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Mentor's Field Guide · No. 06

The Stages of a Mentoring Relationship

Relationships move through stages, from connection and testing to growth and closure. Expect the hard middle and stay through it.

Mentor's Field Guide #6, The Stages of a Mentoring Relationship: a Black mentor and a young man walking together on a Philadelphia sidewalk at sunset, with the quote “The hardest stage of any relationship worth having is the one right before the breakthrough. Do not quit in the middle.” — Melvin Williams Sr

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