The speaker says mentoring can be formal or informal and that a mentor need not be in the workplace. The speaker recommends UX Brighton's speed-matching event as one route into finding a mentor. The speaker describes sharing coping mechanisms and alternative techniques with a dyslexic mentee. The speaker says she and a mentee are both neurodiverse and can share lived experience. The speaker includes work-life balance among the workplace boundaries mentors should help mentees understand. The speaker makes self-care part of the mentoring journey and says mentors should give some time back to themselves.
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Jessica Squires