A mentor is an individual with expertise who can help develop a mentee’s career. The psychosocial function establishes the mentor as a role model and support system for the mentee. Both functions provide explicit and implicit lessons related to professional development and general work-life balance. Successful mentoring relationships go through four phases: preparation, negotiating, enabling growth, and closure. These sequential phases build on each other and vary in length. The psychology of mentoring isn’t a scary subject that needs to be remembered word for word when becoming a mentor. It is just right to know how the thought process works from a mentee aspect, so you can focus on their strengths and help improve aspects of their working lives. By identifying talents and skills, the mentorship becomes instantly more productive. Positive psychology works on what is going well and what can be broadened, not focusing on problems like ill-health as traditional psychology does. The Pauline Theology of mentoring will provide the basis of this course’s theological theory