Embrace Your Journey: Youth Mentorship and Coaching
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Growing up, discovering who you are and who you really want to be, maximizing your strengths and gifts while overcoming limits, making deep friendships and building community, finding your vocation, your calling, your path to leadership and service for humanity, finding your own happiness… It's a real shame we lump so many profound and life shaping moments in our youth under the idea that we are merely “growing up”. It's so much more than that!
To approach adulthood it takes the spirit of a warrior, the strength of a ruler, the wisdom of a philosopher, and the passion of an artist. Not all people reach adulthood—in fact, some people unfortunately remain uninitiated their whole life. To conquer “growing up”, you have to be ready to come face-to-face with your true power. If you succeed, the journey of life becomes rich, your mission and purpose is revealed, and all of humanity benefits from your creativity and vision.
The secret of this success and the focus of youth mentorship and coaching is to realize that the only person in the whole world who can initiate you into adulthood is yourself! To prepare for initiation you have to journey into your own underworld and face your fear and self-deception. Along the way you gain many allies, trustworthy friends, and new skills and abilities. It requires sacrifice and can be painful at times, but help always comes if you learns to ask in the right way…
Mentorship means being willing to train your mind, body, heart and spirit in order to take full responsibility for yourself and to step into your personal power. The role of the mentor is to create a safe and nurturing space for young people to accomplish this. It takes time to explore the inner self, understand emotions, develop a deep sense of self-awareness, and cultivate free will. Through mindfulness training, holistic wellness practices, self-care techniques, and life coaching the mentor empowers the mentee to flourish in their personal, academic, and future life.
One of the first thing the mentor helps with is deprogramming ones behavior, habits, beliefs and values, and worldview from inauthentic influences. To think, feel, and choose for oneself is sacred and one of life's great privileges and honors. To achieve this, mentoring is designed to cultivate progressive attitudes and a knack for personal innovation. The art and science of challenging the status quo, exploring diverse perspectives, exposing oneself to both ancient and modern revolutionary ideas, and embracing our uniqueness fearlessly is a truly satisfying and worthwhile work. It's a proven way to become a leader, trailblazer, and change agent in one's own life and, if one choses it, in the world of a radically better tomorrow.
Compassion lies at the heart of mentorship and coaching relationships. Having an experienced, skilled, and genuine mentor, who provides unwavering support and guidance throughout the journey, is a rare opportunity and a big challenge! Mentors support their mentees to take the best path forward—but not necessarily the easiest. Mentoring is a labour of love in which supporting a young person’s rite of passage into life becomes a sacred duty.
It is important to build essential life skills and emotional intelligence, to gain the tools to navigate life's challenges with resilience, to build meaningful relationships, and to make decisions aligned with authentic values. And mentoring takes young people through these milestones and beyond… mentees are also guided and challenged to find their own spiritual path, their own creed of healing and awakening, their own relationship with the mystical and divine.
Empowered with this knowledge, mentees step confidently into adulthood, fully aware of their potential to create positive change, and fully capable of become benefactors and mentors in turn for the people life places in their care.
It is a rare opportunity for young people who feel the call within to strive to make something truly remarkable of themselves and to consciously direct the journey that life has given them. Inner Adventure mentorship was created for special people who feel this call.