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Welcome to the conversation.

I’ve been inviting a number of people I know to look at the International Mentoring Network event due to happen in the UK (Sheffield) in October this year, as I think this would be something they’d really find empowering. A number have asked me about what it entails, including how it differs from other leadership mentoring and development experiences that are already available.

In reply, I have been sharing how extraordinary I have personally found the whole thing to be: the ideas that are explored, the interaction that takes place between participants who are on the same page and dive straight into all that’s explored, and the significant knowledge and encouragement of one-another, but, these words from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describe the IMN experience so very well:

Certain environments have a greater density of interaction and provide more excitement and a greater effervescence of ideas; therefore they prompt the person who is already inclined to break away from conventions to experiment with novelty more readily than if he or she had stayed in a more conservative, more repressive setting (Creativity).

Two things to note: the environment itself, and the people who are drawn into it.  What do you think?

How does such an environment sound to you?

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