ABSTRACT

This chapter offers strategies for building mentoring relationships and suggestions from both the position of mentor and mentee. In addition to offering instruction to counseling students, counselor educators serve as mentors formally and informally. Developing a mentor identity is crucial to the success of counselor educators. The chapter provides exercises to deepen understanding of the process of mentoring students to facilitate the development of that identity and role. It includes strategies for building mentoring relationships; case examples of effective and ineffective mentoring and guided questions and guided questions to explore personal and professional characteristics that may enhance and hinder effective mentoring relationships. The chapter presents the text to guide counselor educators as they develop counselor educators' relationships with mentors and mentees. Both sides of the relationship require attention to fostering clear and consistent communication.