Mentoring

Mentoring is something that I have been doing my whole life. Weather it is with family, friends, or people at school. I find that mentoring is just something that I am good at because I am always able to give people great advice when they need it and also able to make sure that people are doing what is best for themselves. From grade 6-10 I was a mentor to people within my school. I used to help people with there math homework. In school this was a great way for not only me to help people, but for me to also help myself. I find that by teaching others I was able to feel more confident about my own skills and what not. When it comes to my friends I also help mentor them through their lives. I find that I am always able to help my friends when ever they have a problem. Usually I am able to tell them a way in which the problem will most likely be fixed. For example One of my friends had no idea what the wanted to do for college. So I sat down with this friend and after taking for awhile I gave him my advice and since then he has started to change his ways and now think more about his own future. In family life I use mentoring whenever I am trying to help my brother out. My brother is two years older then me, but still has no idea what he wants to do in life. I find myself mentoring him almost daily as to what I think he should do. Overall I know however that he has to choose his own path but I can always be there t give him my opinion as well.

Mediation

Mediation is one thing that I used to never do in my life. I find that in almost all times when people were have an argument that I would simply stand back and let them deal with it themselves. After reading the articles about how mediation has worked wonderfully within schools I have started to realize just how important it is in many situations. I even have started to mediate myself if there was a time in which I should do so. For example just last weekend I was hanging out with my group of friends. Two of my friends who happen to be boyfriend and girlfriend started to fight over just about the stupidest things. I found that both of them were being to stubborn to even listen to the other, so I had to intervene. I first gave them my input about how what they were arguing about was completely pointless. Then went on and told them that they simply need to talk to each other in a more calming way. After I said that I just started to let them talk it out themselves until they eventually came to some kind of an agreement. After that experience I started to realize just how much mediation can change things in this world. Hopefully some day nearby I will find that these mediation skills will come in handy once again.