{"id":4869,"date":"2015-08-10T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:45:44","slug":"mentors-can-pass-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/mentors-can-pass-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What mentors can pass on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4870\" title=\"mentor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.integrationtraining.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mentor-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Last week I was working for the first time as a true colleague with one of my  four main mentors (Paul Linden). I&#8217;m still not as experienced as him of course  but I bring something to the party and we balance and learn from each other.  This is quite rare and says a lot about his strengths. Of the other three, one  taught me something of a traditional art &#8211; aikido- and also something of how to  be a good person, and then passed away (William Smith) as I was starting to use  it in novel ways. Much love. One opened doors,  connections and opportunities  for me and helped me see what was possible in life before letting me move on in  my own way (Don Levine). Much love. And one taught me a lot and kick-started my  career before being caught in a couple of unhealthy cultural traps related to  ownership and inter-generational dynamics. Much love and also sadness. These  four cases show me something of what is possible to pass on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was working for the first time as a true colleague with one of my four main mentors (Paul Linden). I&#8217;m still not as experienced as him of course but I bring something to the party and we balance and learn from each other. This is quite rare and says a lot about his strengths. Of the other three, one taught me something of a traditional art &#8211; aikido- and also something of how to be a good person, and then passed away (William Smith) as I was starting to use it in novel ways. Much love. One <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[560],"tags":[1490,1512,1513,1835],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-1gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}