I've come to see mentoring as a framework that helps facilitate a certain kind of relationship. A relationship between two people that are at different places on a very long journey. It isn't that the Mentors journey is a map for the Mentee but the mentor has the maturity to recognise the terrain that the mentee is walking through and has the wisdom to ask the questions that guides them through the dangers, helps them embrace the opportunities, provokes courage in the face of adversity and in so doing begins to tap into potential that may have otherwise never been realised. The mentor's distance from the mentee provides a safe and reflective place to process the events of the journey and to lift their heads to survey the horizon. Something easily forgotten