Masonic Mentoring Group

The Mentoring Process

Rulers’ Forum Groups 1, 4 and 8 were given the task of identifying and collating best practice from Mentoring Schemes across the country.

At the start of the Initiation Ceremony the candidate is told that he can “follow your leader with a firm but humble confidence” and so begins a symbolical journey from darkness to light, from ignorance to Masonic Knowledge. The Mentor will be the new mason’s guide, leader and coach once the ceremony has finished – he will explain not only the workings, traditions and organisation of the Craft, but also lift the veil of allegory and reveal the meaning behind the symbols so that the new mason can enjoy and understand the organisation that he has joined.

Thus the whole focus of Masonic Mentoring is to enable the new mason to grow in knowledge, involvement and confidence so that he can benefit from and enjoy his membership.

The following downloadable PDF is not designed to be prescriptive; the material it contains can be used by Provinces as they wish, according to the level of mentoring that they already provide. If necessary, the material can be used to implement a mentoring scheme by a Province that does not currently use mentoring – an  ‘off the shelf’ solution as it were. But, in many Provinces mature, well managed schemes already exist, and they may wish only to select that material which can support their existing programme.

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