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RE: Mentors - 6/1/2007 8:25:50 PM

LadyHugs

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Dear new2thisinFL, Ladies and Gentlemen;

There are a few groups in Florida. If you Google BDSM Florida or Florida BDSM, it may bring up a list of local groups in your area.

Master Jazz and stewart siegel his slave, run the web site "Fetish Alliance." The Fetish Alliance draws information in for one and all.
This includes groups that cover Florida and Nationwide. My written works are on CD-Rom file there, as well as with the Leather Archives and Museum.

In addition, LadyHeart wrote very well on what the considerations you may have before picking a mentor.

I have mentored many individuals and have enjoyed their growth into becoming their own person within the community, to which some have been presenters in their own right.

Education, knowledge, information and or skills are often freely given without any strings attached. However, at times people have assumed that it is a person's duty to share what they know. Having "first hand knowledge," its owned and those who share do so with the desire to make another person's journey into the lifestyle a bit easier.
Not bypass the journey itself.

Good luck to you.

Respectfully submitted for consideration,
Lady Hugs

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RE: Mentors - 6/1/2007 10:41:51 PM

robertolapiedra

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Hello LadyHeart. Great post.

I have mentored in the past and am mentoring now in the present. Not once did I "offer" mentoring to someone. It always starts with a first question, then a second, then a third....first thing you know you have a constant "helping" relationship that may be called "mentoring".

I have been mentored (helped out) by what I consider first class people. I am more than happy to pay my debt to them by "passing on their wisdom" plus what I may have accumulated in knowledge, experience in what I consider to be the least "mentored" part of BDSM, that being the longterm D/s relationship.

A mentor should not train the ones he/she helps, a trainer should not mentor the ones he/she trains. This is called credibility. RL.

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