Creative Mentoring

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Mentoring is an age-old, earth-oriented practice that aims at revealing the inner nature and natural genius of youth, while awakening the inner elder in the "olders." Mentoring involves natural inclinations to teach and to learn, and essential instincts to guide and protect. When used in creative ways mentoring becomes a "living bridge" between generations that invites youth into issues of cultural change and environmental healing.


Creative Mentoring in Portland, OR
An intensive workshop with author and mythologist Michael Meade

 Saturday, May 1st ~ 9:30am to 5:30pm
Friends Meeting House
4312 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, 97215

Creative Mentoring offers orientation and training in the core ideas and purposes of mentoring. The character named Mentor first appears in The Odyssey where he acts as guide and teacher for a young prince facing cultural devastation. From the beginning mentoring involves healing culture as well as guiding youth. Creative Mentoring assists nature to heal and culture to renew while helping youth encounter their own genius and unique spirit for life.

While mentoring naturally involves youth, it also helps to re-imagine meaningful roles for elders. The role of the mentor can be seen as a bridge which helps youth find their way into life, while also preparing the olders to act as elders in the community. Mentoring also involves rites of passage and other traditional practices that help people survive crises and enter new stages of life. Thus, Creative Mentoring can help veterans return from war, addicts recover from dependence, and youth awaken from violence and apathy.

Through Creative Mentoring people can discover and clarify what they have to offer in the way of teaching, guiding, and mentoring others. Typical outcomes of this workshop include: a deepened sense of identity as a mentor; greater awareness of inner resources within individuals and groups; an increased understanding of the spiritual components of mentoring; new frameworks for understanding how learning works. The process of Creative Mentoring can be applied to existing organizations and agencies and also used to fashion new forms for developing community based projects.

CREATIVE MENTORING BENEFITS TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS, PRACTITIONERS OF TRADITIONAL AND SPIRITUAL ARTS, AGENTS OF CULTURAL HEALING AND CHANGE, PARENTS, SOCIAL ACTIVISTS, AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH NATURE AND VALUE COMMUNITY.
Proceeds support Voices of Youth and Intercultural Projects
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