Student and Staff Mentoring and Support
Strategic mentoring and support for both students and teachers. This support is founded on the principles of conditional expression and on the full reconciliation with the human experience.
Mentoring can take place on location, in a school or college, or online.
Currently I visit two schools spending approximately two days per week mentoring and supporting collage age students in their academic and personal lives.
The Mission – to help them fall in love with life as it is. Not lead them to thinking it should be something to mourn.
To make our children think life was something it never was and never will be is one of the cruellest attacks our world has inflicted upon life.
Below is an extract from the book, 22 Days of God and the Fight for Life, Day 9, Page 80
‘Education attacks the true nature of children.
No school should ever dangle a life of great achievement in front of a group of children as if that was the benchmark to adhere to.
When it comes to humanity such people form the minority.
We should not, if the psychological safety of young people is a genuine concern, flaunt fame and greatness before their eyes.
We should make ample space for them to work out who they are. In this way the achievers will still become the achievers.
The plodders will become the plodders.
Those who need to take more time will take more time.
And so on.
By all means, offer guidance and support.
Have it all at the ready.
But a child should never be attacked by someone telling them what they should be, or that anything beneath greatness and high achievement in life is inadequate.
Because it will be inadequate.
And when a child begins to feel inadequate, self-loathing and hatred are never far behind.
The benchmark for love and adoration in our world is aesthetic beauty and high achievement.
And we are witnessing what happens to those who believe what they are, falls well short of the benchmark.
I work with a beautiful soul who spent years starving herself to try and overcome being tall. And yet, basketball is her passion.
She was born for it.
But the world attacked her.
In our world, even many of those who have been able to tick both boxes – that of aesthetic beauty and high achieving – believe they are still well short of the mark.
Living in a state of inadequacy.
And I am talking about children.
Life’s most beautiful and fragile demographic.
The component of life that should be the most light and liberated is under attack by our world.
And by the world of education.
The industry that should protect them from an abusive world is playing its own role in the abuse.
Children ought not be told they should be the ‘best version’ of themselves.
They should be taught that caring for life as it has asked to be cared is their greatest purpose.
And that being born is the reason to celebrate.
Not to mourn.
Contact Me at tim@timguthrie.co (not com) if you would like to explore working together.