Dial M for Mentor
Reflections On Mentoring in Film, Television and Literature
By:
Jonathan Gravells, Fargo Associates.
Susan Wallace, Nottingham Trent University.
- eBook
- ISBN: 9781617354311
Published 2011
This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice. How realistic are our expectations of personal change, and to what extent is the flourishing self-help market responsible for this? What, if any, are the moral responsibilities of executive mentors and coaches, when it comes to global corporate wrongdoing? What should constitute ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’ in a world in which ambiguity and doubt can appear more effective weapons of survival? What can Pinocchio, The Matrix, Star Wars or The Sopranos tell us about any of this?
Storytelling and metaphor have become of increasing interest in research into leadership and learning. Here is a book which takes the idea of storytelling as a powerful aid to learning and change, and uses it to help practitioners and educators challenge their ideas on mentoring in an entertaining way, by asking themselves some of the difficult questions that these popular stories raise.
CONTENTS
Foreword, David Clutterbuck
Preface: Mentoring in Popular Culture
1. Turkey, Tomatoes and Poppadoms: Storytelling, and its Role
in Making Meaning and Learning
2. Monks, Mobsters, and the Matrix: Knowledge, Learning,
Action, and Change
3. Vampires, Hustlers and Tough Love: The Use and Abuse
of Power and Trust
4. From the Bada-Bing to the Belly of the Whale (By Way of
Belgium): The Mentor as Moral Compass and Conscience
5. Ratso, Rita and the Android: Personal Change and Self-Fulfilment
6. The Enemy Within, or Just a Critical Friend? The Subversive
Mentor or Transformation Through Subversion, Humor and
Tough Love
7. Attorneys, Aliens and Fools: Mentoring for Diversity and
Speaking Truth to Power
8. “Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying”: Purpose, Autonomy
and the Power of Positive Thinking
9. Summary
About the Authors
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