At The Mentor Training (TMT), every individual holds the power to inspire and uplift others. Founded in 2022, our mission is to transform mentoring by fostering a culture where integrity, education, and personal transformation are at the heart of every mentor’s journey.
Mentoring is the act of guiding someone. Not everyone can mentor. To do it well, you need skills, tools and ethics. We are dedicated to educating mentors and equipping them not only with progressive skills but with the wisdom to create safe, inclusive, and emotionally intelligent spaces. Our approach goes beyond traditional training: we nurture holistic development, encouraging mentors to embody kindness, clarity, and care in every interaction.
Mentoring, for us, is more than sharing knowledge. It is about bridging the gap between learning and lived experience. We honour the sacred responsibility of guiding others, and we believe true transformation arises from authentic relationships built on trust and connection.
Through TMT, mentors are taught how to hold space that is both structured and deeply human. Rooted in psychology and relational intelligence, our training cultivates integrity and presence, guiding mentors to support their mentees in discovering their fullest potential. We are committed to making psycho-emotional support as aspirational and accessible as physical health, revolutionising how mentoring is perceived and practised.
Join us in redefining mentorship. At The Mentor Training, education leads to transformation, and integrity is the foundation of every mentor’s path.
Our training includes:
- A curriculum that is rigorous and real: no quick fixes, no superficial frameworks, no fluff.
- A community that values depth, trust and practice.
- A credential that speaks to your competence, your values, and your professionalism.
Join us if you’re ready to bring humanness back into the world.
If you have read about The Mentor Training and explored the Frequently Asked Questions and want to know if this training is right for you, we’d love to hear from you.
Meet the team
About Vienda
Founder of The Mentor Training
I didn’t set out to start a training. I was working with people one-on-one — hundreds over the years — and I loved the quiet, human work of it. Two people telling the truth to each other. Slow, private change.
What I didn’t love was watching the wider field drift into something else. Helping people started to look like a performance. Words like “embodiment” and “authenticity” took on a strange life of their own, often used by people who hadn’t lived the things they were teaching. I remember scrolling through Instagram and feeling uneasy. The work had lost some of its grounding.
Meanwhile, my clients kept asking me to teach them how I mentored. How to create safety, how to stay attuned, how to hold space without disappearing into someone else’s story. I said no for a long time, and then eventually, yes. That yes became The Mentor Training.
Before that, I spent a decade working closely with people in a way that was both spiritual and practical. I’ve never believed those are opposites. Growth is transcendent and ordinary at the same time. It’s crying in the car after therapy and then going home to pay your bills. It’s having uncomfortable conversations. It’s learning not to abandon yourself. None of this is glamorous; all of it is real.
That realism is what this training was built on.
When I look at the helping professions, the missing piece isn’t skill. It’s alignment. Integrity, to me, means your words and actions match. It’s noticing when you’ve slipped out of alignment and choosing to repair instead of pretending.
I see mentorship as one of the oldest forms of human support. It sits somewhere between therapy and coaching. The role an older sibling, teacher, or community elder might play. A mentor doesn’t rescue you. They walk with you. They offer their experience as a small light.
Most people who arrive here have already been holding others for years: therapists, coaches, teachers, guides, friends. You’re the person people confide in. You’re intuitive, attuned, and steady, but you want a framework that matches the level of care you already give.
By the end of the training, you have language for what you’ve always done instinctively. You know how to hold boundaries without shutting down, how to guide without overreaching, how to listen without absorbing. You feel clearer in who you are and what you offer. You trust yourself more.
That’s really the point: becoming steadier in who you already are.
If I could leave you with one thing, it’s this: you don’t have to be perfect to be a mentor. You just have to be real. Growth is repetitive, unflashy, sometimes boring. And also, somehow, the most beautiful work there is.
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.
About Natasha
Director of The Mentor Training
“I joined the mentoring team in May 2025, and it felt like coming home.”
My path began like with many others; as someone who naturally walked beside others through life’s changes, long before I had a name for it. In search of a name, I studied psychology and spent the last 15 years working across sectors as both a practitioner and a leader.
As a mentor, I support people through raw, real complexities of life: substance misuse, trauma recovery, sexuality, relationships, career transitions. I help people to name their truth, become self advocates, and learn the tools to live freely as themselves, before the world told them who to be and what to do. It’s been a beautiful mix of humanness, and a gift.
My biggest sadness during that time was witnessing systems, and professionals within them, claim to ‘support’ people, while failing to see the whole person. So much of the helping world feels clinical and detached. People become case files, behaviours and diagnosis, discussed in meetings to decide if their ‘symptoms’ meet a threshold for treatment. People are complex, feeling beings with complicated lived experience. Working and managing services felt like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound. So, I stepped away from the sector and into something deeper.
I know that the most transformative moments happen in relationship. Not because of the title on the door, letters in your email signature, or how many followers you have on instagram… but because you make a choice to sit with someone, to see them, and then find a way back to themselves.
Mentoring isn’t just a profession to me, it’s a revolution. A change that will help reclaim our understanding of connection. It rebuilds our senes, and reconnects us to the kind of support that sees us as whole human beings. In a world where helping spaces have become clinical, transactional and under-resourced to a point where e-learning takes centre stage for critical relational training, mentoring offers something radically different: presence, integrity, a return to deep listening in a safe, ethical way.
Mentoring is a practice that helps people move forward, not just manage their symptoms, and achieve goals. It helps people build a sense of self that embodies what it means to truly thrive. Mentoring, like psychology, is transferable. It weaves through every walk of life, often unnamed and overshadowed by more ‘respected’ titles like therapist, coach, or practitioner. But the practice itself, the heart of it – the thing that people do when they do these roles well – is mentoring. That’s why I’m here.
I’m proud to be part of The Mentor Training and help guide us to remembering the things that are deeply human and sacred, and I’m excited to be contributing to the creation of the first nationally recognised school of mentoring. A school that sets the standard for guiding others and helps create a structure for holding brave, bold spaces that honour the depth of this work and the whole human in front of us. Because people are waking up. They’re noticing, remembering, and asking themselves hard questions. People deserve better; practices that meet them where they are on their journey. Practitioners that embody ethical, integrated wisdom, and systems rooted in healthy relationship.
This is the next evolution of human support. And I’m here for it.
About Jim
Quality Assurance and Compliance Officer of The Mentor Training
I come from a family where teaching is not just a profession, but a calling—woven into the very fabric of our existence. Our purpose has always been to guide, nurture, and share wisdom, passing on not only what we have learned, but also what resonates deeply within our souls. Though my path did not lead me to a formal teaching career, I have lived by its principles, embodying the spirit of mentorship in every role I’ve held.
Wearing my military service uniform as a Sergeant Major Instructor in the Army Cadet Force for two decades, I taught young people not just discipline, but the courage to discover their true selves. This journey revealed to me how society often sets limiting expectations, yet I believe that by creating spaces filled with honesty and safety, we invite others to connect with their inner spirit, embrace self-expression, and realize their boundless potential.
Across nearly three decades, I have witnessed the many ways people are asked to conform—whether through dress codes or corporate standards. Uniforms may serve a purpose, but true identity shines when we allow individuality to flourish. In today’s world, the push for standardisation can overshadow the beauty of authentic selfhood. Too often, emotions and self-expression are suppressed to fit external expectations, and many wait for permission to pursue even the simplest acts.
My mission has always been to cultivate environments where people feel truly seen—free to embody their unique selves, beyond stereotypes, labels, or social constructs. I strive to offer opportunities for others to be more: to express, to share, to grow. In doing so, I realize that I have been a mentor all along, guiding others not just in skill, but in spirit, helping them awaken to their own possibilities and the deeper connections that unite us all.
Now, joining The Mentor Training, I feel a profound sense of alignment with its values and vision. This community’s commitment to spiritual connection, authentic embodiment, and empowering others to become more resonates deeply with my own journey. I am called to contribute, to learn, and to witness the family grow—knowing that together, we will nurture a legacy of mentorship that uplifts and transforms all who join us.
We embrace what makes us stronger…. We acknowledge the rest with grace and leave our old selves behind.
I’m so glad to be invited and welcomed to The Mentor Training by Vienda and Natasha.
Words from past students
Caroline, UK
“I will forever be grateful for this opportunity and for the wonderful work you do in this world. There really are no words to describe it. To a future student: Do it! Be ready for a journey of self-discovery on the deepest level. You will be held and supported every step of the way in the most beautiful container. Even if you are already a coach or a mentor, this training is different…unique, special and truly magical. You will not be the same person at the end of it.”
Rebecca, UK
“This training has touched me in ways I didn’t expect. It’s gently but powerfully reshaped how I see myself, others, and the path I’m walking. Personally, it’s opened my heart and softened some of the old armour I didn’t even realise I was still carrying. It’s helped me listen more deeply, not just to others, but to my own inner voice. Professionally, it’s brought a new depth and presence to how I show up. I feel more grounded, more attuned, more willing to trust the unknown.”
Liisa, Germany
“I hope you keep offering this kind of work, as I see it as immensely important and impactful to all of us. Especially in the times we are in, I think this is what is needed to create real change. Supporting each other in coming back to ourselves, to a regulated state of being, connected to our inner world, our core values, our intuition and then creating life from this place with intention and discernment. What a world we could live in if it were created from the truth of who we really are.”
Olivia, United Arab Emirates
“I feel my quiet strength is gaining volume. The training has been an initiation to own that I have offerings and wisdom to share with the world. Even though I’m still wrestling with the parts that yearn for the comfort of safety, I’m working it all out. I have a deep knowing that I am capable, and the training showed me that. By the end, I had such a deeper respect for showing up even though it wasn’t perfect. Thank you.
Future student: Do it!! It’s a journey worth voyaging!”
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