Answered by Head Mentor, Paul S. Waugh
Our aim at Lighthouse Global is to develop a culture of mentoring which is absolutely essential to all areas of society; family life, with our children, in small businesses, and throughout large multinational organisations.
We all know from our personal experiences that it can be quite daunting to put your trust in someone else to provide guidance and support. You can read more about some of these experiences on our Lighthouse Global Community site. We have both been helped, and we have helped others, and this is a responsibility we take incredibly seriously.
In the video below, our Head Mentor answers your questions: Can I trust mentorship coaching? What is the Lighthouse team like? What traits help a mentee to grow? Will a mentor try to control me?
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Originally published on Medium
There is nothing more powerful than helping someone to realise their own potential through mentorship and helping them to realise they are in control of their own life. That is the place I am now in through the mentorship that I've received! Thank you #paulstephenwaugh and the #lighthouseinternational team!
Thanks for this article! All of us just have one set of parents, so we don’t know what we don’t know and what we miss in our upbringing. To have a culture of mentoring is very empowering and from my own experience I know how much of a positive difference it makes in terms of being able to progress in life and also on my levels of happiness, meaning, purpose and fulfilment. And yes, it is absolutely crucial and vital to ensure that you have mentor(s) who you can trust and where you know that they are dedicated to reality and have your best interest in heart and mind.
My own experience of mentorship has been very empowering but also very challenging at times. What has been key to me is building my relationships with my mentors Tom and Warren and knowing they are always there to support and guide me. There have been challenging times but I have grown the most through finding solutions and being open to being challenged in the first place. For me, mentorship has been and still is a continuous journey of discovery and growth.
Starting with your heart and putting the right energy in! What a brilliant message, not just for what mentorship means and what facilitates an upbuilding mentoring relationship, but for everything that we ever do!
Thanks James - yeah mentoring is such a unique relationship. It’s impossible to label and put into a box. The key is building trust and being open to the fact that others can see what we can’t see about ourselves.