Mentors

I. Chalice Lighting & Opening Words

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

~ Unknown

II. Check-In

III. Topic & Questions

A witty definition of mentor is: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight. Mentors can be formal or informal, parents, teachers or even strangers. They are people we have learned something from that somehow shapes our lives.

Have you benefitted from a mentor in your life?

What did he or she teach you?

Did they teach it by telling or by doing?

Have you acted as a mentor to anyone?

IV. Likes and Wishes

V. Closing Words

"In the beginning of life, when we were infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right? But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."

From Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom