When I work with families there are two questions to which I seek answers from each family member at the beginning of our journey together. What are you passionate about and who is your mentor?
The first question is designed to discover the unique journey to which each individual family member is called. The second question is designed to learn how each family member is pursuing his or her calling, since I am certain that no one can successfully pursue his or her journey of life-long learning without the mentor needed for that stage of the journey.
King Phillip of Macedonia understood this fact when he called on Aristotle to mentor his own Alexander to prepare Alexander to be the King of Macedonia. Phillip knew that he had taught Alexander all he could as his father. For the young man to move to the next stage of his journey, he needed a mentor. Little did Phillip know that by choosing Aristotle the mentor would turn the boy not only into a king but into the Emperor of the World, Alexander the Great.
