Emotional

Emotions need addressing, both the healthy and unhealthy. A mentor can help a mentee grow in the area of emotions by first addressing them. A key principle in talking about emotions: we want to respond to emotions, not be controlled by them and react.

A mentor can help give a mentee language for how they are feeling. This may require some patience. This may also involve some good quesitons on the part of the mentor. Since the goal is to ehlp guide a mentee toward balance in their lives, addressing emotions that may be too big or too small is a first step toward balance. In order to start a good conversation about emotions, a mentor can ask questions to help identify emotions like:

• Which emotions make you nervous?

• Which emotions are difficult for you to express in front of others and why?

To find more content on the emtoinal component of people, check out our podcast Real Life Mentoring.