Episode 5: Meeting the Mentor: Opening your mind to curiosity, learning and encouragement

Mindful Conversations, with Shamash & Calvin

Shamash and Calvin embark on the next leg of the Hero's Journey, weaving mindful storytelling with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

This week, the Meeting with the Mentor: how our mentors can be people who've brought impact into our lives, but could equally be other sources of inspiration: books, films, even podcasts.

In this episode:

• Social entrepreneur Kush Kanodia speaks to the value of finding a mentor.
• Dr Wendy Molefi sets out the benefits of speaking with someone close – a friend or a colleague – to help you shift a difficult problem.
• Speaking of shifting a problem, therapist Mari Williams describes how she encourages her clients to see her work as helping to roll a heavy boulder uphill.
• Dr Vikki Barnes shares the introduction to the world of psychology that would go on to shape her career.
• Dr Mehwish Sharif explores at the benefits of working with someone who has walked your same journey, and can act as a guide.
• Dr Steven Hayes, Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada and the originator of ACT, shares his powerful realisation around accepting anxiety rather than letting panic set in.

Next week, we cross the threshold.

Mindful Conversations is hosted by mindfulness teacher Shamash Alidina and mindful storyteller Calvin Niles.