(I Call It Mentoring … or sometimes “Private Work”)

MythoSelf® Mentoring is All About
Creating Transformation in Your Life!

(Of course, you could also say it’s a profound personal development process)

[NOTE: Mentoring is also appropriate for professional development given that all professional development is de facto personal development, but not all personal development is professional development – a conundrum I know, but nonetheless there ya’ go.]

 

So what distinguishes mentoring from other forms of personal and professional improvement?MythoSelf® Mentoring focuses on personal and professional transformation … that’s its raison d’être. Transformation is a different process from incremental improvement. Transformation occurs when the fundamental ground that you are operating from shifts to a new position.

“Traditional models of coaching, counseling (therapy) and consulting are built around the idea of incremental improvement – going from where you already are by taking baby steps and making small shifts – not transformation.  

When your outcome is transformation only an intimate, intensive and personal mentoring experience led by someone who is profoundly skilled can and will do the job.”

- Dr. Joseph Riggio

Probably the most significant aspect of mentoring versus other more well know approaches to personal and professional development is that a mentor shares their own personal experience as an integral aspect of the approach and process they use.

 

 

A Short Story: Mentoring and the Hero’s Journey

If you knew me in my late twenties you might have though I was set up for life. I had been a partner in a successful interior architecture and design practice, making a significant six figure income, was getting married to a great girl, moving to an upscale suburban NJ town … in other words I had it all. But, there was something significant missing … the profound sense of satisfaction I was looking for in my life. Unbeknowst to me it was then that my personal adventure was about to begin, what one of my intellectual mentors – Joseph Campbell – calls the Hero’s Journey.

Without understanding it at the time I began searching for a guide, someone who could and would lead me to the threshold of the transformation that I was seeking. In my case my search ended and the adventure truly began when I met the man who would mentor me for the next seven years of my life, Roye Fraser. This was my personal introduction to the profound transformative potential of mentoring. It would not be too much to say that my life changed beyond recognition over those seven years Today my life is indeed very different … in an entirely different way I would say that today I really do have it all. Exactly what mentoring is and how it works is what I’d like to share with now …

“I’ve been studying and learning with Joseph since 1997. I knew there was something special about this man.. and his work… and I’ve not been disappointed. In fact I’ve been surprised over and over. Of all the many teachers I’ve had in my quest to discover who I am… and manifest myself at my best in the world.. he is the only one who has consistently kept me coming back again and again… because he keeps coming up with new material. And sometimes it rocks my world… but always to great purpose.. and this stuff works. Over the years I’ve seen the results manifesting magnificently and I have been opened out to cutting edge information and resources that I would never have had the time or patience or inclination to study on my own …“

- Peta Heskell, Author and Director of the Flirting Academy, London, England

 

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What Mentoring Is … And Is Not

Let’s get it out of the way early and begin with what mentoring is not – mentoring IS NOT coaching.

“Executive coaching means regular meetings between a business leader and a trained facilitator, designed to produce positive changes in business behavior in a limited time frame.”

Executive coaches, as a general rule,

• do not share their own experience (as do mentors)
• do not give advice (as do consultants)
• do not impart specific knowledge (as trainers do)
  -and-
• avoid personal issues( the role of a counselor, therapist or life coach)

2010 Executive Coaching Survey*Sherpa Coaching, LLC© 2010 Sherpa Coaching LLC. All rights reserved

 

*Coaching definition from ‘The Sherpa Guide: Process-Driven Executive Coaching’ , used/cited by the European Foundation of Management Development, Organization Development Journal, Coaching News, The Leading Coaches Center, the Executive Coaching Summit 2008 (Australia) and others.

This definition clarifies – who coaches are – trained facilitators (not acting as consultants, counselors, trainers or mentors), what coaches do – produce positive changes in business behavior, when things happen – on a set schedule within a limited time frame. By this definition of coaching, which seems to be all the rage right now, a significant difference between coaches and mentors are that, coaches do not share their personal experience. This of course is in direct opposition to one of the most essential aspects of what MythoSelf Mentors do.

Coaching as it’s taught and practiced (especially by folks who are trained/certified as professional coaches) is often also exclusively Socratic, with the coach limited to facilitation through asking questions designed to provoke access to the clients existing, internal resources. MythoSelf Mentoring is not limited to a Socratic approach and  just as often, or more often, is reactive and prescriptive offering direct input and guidance to the client, bringing them new resources that they did not possess themselves prior to the mentoring encounter.

 

Now What MythoSelf Mentoring Is …

The expectation within the MythoSelf Mentoring model is that the mentor brings with them significant life and professional experience and expertise they are ready, willing and able to share in a highly competent and professional way that’s particularly applicable to a client’s needs and desires in the moment. There is also an expectation for a MythoSelf Mentor to possesof deep expertise and a highly developed semantic and somatic skill set in using an applied mythological approach and somatic direction in working with clients.

MythoSelf Mentoring is grounded in the premise that there are two fundamental positions or ways of operating:

 

• A) from the Excitatory position, where you are positively oriented and organized in relation to possibilities
• B) from the Inhibitory position, where you are negatively oriented and organized in relation to limitations

 

MythoSelf Mentoring gives you the tools to make the choice to live your life from the Excitatory position … being at your best and accessing your individual Success Blueprint. What this means to you is that once you’ve experienced the transformation inherent in moving from the inhibitory position to the Excitatory position as the baseline you operate from your life begins to open to you in a profoundly different way … you’ll find your unique path, you’ll begin producing extraordinary outcomes on your own and with others, you’ll begin to experience your life as effortless …

 

“Hi Joseph … remember my crisis at job? Well, in the “manifest world” it all finished fine, almost un-noticed … But, in my inner world, I had a specific profound moment of realization that “Yes, I can really quit here and now, and all my future is still here in front of me”… what magic… and from this position… “everything is the same, and (yet) nothing is the same.”

- Petar Rokic, MythoSelf® Mentoring Client

 

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MythoSelf® Mentoring Options with Joseph

 

There are a few different ways I offer mentoring, these range from one-to-one intensive individual mentoring to small group mentoring options. The significant differences beyond whether the mentoring is provided one-to-one or in a a group have to do with the amount of time over which the mentoring is provided, the intensity of the mentoring experience and the intention behind the mentoring outcome.

Generally speaking what unites all the mentoring I do is that it is based in the MythoSelf Process, beginning with defining the way you are at your best and moving from there onto what to be doing when you’re like this that reinforces you being and remaining at your best. The essential intention the mentoring I provide in this way is to establish what I call a “Zero Compromise” position from which to be creating your outcomes. In addition the mentoring I provide to small business owners as a Certified Mentor of Alan Weiss’ Mentor Mastery program includes access to Alan’s mentor forums, newsletter and archives.

The outstanding benefit of all MythoSelf Mentoring is the sense of balance and power you are likely to begin experiencing virtually immediately as a result of our work together. Most of my clients report that their sense of being absolutely on track in their lives increases exponentially during their time working with me and so will yours, consequently the results you’ll produce will be extraordinarily powerful.

 

MythoSelf® Individual MentoringThis is my most basic mentoring offering for individual clients. We’ll meet face-to-face and/or connect by telephone monthly, with a minimum of a three month commitment. This option is very focused and offers you a very fast-track to the benefits of mentoring. I facilitate the fundamental process to assist you in identifying the markers of how you are at your best and feed them back to you in a way that give you immediate access to choosing this way of being, and we’ll begin to structure the pattern of success that we’ll be working with together as we continue the mentoring process.

 

MythoSelf® Intensive MentoringMythoSelf Intensive Mentoring is the most intense and intimate form of working that I engage in with my clients. Access to MythoSelf Intensive Mentoring is extremely limited and all applications are reviewed on a first come, first serve basis.

MythoSelf Intensive Mentoring is designed for elite performers – entrepreneurs, professionals, executives, etc. – who desire the most intensive and impactful experience that is possible. MythoSelf Intensive Mentoring allows you to receive the maximum benefit in the shortest possible time span. MythoSelf Intensive Mentoring is of a full one or two days in duration, and is always provided in a face to face format, with six months to a full year of follow-up access to me without limitation.

 

MythoSelf® Group Mentoring OptionsFor years I’ve been working with clients privately and in small group settings creating transformational experiences. For some experiencing this work individually has been prohibitive in the past based on my rates for private work, and while his small groups have been more accessible I’ve only run them infrequently. I’ve designed a series of new programs specifically to create a transformational experiences for a small, elite groups of committed individuals.

 

7Figure™ Professional Mentoring
including access the Alan Weiss  Mentor Mastery™This year I decided to begin offering this option for folks who are primarily interested growing their practice or business. The 7Figure Professional Mentoring  program is essentially one year of unlimited access to me by e-mail, phone, fax, regular mail, etc. I will work with you strategically (deciding on your primary value proposition, identifying your target audience, developing unique offerings, etc.), and tactically (what to say at the meeting tomorrow, how to resolve a conflict, setting up a business proposal etc.).

 

To find out more or to begin a mentoring program with me reach out to Niki my Executive Assistant and schedule a complimentary call to discuss the options with me:

YES ! Please … I’d Like To Schedule A Complimentary Call With Joseph

 

NOTE: This call is completely complimentary and without obligation. Together we’ll discuss what you expect to get from mentoring, whether it’s right for you, and what other options may be available. Regardless of whether or not we decide to work together this call will prove extremely valuable to you and you can consider a gift just for giving me the privilege of your consideration.