Dial M for Mentor

Critical reflections on mentoring for coaches, educators and trainers

By (author) Jonathan Gravells, Susan Wallace

Publication date:

05 September 2012

Publisher

Critical Publishing

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781909330009

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This book is an invaluable aid for all those involved in coaching, educating and training. It uses stories of learning relationships taken from film, TV and literature as a tool for reflecting on, understanding and evolving current mentoring and coaching practice.

Storytelling and metaphor are increasingly important in research into leadership and learning. Here they are used as a powerful aid to learning and change by challenging ideas about mentoring in an innovative and entertaining way. The practical, moral and behavioural complexities of the mentoring relationship are explored through stories from Western popular culture, provoking difficult questions, promoting critical reflection and providing new insights through this fresh and enjoyable approach.

Preface: Mentoring in popular culture

1. Turkey, tomatoes and poppadoms: storytelling and its role in making meaning and learning

2. Monks, mobsters and the Matrix: knowledge, learning, action and change

3. Vampire, hustlers and tough love: the use and abuse of power and trust

4. From the Bada-Bing to the Belly of the Whale (by way of Belgium): the mentor as moral compass and conscience

5. Ratso, Rita and the android: personal change and self-fulfilment

6. The Enemy Within or just a critical friend? the subversive mentor or transformation through subversion, humour and tough love

7. Attorneys, aliens and fools: mentoring for diversity and speaking truth to power

8. 'Get busy living or get busy dying': purpose, autonomy and the power of positive thinking

Summary and Index