We work together for your success. Throughout the working relationship we will engage in direct and personal conversations. Since mentoring fosters an equal relationship between two adults, you can count on me to be honest and straightforward in asking questions and making requests. I invite you to do the same in relation with me. I will seek from you constructive feedback on the process and on my performance.  Please also feel free to give me feedback at any time. Mentoring results are not guaranteed, and I request of you that you enter into mentoring on the understanding that you are responsible for taking action as defined by you and creating your own results as you want to.

I am aware of my own level of competence and will advise you to seek support elsewhere if I feel an issue which arises explicitly or implicitly is beyond my competence and/or outside the mentoring remit (examples include situations that require financial advice, counselling, psychotherapy, or any medical advice). 

Procedure:

We agree a mutual time and date that works for us over MS Teams, Skype, Whatsapp, the telephone, or face-to-face.

Mentoring:

Our agreement will begin with a free consultation meeting (typically 30-40 minutes). Once you have decided to pursue mentoring, we will typically hold one meeting a week on a trial basis. This will then lead to an agreed regular set of meetings throughout your time in university and this is up to you as the mentee to decide and you are under no pressure to have more sessions.

Changes:

If either of us needs to reschedule a meeting, we need to give at least 48 hours’ notice if possible. In case of an emergency, we will work around it. Forgetting or skipping meetings without 48 hours notice will incur a 100% charge for the session.

If you decide to end our mentoring relationship, no refunds will be given for any sessions already booked and paid for.

Extra time:

You may e-mail me between our meetings if you need additional support. I will aim to reply within 24 hours, apart from weekends.

Questions:

We agree that if you have any other questions at the end of the sessions, I am happy to answer these from the perspective of a practitioner/someone with knowledge.

Problems:

Please use open and honest communication with me if you are not getting what you need from our mentoring relationship. I aim to put your needs first every time. Either of us can dissolve the relationship at any time but if we decide to do this, we both have a responsibility to discuss the matter together first.

Confidentiality:

All our sessions remain totally confidential, unless otherwise agreed. I will protect the confidentiality of any notes which I create that relate to the information you have given me.

I will respect your autonomy, your fundamental rights and any cultural, individual and role differences which there may be between us, as well as your values, attitudes, and opinions (including those which differ from my own).

At all times I will be supportive and non-judgmental of you, your views, your lifestyle, and your aspirations unless they carry risk of serious damage to other people or property. If there is an occasion when an issue arises that I believe needs to be referred elsewhere, I undertake to discuss this with you first.

Commitment to Action:

You are responsible for your own learning and taking forward the actions agreed at the mentoring meeting.  From time to time, I may make a direct request or ask you to pursue a line of enquiry between our sessions.  You are free to accept, make a counteroffer or decline. The purpose will always be to forward the action and deepen the learning.