Some time ago now, my own mentor encouraged me to look for opportunities to pass on any learning and experience that I have gained from intentionally mentoring guys up and down the country, over the last 6 years.
I have been able to do a significant amount of this through the mentoring training days that I have been involved with for the last 18 months, in partnership with the Sophia Network and CPAS, but last week was an incredibly powerful and strategic time when, together with my friend and colleague, Sharon Prior, I led the first ever Christian Mentoring and Coaching course, at Cliff College, Derbyshire...
Nineteen students attended the course, with a good mix of ages and sexes. We had a real diverse bunch of folk, from a Nigerian Bishop to a car mechanic from Jersey, together with a cross section of youth workers, church leaders and others who have simply caught the vision of investing in a few for the sake of the many. It was awesome.
Through formal lectures, tutorials and seminars we unpacked together matters like:
The Biblical basis of mentoring
Mentoring through the Arts
The Spirituality of the Mentor
Asking Good Questions
Action Planning
Passing on the Baton
The feedback has been great and we have been invited by the College to run two weeks next year, possibly with one of them in London, but also to work on a postgraduate certificate for 2012. If you would be interested in any of these courses, please do get in touch with me.
My overall impression of last week is that 19 people went away envisioned and inspired to roll out the vision for mentoring and coaching in their own contexts, but reassured, too, that it is not so much about any skills or knowledge that they have acquired, but more about their heartfelt desire to see the lives of believers dynamically changed through a mentoring approach to discipleship, thereby building missional church and helping to usher in the Kingdom of God.
The Biblical basis of mentoring
Mentoring through the Arts
The Spirituality of the Mentor
Asking Good Questions
Action Planning
Passing on the Baton
The feedback has been great and we have been invited by the College to run two weeks next year, possibly with one of them in London, but also to work on a postgraduate certificate for 2012. If you would be interested in any of these courses, please do get in touch with me.
My overall impression of last week is that 19 people went away envisioned and inspired to roll out the vision for mentoring and coaching in their own contexts, but reassured, too, that it is not so much about any skills or knowledge that they have acquired, but more about their heartfelt desire to see the lives of believers dynamically changed through a mentoring approach to discipleship, thereby building missional church and helping to usher in the Kingdom of God.
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