desire to serve others in this way as a mentor
Willingness to adhere to the ethics policies
A sufficient level of stability so that mentor’s personal process doesn’t get in the way of supporting others. Ask your small group teacher to clarify greenlighting yourself versus holding the tension in relationships
Working on whole-being listening skills, listening deeply to self and others
Giving sensitive reflection to mentee
Capacity to see both the divinity and the brokenness in yourself and others
Ability and willingness to receive and to give feedback to peers, and with teachers, and in your support group
Ability and willingness to say, "I don't know", when the situation or question is too advanced and to refer the mentee to their teacher for support
Willingness to notice when you are projecting feelings or judgments on the mentee, and to explore what that means about you, the mentor (including getting help with this as needed)
Whole being patience, feeling the tension, ability to hold space through discomfort, conflict, nothing appearing to be happening (boredom)
Confidence in one’s awakening
Real understanding and ability to enter coconut yoga when called for
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