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Looking For Mentorship? Consider This Alternative
No matter your age or level of experience, finding impactful mentorship is unquestionably valuable. Additionally, few would argue that being a mentor is also a hugely rewarding endeavor.
The question, “How do I find a mentor?” is age-old, and a frequent (and sometimes annoying) reply is, “When the student is ready, the teacher emerges.” Perhaps true, but what if we began to look at mentorship differently and flipped our current understanding of it’s set-up?
I invite you to consider co-mentorship, which is something in which I engaged recently.
What I mean is that my mentor partner and I mentor one another. After casually getting to know each other, we saw in one another strengths which the other desired to learn. It’s a mutual relationship of give and take.
I was looking to learn about digital marketing strategy and copywriting, and she had that experience in spades. She sought to learn about growing and scaling her startup, which I’ve done a couples times over. Thus, what began as a long-distance friendship, populated by random and infrequent phone calls or emails, turned into a mutual decision to pour into each other.
So, how do you find, and then engage in, a meaningful co-mentoring relationship?
