The Mission
Foston Institute for Holistic Mentoring:
is a consulting, training and self-publishing company whose mission is to guide as many people to adulthood as possible. The problem is that adolescence is overcrowded! It is filled with children who have been catapulted there too soon thereby depriving them of their childhood. It is also filled with adult -looking people who never left. So it doesn't leave much room the teens who desperately need to be there! Because so many young people are being crowded out of their developmental period, they are becoming more susceptible to the Addiction to Hopelessness
The Philosophy
It is the philosophy of the Foston Institute that every teen has at least one gift that needs to be found and nurtured. That gift becomes the focal point of the plan to get them safely to adulthood. If young people are unable to find their gift/gifts, it makes their addiction to hopelessness more difficult to treat. Many young people must be assisted in finding their gifts and need to be mentored holistically. In the advertisements for traditional mentoring . they have a slogan that "Anyone can be a mentor". We do not agree with that philosophy! Holistic mentoring demands that Holistic Mentors must be more whole than the teens they are trying to help.