Mullen C.A.

Sustaining mentoring communities of practice. The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching, 9(2), 10-19 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.62935/r2010y

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Abstract

Interest in wellbeing is growing, but it needs to be clearly connected to mentoring, which has a significant wellbeing element (psychosocial function). Career support, measured by metrics of success, is also crucial. The need to incorporate wellbeing into mentoring initiatives has been recognized for achieving mentoring goals that benefit students, faculty, and leaders. Wellbeing, mentoring, and policy can be imagined as an interconnected system for promoting fulfillment. This conceptual work presents a blueprint for integrating wellbeing into mentoring practices in education. The original mentoring model features four components: support, accessibility, collaboration, and equity (SACE). SACE was derived from school/district fieldwork and analysis of mentoring research. This framework is conducive for program, leadership, and relational development and policymaking. A goal is to reimagine mentoring using SACE as a metric to gauge equity toward organizational effectiveness and health. When equity forms a key component in a wellbeing-supported mentoring initiative, manifold benefits can occur.

Keywords: Healthy community, SACE model of mentoring, theory generation, wellbeing