I love this book....takes you on an incredible journey and it is tough to put down. The first thing I will mention about the book is that it talks about exploring pathways and the pathways are revealed as one travels. The Mentor is not so much about fixing the road as he or she is in helping the student or learner to become a competent traveler.....Wow.
I'm looking forward to more on this book; I love the idea and practice of mentoring, and when it's done well there are few better ways to help another grow.
ReplyDeleteJeff, glad that you love the book. We are looking forward to hearing more about it!
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Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI am also looking forward to reading your blog! I find mentoring fascinating-I know that I have personally benefited from a mentor.
I might look into a mentoring program for a future certification so am interested in hearing more about this as well. I don't like asking for help and really like to get things done myself, but I know that I could certainly benefit from a mentor, regardless of why they may be my mentor. This will be interesting and hopefully useful. Maybe i'll get past one of my many hangups.
ReplyDeleteAs I come to a close on the whole book blog experience, I will mention that it has all been quite an incredible challenge for me and at times very frustrating. I have needed a Mentor in such an incredible way, lol. I have read everyone else's blogs and I am so very impressed with the whole professionalism and the creative formatting of the blogs, totally makes me realize that I have so very much to learn. And Challenge, although at times may seem to be overwhelming, is really a Beautiful Thing......
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of challenge, Daloz mentions challenge in the book and helped me to view the process of challenge from a very different angle. He talks about how challenge "peels them apart' in referring to the student. "It means opening a distance in the relationship, drawing the student outward to fill the gap, straining him to move, to accommodate his inner structures to the new environment created by the Mentor's distancing." I love this as it reminds me of peeling back the many exterior layers in order to find whats really going on deep within in order to start fresh and begin with the basics. The process of cognitive dissonance and that intrinsic human need to close such a gap in order to harmonize it again with our inner selves is also something Daloz expands on in the book.
One other thing I will mention is just in case other in the Masters Program decide they might want to read the book, it is a very thought provoking read for sure and I feel that when I do decide to read it a second time that I will pick up more enlightening information as it can be quite complex. Daloz's thoughts and ideas expressed I believe are incredibly in-depth and I found myself reading some of those thoughts and ideas twice over in order to really process and synthesize the concept.
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