ABSTRACT
This chapter's purpose is to unpack some of the issues and consider how mentoring can be embraced as a positive pedagogical process to mentor for success in coaching. Coaching is a social structure involving power relations, and the way power is exercised can empower or disempower mentoring. However, mentoring, whether formal or informal, must contribute to the transformation of coache's experience into knowledge and expertise. One method of facilitation is through the formal use of mentors to identify and develop learning opportunities. Process and role construct the nature of the mentoring relationship and success of learning within mentoring will be dependent upon the quality of the relationship. Effective learning as a result of mentoring is situated in context, where new knowledge and skills are used and where individuals construct meaning for themselves but within a context of interaction with others.
