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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword; Lisa Z. Fain
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Need for Mentoring for Wellbeing in Professional Settings; Benjamin Kutsyuruba and Keith D. Walker
Chapter 2. Mentoring for Wellbeing through Inquiry; Keith D. Walker and Kabini Sanga
Chapter 3. Mentors’ Use of Interventions to Promote Wellbeing; Mary Barbara Trube
Chapter 4. Mentoring Person-Centered Psychospiritual Maturation: Foundation for Individual and Social Wellbeing; Jared D. Kass
Chapter 5. The Hidden Party in Mentorship Dyads: Trauma’s Influence on Wellbeing; Stephanie Guastella Lindsay and Danielle Kubasko Sullivan
Chapter 6. Work-Related, Spiritual Mentoring in Support of Stakeholder Wellbeing; Sheldene Simola
Chapter 7. The Laying on of Hands: Mentoring for Wellbeing in the Pastoral Relationship; Mark Buchanan, Ric Strangway, and Arch Chee Keen Wong
Chapter 8. A More Engaged Workforce: Connecting Corporate Mentoring and Wellbeing; Julie Silard Kantor
Chapter 9. Positive Leadership Development Through Informal Mentoring; Christopher M. Parfitt and Dianelys Navarro
Chapter 10. Educational Leadership and Wellbeing: A Virtuous Journey through Servant Leader Mentoring; Fatima Salas-Rodriguez, Melinda C. Bier, and Deborah S. O’Reilly
Chapter 11. Positive School Leadership in Teacher Induction Programs: Promoting Early Career Teachers’ Wellbeing through Mentoring in Malta; Christopher Bezzina and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Chapter 12. Induction through Near Peer Learning Communities: The Impact on New Teacher Retention, Self-Efficacy, and Wellbeing; Amanda L. Mazin and Jessica F. Riccio
Chapter 13. Nurturing Well-being in Teacher Education: A Focus on Needs-oriented Mentoring; Benjamin Dreer-Göthe
Chapter 14. The Power of Feedback to Foster Wellbeing, Relatedness, and Goal Achievement in Mentoring Relationships; Rebecca Stroud and Trista Hollweck
Chapter 15. A LatCircle: Supporting Academic and Social Wellbeing Through Effective Virtual Mentoring of Latinx Scholars; James Martínez, Regina L. Suriel, María L. Gabriel, Juan A. Ríos Vega, Neritza Díaz-Cruz, and Javier Gonzalez Gonzales
Chapter 16. Mentoring in a Professional Learning Community of Researchers: Perspectives on Wellbeing; Luciana C. de Oliveira, Karen L. Terrell, Jia Gui, Tara M. Willging, Jefferson do Carmo Andrade Santos, and Allessandra Elisabeth dos Santos
Chapter 17. Women Supporting Women: A Collaborative Autoethnography Exploring Mutual Mentoring for Wellbeing at Work; Ann M. Morgan and Laura Knight Lynn
Chapter 18. Reciprocal Mentoring: Shared Funds of Knowledge and Faculty Wellbeing; Dionne Clabaugh, Christine Carducci, Suji Venkataraman and Sandy Baba
Chapter 19. Building Resilience Through a Structured Mentoring Program in an Interprofessional Health Practice; Summer V. McMurry and Catherine L. Funk
Chapter 20. Mentorship for Wellbeing in Postgraduate Medical Education; Anurag Saxena, Gayathri Manoharan, Loni Desanghere, Tanya Robertson-Frey, and Jennifer Uhryn
Chapter 21. Mentoring for Wellbeing in Nursing Practice; Debra Leners and Karin Polifko
Chapter 22. Empowering Connections: The Impacts of Mentoring on Employee Wellbeing; Rebecca Rogers
Chapter 23. Mentoring for the Wellbeing of Pilots: Innovative Mentoring in the Field of Aviation; Catherine G. Cordova, Barron Parsons-Daisley, and Emma Fox
Chapter 24. Concluding Thoughts: Mediating Wellbeing and Garnering Momentum Through Mentorship; Keith D. Walker and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
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.
Review :
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.
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.
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.
