Mentoring with Darryl Slim, Traditional Wellness Educator

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I am Pamela Slim, and Darryl and I co-founded the K'é Community Lab, where we provide space, healing and support for BIPOC entrepreneurs in our local community. I am also a long-time business coach and writer. Here is more about our project:
https://pamelaslim.com/ke

In his mentoring services, Darryl works with select wellness and healing professionals who are willing to learn more about his wellness approach. They work together to more clearly define their idea of what healing is, as well as their own identity as a person and healer.

Darryl and I talk through ways to honor how he shares his medicine ways and teachings with different communities while also attending to our real-world needs as parents of college-age children and all that entails.

Traditionally within the Diné community, there are known ways to provide mentoring for the next generation of healers.

When working outside of his clan community, we approach Darryl's services as any wellness educator would, while knowing that there is not such a clear delineation of "I give you this fee and you give me this service," since when prayer is involved, sometimes time and preparation do not fit neatly into hourly containers, as it would for a coach or a therapist. Darryl often spends hours or days getting ready for a one or two hour session, involving prayer, visits to the desert to gather medicine, and preparation of medicine bundles.

Here are ways to engage with Darryl to honor this balance:

Mentoring services

Darryl meets with mentoring clients on an an individual basis to determine their vision and interests. He then makes a plan with them to determine a timeframe and structure for the mentoring.

This could include:

• Phone or Zoom calls
• In-person visits to Mesa, Arizona
• Travel to the mentee site
• Participation in ceremonies led by Darryl

Considerations:

• Mentoring is a deep and involved process, and involves both conversations and visits to nature.
• Mentoring is a commitment and requires a financial investment. Mentees need to be in a place where the investment will not cause financial hardship
• Once a mentoring plan is in place, fees can range from $300 for a one-time 90-minute mentoring session to 3-month mentoring season packages.

Sign up process:

• To sign up for a one-time 90 minute mentoring session, send your offering of $300 to pam@pamelaslim.com on PayPal (our business name is Ganas Consulting LLC), and put "Darryl Slim mentoring" in the note. If you need to use another method of payment, send an email to pam@pamelaslim.com with your desired method of payment and we will set it up. Offering is established before scheduling the mentoring session with Darryl