✨ Monk mentoring a Monk = #Monktorship ✨ 😛 Hello friends! This is my weekly reflection of being a mentor for the first time after 4 years at Monks: the learnings, and some cool content we created together throughout the week. After a dreamy summer month of July, a fresh new chapter has started for both me and my brilliant mentee Dylan Sophy. As Hyper Island alumni, we started the first day with a POD- Point Of Departure. It's a tool that allows you and your team to map out the goals, visions, and how you will get there together. Then, we were ready for some action! We filmed our first content on the rooftop, crafted a script, and played some pingpong of course 🏓 These moments brought me back to the time when 4 years ago in 2020, I and my creative partner Ljuba Grishkina were interns and took each day as a gift for learning something new and experimenting with endless energy. Being a mentor requires quite a bit of preparation and investment of time and energy to be fair if you want your mentee to feel safe and cared about. However, now that we spent the first week together with Dylan, I feel like I'm learning perhaps as much as Dylan is learning by his attitude, energy and open-mindedness. I'm learning to create safe space, give feedback in a way that communicates my genuine intention, and most importantly building that trust to be an ultimate team. I'm curious to hear YOUR thoughts too on mentorhip. How do you approach this growth journey as a mentor? What's one thing you'd wish during your internship as a mentee? 🎤 Can't wait to hear your insights, experiences and two cents for me to become a better mentor 🥸 Ok friends, see you on the next one.
So cool jieun! 🔥
I love this! What a full circle moment for you, Jieun!
And WHAT a Monktor you are! Looking forward to this partnership and all the things that will come out of it!!
Content Creator | Photographer | Retoucher | Videographer | Video editor | Color grading | Creative
1moHahaha the pictures 💀 Jieun you’re an great mentor. ⭐️ You truly inspire me with your engagement! I look forward to to learn from you, create content, pitch ideas, but also to inspire with my perspectives. These 5 months are going to be epic and I can’t wait to continue. 🔥