Mentorship with Gregory V. Diehl
I am available for professional coaching and mentorship in the following areas on a limited basis. It helps if you've already read some of my work on the subject before contacting me so that you understand my perspective and methods.
- Non-fiction writing
- Communication
- Book production and publishing
- Personal development and transformation
- Self-actualization
- Overcoming unconscious conditioning and cultural limitations
Use the form to the right to get in touch about the possibility of personal development mentorship.
What Is a Mentor?
What Constitutes Good Advice?
Personal development is the timeless quest to become a more complete or more authentic version of yourself. Mentor and mentee alike maintain this as their guiding principle. The mentor helps the mentee learn valuable lessons and avoid unnecessary mistakes on their path. They get where they are going faster, and they ascend to higher states as a result of the mentor's resources and influence.
A mentor helps others see the hidden patterns, principles, and connections behind the most pressing personal issues in their lives, particularly those that prevent the natural process of self-actualization from occurring.
A mentor or guide does not merely help someone get their life onto the track they think it ought to be on. They encourage them to consider if the road itself is the one they want to take at all.
A mentor helps others develop their emotional capacity, which in turn opens them up to a wider range of experiences and the wisdom that will come from them. A mentor prepares others for the weight of deeper understanding, but they do not magically bestow this understanding. Those who lack emotional maturity will not know how to integrate their experiences, derive meaningful lessons from them, and change their lives accordingly. The mentor helps them become a version of themselves that will go on to accomplish with ease for all their remaining life experiences.
The goal of the mentor is to obsolete themselves and render their own services superfluous as the student grows capable of filling this function in their own life.
Good advice is always rooted in the nature and values of the person who will follow it. It doesn't necessarily solve problems but encourages inquiry into their underlying causes and why solving them matters so much. Good advice is like a good birthday present; it's not something the recipient would likely have picked for themselves. Coming from a different perspective, the giver recognizes the recipient will find value in it. It's something you would not have thought to get for yourself.
The best advice is not usually what people think they need to hear. It has the potential to take them by surprise and make them uncomfortable. Most people won't risk alienating their friends and family with words they are not ready to hear. Professional mentors have no such limitations. Indeed, it is their job to push the boundaries others cannot for the sake of personal development.
I mentor others to overcome the blindspots and limitations of their conditioning. Conditioning is the set of circumstances that forms your unconscious expectations about how the world works and how you ought to act within it. These hidden limitations prevent you from fully self-actualizing and pursuing your values to the furthest extent humanly possible.