Working With Jamie: He Thought He Was "Just A Mentor".
Working With
Jamie:
He Thought He Was
"Just A Mentor".
Written By: Ross Thompson
He thought he was ‘just’ a mentor. He left my training knowing he was a difference-maker.
Jamie had been mentoring young people for a few years and was brilliant at building relationships. But he came into my training with a quiet sense of frustration. He felt like he was doing everything right, yet the outcomes didn’t always reflect the effort. He wanted to go beyond connection. He wanted to create lasting change.
In my Strategic Mentoring Training, we broke down what mentoring really means. We moved away from instinct and towards intentionality. Jamie discovered how to set clear mentoring goals, promote independence and challenge young people in a way that respected their journey. He learned to hold structure without stifling personality, and most of all, he saw the power of reflective practice in real time.
Throughout the training, Jamie’s confidence grew. He began bouncing ideas off the other participants, rethinking how he planned his sessions and identifying how he could stretch his mentees further. This professional development didn’t just inform him, it ignited him. He saw how his role could have a deeper and more strategic impact.
Today, I understand Jamie is now a lead mentor in his setting, supporting newer staff and shaping his school’s mentoring provision across the young people they work with. He didn’t need to become someone else. He just needed the tools to realise what he was already capable of.
Ross Thompson
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