“If I don’t get lost, I will never find a new route”: Engaging with my mentee in my first mentoring session

OpenAlex İngilizce

This article elaborates on an online mentoring session conducted with a colleague who has 17 years of experience as an EFL instructor at a university, in Turkey. Specifically, this article describes instances where three positive emotions occurred, namely, joy, interest, and serenity (Fredrickson, 1998). The session was a part of the assignments in an advisor training course, and the purpose was firstly to practice what is referred to as intentional reflective dialogue (IRD; Kato & Mynard, 2016), using advising strategies and a tool called picture of life (POL; Kato, 2017). The analysis of the excerpts from the session showed that the utilization of advising strategies and POL unearthed three positive emotions which serve certain functions in the mentee’s life.