The Wiley International Handbook of Mentoring

34Dynamic Model of Collaborative Mentorship: Agency, Values, Engagement, Patterns, and Roles

Barbara Trube, Dianne Gut, Pam Beam, and Beth VanDerveer

Ohio University, USA

In recent years, mentoring models have expanded from traditional approaches that tend to involve a single mentee and mentor in which roles are fairly rigid, with the mentor serving as a guide and expert, to models where multiple individuals engage in mentoring activities in which mentor/mentor roles and mentoring purposes are fluid (Kochan, 2014; Mullen, 2012). While these innovative models appear to offer new opportunities to transform individuals and organizations, there is little research about their structure and operations. This chapter presents insights into a transformative collaborative mentoring relationship among four individuals, which has been in operation for five years. The authors engaged in an in‐depth analysis of the endeavor, resulting in the creation of a Dynamic Model of Collaborative Mentorship that can be used to guide others in creating similar mentoring relationships and programs and which should foster additional research on collaborative mentoring models.

The chapter begins with a description of our study, which is based on analytic autoethnography (Anderson, 2006). Next, we introduce the nature, establishment, and purposes of our unique mentoring Community of Practice (CoP), known as Design Team VII, followed by findings and a discussion of relevant themes. Finally, we contribute ...