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Doing, Knowing and Being. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 264
Mentoring and coaching are popular, modern ways of
developing talent–mostly using the ‘wise old man’
notion of Mentor in Homer’s Odyssey with an older,
wiser person taking a younger, much less experienced
person under their wing. Surprisingly, the art of
mentoring should bear the goddess Athena’s name. She
is the real mentor in Homer's text.
Drawing on ancient and modern sources this book
explores mentoring and its transformative power from
the perspective of Athenic mentoring. This embodies
the development of what a person is 'doing' and
'knowing', and goes to the heart of who they
are–their 'being'.
This exploration of the nature of transformative
personal change is useful to anyone who is or wants
to be part of a mentoring relationship.
Examples are given throughout from the stories of
people who have been in mentoring relationships
(either as mentor, mentee, or both) as well as the
author’s own experience.
Understanding the difference between Athenic
mentoring (facilitating the transformation of a
person’s ‘being’) from mentoring that helps to
develop what a person ‘knows’ or ‘does’ can
significantly improve a mentoring relationship and
its outcomes.
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