Looping Mentorship: Strategies for effective mentorship from below

Mentoring programs and relationships can be an effective tool for addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Common misconceptions about the mentoring process frame mentoring as a hierarchical, transactional process. Healthy and effective mentoring relationships are mutually beneficial and respectful, with looping mentoring programs predicated on mutual accommodation. This talk addresses effective habits of mentoring from the perspective of the mentee. Strategies for participating in mentoring relationships are presented, with the goal of empowering mentees to engage in mentoring as co-collaborators.