Quote Originally Posted by Ragoczy View Post
Oz,

No, I'm looking for a model of a formal mentoring process that works in order to learn about what works in the programs that have lasted for a while. Where I've seen groups try to set up something formal, it's tended to only last a little while -- typically when the one or two passionate participants move on.

Also not mentoring in the sense of teaching particular techniques, but rather in its form of providing general guidance to those new to the lifestyle.

I did my little stint of technique learning twenty years ago.
I think the best places for that are online forums... because everyone is predisposed to discussion.

When it happens in real life, all too often a sense of entitlement grows on the mentors... and they begin to consider their ways the only ways and pretty soon any real mentoring disappears.