Mentoring

What is Mentoring?

Mentoring is a spacious, intentional relationship that supports your growth toward deeper self-awareness, integrity, and maturity in life and vocation. It is not about quick answers or linear goals, it is about becoming: gently, slowly, and with intention.

We attend to the whole of life, with a particular sensitivity to your inner formation, how you are being shaped, stretched, and invited.

It is a space for:

• Clarifying values and purpose

• Navigating personal or vocational transitions

• Exploring faith, identity, and meaning

• Strengthening confidence and agency

• Listening for the voice of Wisdom in your life

• Developing resilience, boundaries, and spiritual practices

In a world that fragments, mentoring invites us to the practice of re-membering ourselves.

My Role as a Mentor

As a mentor, I offer you a space that is prayerful, safe, and spacious. I come not as a teacher with all the answers, but as a companion with lived experience who listens deeply, holds what is sacred, and invites you to trust your own knowing.

I bring:

• Deep presence and reflective listening

• Encouragement and challenge when needed

• Ongoing prayer and spiritual attentiveness

• Resources and reflections offered between sessions

• Support between sessions via phone or email if needed

This is your journey. You bring the content - your questions, experiences, hopes, and struggles. You don’t need to arrive with polished thoughts or complete clarity. What matters is that you show up honestly and intentionally.

You’re encouraged to:

• Reflect before our sessions on what has surfaced

• Harvest insights from journaling, prayer, or everyday life

• Come with curiosity and a willingness to explore

• Engage with practices or resources offered between sessions (as helpful)

What Happens in a Mentoring Session?

Each session holds space for whatever needs tending as it unfolds organically. We follow what feels most alive in a way that best serves you whether it be clarity, comfort, structure, or spaciousness.

Sessions may include:

• Listening conversation

• Reflective or imaginative processes

• Creative or symbolic engagement

• Gentle challenge or reframing

• Naming of values, desires, and direction

• Invitations into new practices or postures

The Gifts of Mentoring

• Greater clarity about who you are and where you’re going

• Strengthened inner confidence and decision-making

• Support to hold both beauty and suffering.

• Integration of faith, values, vocation and daily life

• Recovery of joy, spaciousness, and perspective

• Accountability for living with intention and authenticity

• Companionship that honours both your spiritual and human experience

Why I Offer Mentoring

John O’Donahue, Irish Poet and philosopher, uses the phrase Anam cara, which is translated as "soul friend," referring to a deep, non-judgmental relationship where you can be your true self, sharing your innermost thoughts and feelings with another person who acts as a guide, and mirror to your soul. Sometimes we find an Aman cara in a special friend or spiritual community, other times we benefit from finding a companion who is a little removed from our daily life, with space and time available to meet regularly and intentionally with us.

Mentoring has been part of my own journey of healing, discovery, and courage. And now, it is one of the ways I offer presence to others, especially those who are asking big questions, carrying deep responsibilities, or simply longing to be more themselves.