The Magic of Mentors
"Any process of deep or lasting growth involves mentors; their effects on us are more mysterious and far-reaching than the practical aid or advice they provide. We learn from books, we learn from our senses, our thoughts, our emotions, our doing. We learn from what others tell us, and from what we overhear. Though mentoring may include several of these modes of learning, it is also essentially different, because the mentor's simple presence in our lives creates an alchemy that transfers a subtle inner power. This transference cannot happen in any other way. In addition to simple face time, body time--our sharing of time, space, and presence with a mentor--it involves the sharing of stories.....
Mentoring tales, whatever advice or counsel they may offer, are also always tales of grief. In a mentoring tale, an older person inevitably expresses, whether directly or indirectly, the fact that sorrow is always the past's legacy, simply because the past, whatever else it may be, is gone, never to be recovered. The mentoring tale also expresses the confidence that, despite this and no matter how regrettable it may have been, the past is instructive and survivable. The past fertilizes the present." —Sailing Home, Norman Fischer
We use music throughout the offering, songs like this one.
The song is titled 'My Boy'.
If I could rename it... I would call it 'he made me a better man', one of the lyrics from the song.
You'll see this song captures as Jim Finley likes to say 'the felt texture' of the offering.
Below are series of documents that were shared with the Illuman Curricula Council.
Feel free to reach out to the Men listed in the Invitation to learn more about the offering.