What do you perceive to be the difference in roles between a counsellor, a coach and a mentor?
Lest us begin with the similarities of these much valued roles, as all they only serve to improve us as people io our personal capacities, of us as individual people, as persons, as personages, performers, and professional, for instance. Then the role of a mentor first: I understand to be a mentor you need to be like a role model but with an extra capacity for someone to enable them to see themselves in your performance. The relation is based upon close interaction to encourage active observing, following and then participation on part of the learner, for instance, and thereby developing competences and abilities. A coach on the other have would stand prominently aloof to assert his authority and command for a trainee. He would work in the trainee with a view to bring out the best of the potential therein. And a counselor would instead would stand in your shoes in order to see that situations as closely as you see. A counselor would use his empathetic abilities to become a good listene
