ABSTRACT
Findings from the 2015 international wellbeing survey highlight a clear link between the environment in which students learn and their development and life satisfaction. This chapter offers thoughts and strategies for supporting both the people own and their mentee's mental health and wellbeing. As a mentor, the people can use skills like rapport-building, deep listening and wider empathy skills to enhance the people mentee's wellbeing. In calmly and proactively seeking additional support when the people need it, the people are again modelling an adaptive strategy for protecting wellbeing to mentee. Positive relationships between mentors and mentees are built on a foundation of emotional health through the development of skills, which include self-agency, beliefs about others, self-awareness, social awareness, self-regulation and relationship skills. Research shows that school culture influences the resilience of teachers in their early career. The mentor-mentee relationship is one of the critical protective factors for beginning teacher wellbeing.
