Mentoring by Jack Manning Bancroft

Author:Jack Manning Bancroft
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Published: 2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

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On 22 March 2017, JMB sat down the AIME staff at our training and development day in Sydney and introduced a new aspect to AIME sessions. It was called ‘failure time’. His introduction was met with puzzled faces. One person asked, ‘But what if kids go back to school and say they were taught to fail?’

Jack explained that AIME will remove the stigma of shame that comes from trying, that we will teach kids that failure is where the magic happens. We make failure normal. If you walked into failure time at one of our university campuses, you would see a group of kids making up a play as others gather around a local Elder to hear stories and learn language from times gone by. You’d see kids delivering speeches, creating plays, making art, discussing ideas and pushing boundaries. Why? Because that’s where learning happens. We learn from our failures and we grow. We test the waters by dipping our feet in, we decide it’s too cold and then we dive in anyway. We get so far out of our comfort zone that shame becomes non-existent.

When I think of all the people I consider to be brave, I realise that bravery means many different things. Sometimes bravery means getting out of your everyday life and making a connection with a complete stranger, like Kimberley and I did. Or reaching out to someone in pain, like Riegs did. Or radiating compassion and kindness from wherever you are, like Jack does.

Sometimes it means you stand out from the crowd, you speak up for yourself or for others. Sometimes it means you can remove yourself from toxic situations; it can mean you fight for your life or accept defeat; it can mean you search for people who make you feel alive, or it makes you grateful and content with your present moment. Whatever your idea of bravery is, it is to be authentic to yourself and your beliefs. It is to be alive and to live in such a way that the world knows you are afraid, but you love more than you fear.

Failure and bravery come hand in hand. They both are an outcome that requires a sometimes painful process. AIME has allowed me to accept fear of failure and discomfort, but to go beyond it and do whatever I set my mind to.

AIME has taught me to be brave.

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