How does mentoring play a role in a person’s re-discovery of self?
JOAN: Mentoring is very important! You see its powerful results everyday in the way women mentor each other through crisis. We support each other through health issues, divorce, family troubles and the death of loved ones. It helps to understand that at every stage of your life you may serve as someone’s mentor and continue to be mentored by a person who’s further along the path. It’s also important to understand that in order to raise your consciousness to a new level, you’re going to fail and fall back again and again and so are your companions. That’s where a mentor’s support is so valuable! DONNA: Do you see women embracing mentoring? JOAN: I do. Women are coming together in supportive, consciousness-raising relationships through book clubs and health-related movements, such the Komen Race for the Cure. In these types of settings, you have a good opportunity to connect with someone who shares your sensibilities and is open to mentoring. That can mean the person is willing to share
