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When you're the oldest person in creative mentorship programs

Everyone in my mentor's program is twenty years younger than me and I feel too old to be starting over but too inexperienced to belong anywhere else

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Age-related displacement in learning environments can create a sense of being between worlds, neither beginner nor peer, complicating the mentorship dynamic.

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“Where Are You with Mentorship in creative work?”

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