Monday, November 20, 2017

Thinking about being a Mentor: Cultivating curiosity

#1: Curiosity come first: Getting adults to remain curios. Inspiring co-workers to dive into the wonder of why.

#2: Embrace the mess: Face it even as a sophisticated grown up learning new things is messy, we will get to wrong, we will stumble and in those stumbles we learn. IT IS O.K. to get it wrong. I say this to the children all the time. I am mindful to say it to my co-workers.

#3: Practice Reflection: In making the messes and the mistakes we get to rethink, redo, and move forward to the next what if and why. In being a mentor we need to show our work, bring our messy thinking out into the light so that we can show our peers that we don't always have our shit together. We have just learned to stumble with some grace.