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Education and Learning

Mentoring & Mental Health:

How Coaching can improve

wellbeing?

Traditionally coaching and mentoring have
sometimes been viewed as tools that are
used to help with career advancement, but
that isn’t their only use. They can be used
very effectively to support users in many
other aspects of working life, including
supporting well-being and mental health.

“A mentor empowers a person to see a
possible future, and believe it can be
obtained” – Shawn Hitchcock

This quote is a perfect example of how
mentoring not only focuses on career
progression but on a personal one too.

As remote working and technological
advances means that the line between
work and home life becomes more
blurred, more focus is being put on our
well-being and mental health.
Mental health is something that we all have
and it moves up and down along a spectrum
from good to poor. Considering how much
time we spend at work, it’s not surprising that
workplace environments and culture have a
big impact on our mental health and wellbeing.
As our stress levels rise our mental health can
become impacted and our mental health can
decline.

A Harvard Business Review survey of 140
coaches who had been hired to coach company
executives found that during the coaching
sessions personal issues came up 76% of the
time.
One of the tools that can be used to effectively
support good mental health and well-being
is coaching and mentoring. Health coaching
is defined as a service in which providers
facilitate participants in changing lifestyle-
related behaviours for improved health and
quality of life, or establishing and attaining
health promoting goals

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