Mentor and Mentee Roles and Responsibilities

The AMTA Mentoring Program is a way to build connections between experienced massage therapists and those starting their careers. Understanding your role and responsibilities within the mentor-mentee relationship will better enable you to reach all of your desired goals.

First Steps

Mentor:

• Outline professional skills you are able to offer help with as a mentor
• Mentor with a realistic assessment of your skills and experience

Mentee:

• Outline professional goals that you need help achieving
• Select a mentor based on criteria relevant to your goals

Communicating Expectations

Mentor:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentee
• Create a plan with your mentee of how to achieve milestones on the way to reaching their goals
• Adapt your feedback to your mentee’s learning and communication styles
• Set realistic timelines

Mentee:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentor
• Discuss your goals with your mentor and create a plan of how you will achieve milestones on the way to reaching your goals
• Inform your Mentor about your learning and communication preferences
• Set realistic timelines

Working Together

Mentor:

• Advise your mentee on what you know and admit the things you don’t know so they can seek help elsewhere for those things
• Build on your mentee’s strengths and recognize their weaknesses
• Offer constructive feedback
• Evaluate progress
• Be your mentee’s cheerleader when they progress toward or reach their goals
• Be consistent and reliable

Mentee:

• Listen and contribute to the conversation
• Understand that your mentor will not have all the answers, and be prepared to seek out other resources as needed
• Accept constructive feedback
• Evaluate progress
• Celebrate success and assess any shortcomings
• Be consistent and reliable

Conclusion and Follow-Up

Mentor:

• Follow up on successes
• Provide an evaluation of the experience
• Thank your mentee
• Repeat the mentoring process with other massage therapists

Mentee:

• Update your mentor on your continued success
• Provide an evaluation of the experience
• Thank your mentor
• Volunteer to become an AMTA mentor

Volunteer to Be a Mentor

Give back to the massage therapy community! Share your professional experiences and knowledge with AMTA members who have just entered the massage therapy profession.

BE A MENTOR

Find a Mentor

Build connections with experienced AMTA members and get your massage career started off on the right foot.

FIND A MENTOR

Not yet a member? Join AMTA to take advantage of this member benefit!