Mentoring

Team Members

Rosa NomenIQS - URL, Barcelonarosa.nomen@iqs.url.edu
Luis Aaron MartinezUCA El Salvadorlamartinez@uca.edu.sv 

Julià Sempere

IQS‐URL, Barcelona, Spain

julia.sempere@iqs.url.edu 

Carlos Campos

UNICAP, Pernambuco

cacamposconsultoria@gmail.com 

Llorenc Puig, SJ
IQS-  URL, Barcelona
llorenc.puig@iqs.url.edu 

Benjamin Dingel

Ateneo de Manila, Philippines

bdingel@ateneo.edu 

Muhsin Elie Rahhal

St. Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon

muhsin.rahal@usj.edu.lb

IAJES Webinar Presentation Ignatian Mentoring (2).pdf

Ignatian Mentoring: A novel concept

As a theoretical foundation for this Initiative, we have prepared a framework for Ignatian Mentoring. In summary, there is a strong connection between what we define as Mentoring and Ignatian Spirituality. We aim to connect less experienced scholars with more experienced scholars within our network, to facilitate professional, personal and spiritual growth. 

Team leaders

      UCA, El Salvador

       IQS‐URL, Barcelona, Spain

St. Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon

UNICAP, Pernambuco, Brazil

AdMU, Manila, Philippines

IQS‐URL, Barcelona, Spain

Definition and Objectives:


The Mentoring Project aims to facilitate the creation of links between IAJES members. Under the umbrella of mentoring, needs, concerns, or projects can arise and can be solved without a fixed deadline. With mentoring, all participants will have the intangible reward of the benefit of the transmission of specific expertise. According to accepted definitions, Mentorship is a personal development relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.


A mentor may be older or younger but has a certain area of expertise. Here the mentor should be a professor or researcher with experience in teaching, making research projects for industry or administration, with a high capacity of listening and high doses of empathy. A mentee should be a professor or researcher who likes to change or improve something in his or her professional life. Also, due to the reality of many IAJES institutions in developing countries, some faculty have not had the opportunity to conduct many research projects or have lost track of trends in their research areas and would like to have a mentor who can guide them to find new research topics, collaboration opportunities, and develop new skills.


Mentoring generates mutual benefits between participants. Developing countries may particularly need the helping hands from the developed countries and developed countries can regain the hospitality and warm treatment of the developing countries. For us, mentoring is not any control, directive leadership, or interference with the directives received from the University of the mentee. Mentors have the experience that others, mentees, can learn from.

2021-11-15 Some ideas about Mentoring.pdf

How does it Work?

In this document, we present some general guidelines for Ignatian Mentoring. We regularly organize a call for participants, open to interested mentors and mentees within the IAJES institutions. We match mentors and mentees and initiate their interaction. The task force continuously monitors their progress and success stories. 

Main Results


First Round: 2022

36 people applied from 12 countries.


14 pairs of mentors and mentees were formed because there were more mentors than mentees. 

1 couple stopped after the mentoring goal was accomplished.

5 couples are still active. 

Second Round: 2023

45 people applied from 15 countries.


24  pairs of mentors and mentees were formed. Each member from a different institution and, when possible, with the same gender.

1 couple stopped after the mentoring goal was accomplished.

12 couples continue until now.

Institutions.pdf

Summary of Institutions

We show in this presentation how Mentoring has extended around the globe, within the IAJES network.

Some Success Stories

IQS- UCA-IAJES MENTORING PROJECT.pptx

Success Story No. 1

Dr. Violeta Martínez (UCA-El Salvador) and Dr. Rosa Nomen (IQS-Barcelona)

IAJES Mentoring Program.pptx

Success Story No. 2

Dr. Mary Joanne Aniñon(Philippines) and Dr. Francisco José Hernández Morales (Javeriana, Cali)

Good experiences in mentoring.pptx

Success Story No. 3

Dr. Edwin Isaac Rosales (UCA-El Salvador) and Dr. Karlene Hoo (Gonzaga University)

Last Webinar 

Dear Mentees and Mentors,

We want to inform you that IAJES will organize a new Webinar about Mentoring. The Webinar is scheduled for April 24, 2024, at 3:00 pm CET. During the Webinar, we will expand on the Theory of Mentoring from the Ignatian perspective and discuss key factors for maintaining a long-term mentoring relationship.

Also, if some of you would like to share your mentoring experiences, we will have a space for Presentations. Please let us know if you are interested in presenting by April 19 to help us plan the event. The Webinar program is the following:

1.    Introduction - Abstract of the last webinar

2.     Theory of Mentoring

3.     Presentations

4.     Discussion / Groups: "What are the keys for maintaining a successful Mentoring" 

5.     Conclusions

240429 Results of the questionnaire.pdf

Results from April 24 Webinar

Here we share the results from the Survey we conducted at our last Webinar.