MENTORING MEN
“I want to see us winning at manhood!”
Every man should have a “MAN” mentor and mentoring men is my passion. Mentoring men is a free service that carefully matches you with another adult male who is trained to listen, support and help you to define your goals in life. Mentoring Men also provides referrals to other professional service providers depending on your needs.
The purpose of a mentor is to promote the mental and physical well-being of each man, provide an assessment of who they are and to ensure personal success along the way. This mentoring platform was created as an environment to help guide mentees into a greater future by helping them navigate obstacles along life's journey or navigate some of the past pressures and traumas that continue to hold them back from being all they can be.
I believe it is the responsibility of the male leaders to steer our young boys and men towards integrity, accountability, emotional literacy, truth and service. In doing so, they will gain more essential tools to get through adolescence, that epic transition into adulthood. Let’s not forget adult males who have been raised without proper guidance and seek to improve themselves. Mentors are important their lives as well. Let’s reduce responses such as, “I was never taught how.” or “No one ever talked or taught me about…” and afford every the opportunity to be and do better.
This mentoring platform provides: one-on-one as well as group life coaching and mentoring. In order to have a successful mentorship platform one has to offer both structure and flexibility. Structure provides participants a workflow to follow to achieve set goals. Similarly, flexibility is essential to support varying individual mentoring needs across specific goals.
Mentoring relationships can be formal or informal with substantial variation, but the essential components include creating caring, empathetic, consistent, and long-lasting relationships, often with some combination of role modeling, teaching, and advising.
Benefits of Being Mentored
Mentoring is often one component of a program that involves other elements, such as tutoring or life skills training and life coaching. The supportive, healthy relationships formed between mentors and mentees are both immediate and long-term and contribute to a host of benefits for mentors and mentees.
“Building a life of significance, and creating a legacy of real value, means being willing to get your hands dirty. It means being willing to step out in your life and onto the platforms of influence you’ve been given and touch the lives of people in need. Whether it’s in your business, your school, your community, or your family, if you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high. Mentors build mentors. Leaders build leaders. When you look at it closely, it’s really one and the same thing.”
–Tony Dungy, Former NFL Coach
Mentoring has also been linked in studies to social-emotional development benefits, improvements in perception.
There are some lessons and bits of wisdom that only a man can impart to another man. We love out women, however men and women are different. We view, are see and interact with the world differently. So it makes sense for men to seek out other men for guidance on how to navigate life.
In addition to providing some guidance in navigating through life as a man, mentors can expand one’s view of what it means to be a man. Every man has had different life experiences and been exposed to different philosophies and worldviews. They can help you see things a different way, inspire you to dare greatly, comfort you when you grieve, and help you become a better man.
“I WANT TO SEE US WINNING AT MANHOOD!”
Benefits to mentees:
Gain practical advice, encouragement and support
Gather knowledge from the experiences of others
Become more empowered
Develop communication skills
Better attention to detail
Enhanced self-esteem and self-confidence
Improved outlook on life
Learn to build and sustain stronger relationships
Improved interpersonal skills
Increased patience
Understanding of accountability
Creation of a network of support
INTENTION
THE STARKE NAKED TRUTH is a platform for men to communicate in judgement free settings with other men who share similar or familiar life experiences; creating and environment that fosters helping one another learn and grow.
PURPOSE
The purpose is to be a source of information, testimony and uplift to men, especially men of color. I want to share my passion for wanting to be the best man I can be with those who seek to do the same and together we can live as the leaders we are meant to be.
We must dismantled the myth that men and boys don’t need comfort, concern or affection. For many years, I was broken and didn’t know it. As my story unfolds you’ll understand why I say to other men, “If you’ve gone through something once I’m sure I’ve been through it twice.” I want to encourage men to accept what has been as lessons. Then to use those lessons as tools to teach.
❝WE WON’T FIND THE SOLUTIONS UNTIL WE ADDRESS PROBLEMS.❞
Lets speak on topics concerning mental health, incarceration, sexuality, parenthood, depression, insecurity, etc…subjects often viewed as taboo in our communities and oftentimes the reason we struggle to evolve.