Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines - (Perspectives on Mentoring) by Benjamin Kutsyuruba & Keith D Walker (Hardcover)

About the Book

Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines offers invaluable insights into how mentorship can enhance wellbeing across various fields and professional settings.

Book Synopsis

Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines offers invaluable insights into how mentorship can enhance wellbeing across various fields and professional settings. By focusing on the dual aims of personal support and professional learning, this book highlights the often-overlooked positive impact of mentoring on both mentors and mentees. The authors provide practical advice and theoretical perspectives on how developmental relationships foster mutual trust and benefit all parties involved, ultimately helping mentees flourish in their roles and develop essential skills.

The book delves into the connection between mentorship and wellbeing and explores how mentoring can promote mental health, build resilience, and sustain emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing in different organizational settings. Through the collection of chapters from international authors, the book examines the theory and practice of mentorship, offering a comprehensive understanding of how mentoring can enhance wellbeing in K-12 schools, higher education, business, healthcare, pastoral care, and even aviation. The chapter authors present stories and perspectives that deepen our understanding of the multifaceted benefits of mentoring.

By addressing various dimensions of wellbeing--physical, social, emotional, financial, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, cultural, and occupational--this volume provides a holistic view of the positive impact of mentoring. It discusses developmental relationships, program initiatives, and strategies that foster positive organizational cultures and personal growth. Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines is a must-read for anyone interested in the transformative power of mentoring, offering practical applications and new avenues for future research and study.

Review Quotes

Do you want to facilitate psychological, physical, and spiritual wellbeing among members of your profession, especially newcomers to your community? Then get deliberate and tactical about world-class mentoring relationships! This excellent volume from mentorship thought leaders and innovators across disciplines and across the globe provides a roadmap for leveraging mentoring to create hope, confidence, self-efficacy, and belonging in the lives of mentees. This masterful handbook should be in your mentoring toolkit!

Encouraging expanded perspectives on mentorship from outstanding experts in the field, this book will broaden program development and implementation. Further examination establishes the complexity and depth in unique environments, settings, and situations. Segments from each chapter, spanning research to comprehensive practices, challenges you to a robust examination of your current mentoring structures and provides a path for future growth.

We are living in a world of uncertainty filled with issues that impact the wellbeing of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and nations. Yet, there is a void in the professional research literature and in publications read by those in the business and work world that deal with these issues in a concrete and practical manner. This book fills that void. The editors present the underlying issues impacting wellbeing in a concrete and practical manner. The chapter authors deal with these issues and present specific strategies and programs focused upon fostering individual and organizational wellbeing across a broad spectrum of settings. The book should be of immense value to a wide range of readers interested in creating healthy environments that support individual health and wellbeing and organizational success.

While the many positive outcomes of mentoring have been well-documented, the potential for mentoring to enhanced well-being is arguably its most important benefit. This is especially true in current times when students and other trainees are facing a crisis of mental health and well-being. This book edited by Dr.'s Kutsyuruba and Walker is particularly timely, as it cogently discusses multiple applications and strategies for leveraging mentoring to optimize well-being. With chapters authored by leading experts in the field, this volume provides invaluable information that will help readers apply mentorship to enhance the well-being of themselves, their mentees, and their communities.

About the Author

Benjamin Kutsyuruba, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy, and School Law in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Keith D. Walker, PhD, DD, is a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.