Looking for a Mentor?
At School for the Heart, we believe that everyone deserves a mentor grounded in wisdom, ethics, and evidence-based mentoring practice. This is the foundation of our Mentor Mindset Movement. We help you answer commonly asked questions and provide solutions that work for you.
Why Finding the Right Mentor Is Hard?
What People Who Request Mentors Are Seeking?
What do We Train Mentors To Do for Mentees?
FAQs Mentees Ask
Why Finding the Right Mentor Is Hard?
Many organisations already have leadership training, capacity-building programs, or mentorship modules. But across the sector, one problem repeats:
Mentor training exists on paper… but it does not translate into practice.
Mentees — often first-generation learners, youth in transition, or early-career professionals — are looking for something deeper than subject knowledge:
They want a safe relationship, a role model beyond the family, someone who listens and helps them make sense of the world.
Without structured mentor preparation, this gap persists.
What People Who Request Mentors Are Seeking?
Mentees usually want support in one or more of these areas:
Meaning & Purpose: Finding alignment between their values, their organisation’s mission, and the work they do daily.
Career Growth & Mobility: Understanding pathways for leadership, influence, and stable advancement in the development sector.
Clarity in Decision-Making: Learning to navigate complex social-impact work, stakeholder pressures, and moral dilemmas.
Confidence & Emotional Wellbeing: Managing burnout, self-doubt, team conflict, and the emotional intensity of frontline work.
Skill-Building Through Reflection: Not more content — but frameworks, mirror questions, and a thinking partner who helps them grow.
A strong mentor can unlock all of these — but only with proper training.
What do We Train Mentors To Do for Mentees?
The 4 Core Outcomes of the Mentor Mindset Workshops:
1. Become Empathic Listeners
Mentors learn how to listen deeply, hold space, ask crucial questions, and understand mentee needs beyond surface-level conversations.
2. Embody the 4Cs of Servant Leadership
Courage, Compassion, Competence, and Character. साहस. करुणा. कौशल. चरित्र. A structured curriculum based on timeless wisdom texts and modern mentoring research.
3. Value Continuous Learning & Reverse Mentoring
Mentors are trained to stay curious, humble, and open — learning from their mentees as much as they guide them.
4. Become Visionary
Mentors practice looking beyond current limitations to reveal a mentee's highest potential. By learning how to illuminate these future possibilities, they empower the mentee to strive for what once seemed impossible.
