How it works
When you subscribe to the course you will be assigned to one of the Mentors. This may be based on your particular needs (because some of the Mentors are more adept at odd-bell methods than others) or just whichever of the Mentors has capacity to take on another student. We use the term ‘student’ for lack of anything else to call someone who is taking part in this programme!
There are only a certain number of Mentors, and assignment to a Mentor is based on one of them having time to take on another student. There may therefore be a delay before you can start. If the number of people waiting builds up then more Mentors will be recruited.
Your email address will also be added to a Yahoo Group because we need to have a way of contacting all of the students periodically, either to check that things are progressing alright or for general announcements.
Your correspondence with your Mentor will be via your and their personal email addresses. We tried using a single central email address and it didn’t work. The conversations will be stored and used to update the FAQs on an anonymous basis.
The Mentors themselves will not proactively chase you to find out how you are getting on. The Mentors will be reactive, not proactive. There is good reason for this. Asking the Mentors to be proactive would be asking a great deal, and conducting is something that is learned at one’s own pace.
If you ask a question of your Mentor and then do not receive a reply for what appears to be too long, then please send an email to conduct5040@googlemail.com and I will see what has happened.