**Pattern Name:**
Mentors
**Introduction:**
Informal educators and guides are more desired than teachers or bosses.
**CONTEXT:**
In civil society, outside formal organizations, people want and need access to friendly expertise and wisdom that directly supports their current civic aspirations and action.
**PROBLEM:**
**We often don't know enough to succeed at our civic aspirations.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Organize likely mentors to support civic action. Organize civic activists to access these mentors.**
**Actions:**
**Consequences:**
**Known Uses:**
**RELATED PATTERNS:**
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Mentors are wise guides. Personal wisdom need not be created from scratch.
Each neighborhood should create their own list of mentors.
Below is my partial list at this moment.
# Mentors to the ReLocalize Creativity Enterprise * [ ] Ward Cunningham * [ ] Paul Rodwell * [ ] Eric Dobbs * [ ] Carl McDaniels * [ ] Dave Snowden * [ ] Peter Robertson * [ ] Allena Leonard * [ ] Jon Walker * [ ] Angela Espinosa * [ ] Kerry Turner * [ ] Göran Henricks * [ ] Bob Bollen * [ ] * [ ]
# Mentors to neighborhoods * [ ] Carl McDaniels * [ ] * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
# System Practitioners and Mentors * [ ] Kerry Turner * [ ] Peter Robertson * [ ] Mick Ashby * [ ] John Vodonick * [ ] Claudius Van Wyk * [ ] Jennifer Driscoll * [ ] Denise Brouder * [ ] Richard Knowles * [ ] * [ ]
# Program / Domain Specific Mentors
Localize Leadership * [ ] Carl McDaniels * [ ] * [ ]
Relocalize Cooperatives * [ ] Chris
ReLocalize Ethics, Power, Action, Conversation, Decision-making, Conflict Resolution * [ ] William Smith * [ ] Ward Cunningham * [ ] John Vodonic * [ ] Mick Ashby * [ ] Claudius Van Wyk * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Governing * [ ] Lowell Christy * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Housing and Real Estate * [ ] Bob Sadler * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Education * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Farming * [ ] Family Farm--Aidan Ward * [ ] Industrial Scale--Marcus Link * [ ] Syntropic Agriculture--Rass?
ReLocalize Business * [ ] Jon Walker * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Banking * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Infrastructure * [ ] Carl McDaniels * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Wellbeing * [ ] Kristi Sletti * [ ] Bill Lombard * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Medical Care * [ ] Marc Pierson * [ ] Mary Minetti * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize the Internet * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Money * [ ] John Waters * [ ] * [ ]
ReLocalize Systems Modeling * [ ] Kerry Turner * [ ] Marc Pierson * [ ] Dov Dori * [ ] Jack Homer * [ ] Peter Robertson * [ ] * [ ] * [ ]