Transitioning into adulthood is fraught with change and weighty decision-making that can seem overwhelming. What do you want to be when you grow up becomes a very loaded and stressful question. This is why mentoring for young adults can make a tremendous difference. As your child navigates the transition from teenager to young adult, individual mentors are uniquely positioned to guide, teach, and offer encouragement and support in both good times and bad.
Benefits of Mentoring and Personalized Guidance
One-on-one learning has always been king when it comes to acquiring knowledge. If your child is lucky enough to have an academic or sports mentor, you know how an individual mentor can impact personal growth and achievement.
How Does Personalized Guidance Impact Young Adults?
It’s easy to tell someone what to do but more impactful to give them the tools and skills they need to find their own solutions. This is the power of mentorship. You’ve heard the old adage: give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime. The same principle applies to individual mentoring. Having access to a trusted mentor who can guide, teach, train, inspire, and encourage is what makes individual mentoring so effective.
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It’s possible that your child does not have the skills to enter adulthood and thrive. That’s where we come in. We work one-on-one, in groups, or with families to map out a clear path to success. We do our best work when we put a foundation under those dreams and help young adults create a plan for success, little by little, one goal at a time. This support, tailored specifically to your child, is what makes mentoring programs effective for personal growth in young adults.
Advantages of Tailored Mentorship Programs
Here at Octagon Mentoring, our mission is to cultivate growth, resilience, and connection. We do this best through mentorship. Many youth have dreams but are unsure of how to achieve them. Worries and fear bog them down, and this creates a type of paralysis that young adults are hard-pressed to escape.
Tailored mentorship programs offer the following services:
We Teach. Mentors teach valuable skills like accountability and responsibility. They also model how to act, communicate, and work through difficult situations.
We Inspire. Mentors can inspire your child to reach higher and not settle for less. As the ever-cheerful and optimistic Mary Poppins is fond of saying: reach for the heavens, and you’ll get the stars thrown in. Good mentorship programs will help your child believe in his potential and work hard to achieve it.
We Encourage. Everyone has hard times. A good mentor will encourage your child when things don’t go as expected or a challenging situation is not easily solved. They offer non-judgemental support, guidance, and a listening ear. Having a trusted, knowledgeable adult in your child’s corner can make all the difference.
The Importance Of Life Skills In Achieving Potential
“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t: both are right.” What goes on in your young adult’s mind is of paramount importance. What will influence your young adult’s state of mind? Unequivocally, we can state that developing life skills will change his mindset about what he believes he is capable of.
Life skills are directly connected to achieving potential. The development of life skills will help you reach your potential because they not only give you hard skills but also have the power to change mindsets and instill confidence and grit as life skills are gained slowly over time.
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Through our mentorship program, we have witnessed how life skills taught through individual mentoring can be crucial for success. Skills like how to deal with adversity and win, how to develop a growth mindset to see mistakes as learning opportunities and not a label on confirmation of low intelligence, time management, communication skills, goal setting, and decision-making and problem-solving skills are all transferable skills that will serve your child well in his young adult years and beyond.
The Octagon Mentoring Approach: A Path to Reaching Potential
We’re not shy about the fact that Octagon’s distinctive mentoring approach is what sets us apart. While there’s more than one way to approach mentoring, our personalized guidance and mentoring programs truly endow our students with the life skills to succeed at anything life throws at them.
We call it the Octagon Process–this idea that Leonardo da Vinci discovered that people can observe themselves from every angle when standing within an octagon of mirrors. We encourage our students to step into The Octagon and view themselves holistically. This process helps our students identify their blind spots, gain perspective, and implement new strategies and tools for a better life.
Individual mentoring can help young adults reach their potential by developing the following skills:
- Time Management
- Setting and achieving goals
- Effective communication
- Cultivate a growth mindset
- Productively ways to deal with adversity
- Develop healthy coping strategies when overwhelmed by stress or fear
With the Octagon Process in their toolkit, our participants have the perspective and life skills to face new and ever-changing challenges.
Why The Answer Is Always Mentoring
People always ask us why we started Octagon Mentoring, and the answer is pretty simple–the truth is each member of Octagon Mentoring is passionate about helping teens and young adults reach their full potential and become thriving, well-adjusted adults in the process. One of the best ways we know how to do this is by walking right alongside your child through our Individual Mentoring Program. We know parenting is tough. We also know how deeply you care about your child, and we’d love to partner with you. Seeing the principles we teach in our personal development coaching programs take hold and ignite your child from within is what keeps us going day after day. We do what we do because we know it works, and we believe in the power and potential of every child. Contact us today to see how we can help.
