What is a co-mentoring group?
Co-mentoring arrangements are small groups of women with similar interests and concerns, who agree to form a network to communicate among themselves about the topics they wish to discuss. This arrangement combines elements of a discussion list with elements of peer counseling. Members form a group list in the address books on their own computers, and send messages to the entire group. (Note that this is not a public discussion list, but a private list run entirely by the members of the group.) While one person clearly has to take the initiative in starting a co-mentoring group (see the next item for more on this), it doesn’t necessarily have to have a leader, unless that’s something the initiator specifically includes in the initial description of the group. Co-mentoring groups have some different advantages from one-on-one mentoring. Sometimes in a one-on-one mentoring partnership, for example, one party might get busy and not be able to respond to a question immediately. In a co-ment
