Why It’s Critical to Make Time for Stories
I’m regularly asked if the Story Retreat matters. I hear things like, “My mentees are busy…” “We don’t have time to get out of town…” I also often hear from leaders that the Story Retreat…
Mentoring Tips
Practical tips and stories to help mentors lead their small groups well.
Why Requiring Attendance and Timeliness Is Important
One of the distinguishing characteristics of Radical Mentoring is the requirement that everyone attends every meeting and shows up on time. Like many things, this was born of one motive but then morphed with a wonderful…
Mentors Are Interpreters
Interpreters take information from one context and turn it into usable, helpful information in another. Parents are interpreters. They help their kids interpret what’s happening around them. Kids come into the world without a clue,…
Mentors Embody the Christian Life
When something is hard to understand, incredibly complex, high powered with high potential, it usually takes an example or application or utility for it to be understood. When the guys at Bell Labs invented the…
The Best Mentors Are Tour Guides not Travel Agents
Many of us probably have experience with both travel agents and tour guides, but have you ever considered the differences between the two… The Travel Agent – Sits behind a desk and provides recommendations, shares…
Five Things to Think About When Launching Radical Mentoring
After years of guiding mentors and churches through the process of launching Radical Mentoring groups, I feel like I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen Radical Mentoring work in churches of all shapes and sizes. I’ve…
Spiritual Maturity is Essential to Mentoring (And Six Attributes That Define It).
The basic premise of mentoring is to show mentees not just how to do something but also how to be something. Hopefully, during the mentoring season, mentees will have seen some of Jesus in their…
The Secret to Getting People to Read
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times… “How do you expect mentees to read nine books over nine months?” “People are too busy with work and family activities to consider something…
Six Reasons Mentors Tell Failure Stories (and Why Mentees Listen!)
If you’ve been hanging around Radical Mentoring for long, you’ve probably heard us say the best mentors aren’t teachers, they’re facilitators. A great mentor is one who can listen, ask good questions, bring others into…
Vulnerability is at the Heart of Mentoring
The next generation is looking for mentors who are willing to invest in them, step into the messiness of life, and walk with them. Not someone who has all the answers, but someone who is…
