Mentoring
Ms Montfort
12

"That's great, isn't it? I tell you something that practically no-one else knows. I trust you with it, and you shrug me off in the direction of a shrink! I tell you why I'm putting so much into my work and why it means so much to me and all you can do is suggest I'm mixed up!"

"Get lost! I'm off. I want a change of mentor and if you so much as breathe a suggestion of what I've told you to anyone at all I'll... I don't know what the procedure is, but I'll have you ..."

Do you:

12.1

Let her go?

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12.2

Try to re-coup the situation: explain that helping with such feelings is beyond your brief and competence?

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12.3

Point out that such a reaction is immature, and if she is like that with her students it's not surprising they don't work for her?

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© James Atherton>
13 December 2001

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