IACTM-accredited diplomaOnline learning
You access demanding content whenever you want, from any device: frameworks, methods, mentoring situations analyzed and annotated, and application exercises.
Diploma program · 100 % online
Mentor
Put your experience at the service of someone else, without imposing it - become the practitioner who passes on what they've learned and guides without directing. A fully online professional mentoring program, designed for experienced professionals.
Hours, support and price
151 hTotal training time
2 hOf one-to-one video coaching, included
€800incl. tax, i.e. €67 per month over 12 months
Price subject to a pathway adjusted following the diagnostic interview.
What the price includes2 hours of one-to-one video coaching with your referent, to be scheduled freely across your program. This volume is the same for every learner on this program: it is not decided at the diagnostic. It comes with unlimited e-mail support - as many questions as you need on content, deliverables and method, answered within 72 working hours. If you want more video time, additional 4-hour packages (€300, i.e. +€25/month) can be added at any point.
The promise
What you'll actually be able to do.
By the end of this program, you practice mentoring with the rigor of a professional ethical framework and the generosity of an expert who has something to pass on.
You know how to analyze a professional situation in depth, formalize a mentoring relationship over several months, share your experience without prescribing it, and support a mentee through sometimes pivotal transitions. You take your place in a demanding professional community, able to situate your practice within the challenges of the organizations you support.
- Practice mentoring within a rigorous ethical framework and pursue your ongoing professional development.
- Establish and maintain a solid working alliance with the mentee.
- Analyze a request in depth and conduct a skills diagnostic.
- Co-build an individualized, milestone-based mentoring path over several months.
- Pass on your experience in a pedagogical way and foster progressive autonomy.
- Support professional transitions and strengthen professional identity.
- Evaluate, close, and evolve your practice in supervision, without ever breaching confidentiality.
Prerequisites
What you need to start
Ten years or more of professional experience. A clear intention to practice mentoring, or already engaged in informal situations that need to be formalized. The Synodeo Tutor diploma is recommended but not required - the assessment will validate equivalence through experience. No academic prerequisites.
The program
A path built step by step.
01
Setting your stance and the framework
Before sharing an experience, you need to know where you stand. You explore the ethical framework of the helping professions, the distinctions from therapy, coaching, and management, the working alliance, and the art of formalizing a two-party or three-party mentoring relationship.
02
Welcoming the mentee and reading their context
A mentoring request is never quite what it says. You learn the exploratory interview, the strategic reading of an organization, the professional diagnosis of needs, and the co-construction of a personalized, milestone-based, adjustable mentoring plan.
03
Passing on experience and helping others grow
The heart of the craft: passing on knowledge without overwhelming. You train to share your experience in a pedagogical way, to design learning situations, to facilitate access to networks, and to foster progressive empowerment by letting go at the right moment.
04
Supporting the trajectory and transitions
Mentoring plays out in decisive moments. You support decision-making without deciding in the mentee's place, you strengthen professional identity, and you situate mentoring within concrete managerial and HR challenges - while holding a loyal, three-way stance.
05
Evaluating, closing, and evolving
A mentoring engagement is judged by what it leaves behind. You build progression indicators, conduct reviews, steer a closing process that consolidates what's been gained, commit your practice to supervision, and report back to sponsors without ever breaching confidentiality.
Zoom in on the content
What you work on, module by module.
One example of method and one case-study excerpt per module - taken directly from the program's courses.
01
Setting your stance and the framework
Ethical frameworkOngoing professional developmentAlliance & formalizing the relationship
Method in focus
The working alliance (Bordin): explicitly checking agreement on the bond, the goals, and the tasks - a strong alliance weighs more heavily on the success of the engagement than the method used.
Case in focus
An HR mentor discovers, five months into an engagement that was never formalized with a contract, that her mentee is about to confide his intention to leave for another company. She has to receive the confidence without betraying her dual institutional role, then draft a retroactive confidentiality clause that protects the relationship without saddling it with an unworkable commitment.
02
Welcoming the mentee and reading their context
The request and the exploratory interviewSkills diagnosticMentoring plan
Method in focus
Checking-back reformulation: reflecting back what you've understood of the mentee's situation, without ever drawing conclusions in their place, and always ending with an invitation to correct.
Case in focus
Over the course of two exploratory interviews, a mentor senses that the request his mentee has put forward - developing his leadership - masks a deeper question about his legitimacy to hold a supervisory role. Before the third session, he has to decide how to map out the organizational stakes without imposing his own reading, nor one gathered outside the sessions.
03
Passing on experience and helping others grow
Passing on experienceFeedback & developmentNetworkProfessional autonomy
Method in focus
The four-step teaching narrative: context, tension, reflective pause, resolution with takeaway - a structure that keeps the mentor's experience from closing in on itself.
Case in focus
A mentor realizes her mentee has stopped forming his own hypotheses: he arrives at each session with questions, receives precise answers, and makes operational progress without ever building his own decision-making method. She has to name this pattern of dependency without putting him on the defensive, then relearn to turn her own experience into a mirror rather than an oracle.
04
Supporting the trajectory and transitions
Professional transitionsProfessional identityManagerial developmentThree-party framework & HR
Method in focus
Identifying the transition phase (ending, neutral zone, new beginning) before adjusting your stance: offering an action plan to someone still in the ending phase amounts to building on sand.
Case in focus
A mentor spots, in a remark his mentee lets slip in passing, the sign that a professional decision made under pressure was never truly processed. Rather than immediately opening up future scenarios, he chooses to return to that remark, letting the mentee move through an ending he hadn't yet recognized as one.
05
Evaluating, closing, and evolving
Evaluating impactFinal reviewSupervisionReporting & capitalizing
Method in focus
The four questions of the final review: the underlying change, the evidence, the areas still open, the continuation - to distinguish an integrated transformation from mere content received.
Case in focus
A mentor discovers, in the closing questionnaire sent back by her mentee, a reservation about her practice that she hadn't anticipated. She has to receive it without becoming defensive or self-flagellating, acknowledge what was well-founded, and turn the imperfection into a concrete intention for her next engagements - without letting the criticism erase eleven months of real progress.
Condensed, anonymized excerpts from the program's case studies - for teaching purposes, not transcripts of real sessions.
How it works
100 % remote, at your own pace - never alone.
The program is followed fully online, at whatever pace your professional life allows, and remains accessible for twelve months from enrollment. At no point are you left to fend for yourself.
Personalized coaching
A Synodeo mentor, themselves a practitioner of the helping professions, checks in with you over video: your ongoing mentoring engagements, the supervision of your stance, and the review of your black book as you keep it. Two hours of video coaching are included in the program, alongside unlimited e-mail support.
The black book
You document your real mentoring relationships in it - formalizing the relationship, sharing experience, transitions, closing - then draw from it an in-depth reflective analysis that forms the foundation of your diploma.
Lived practice
The diploma doesn't reward recited knowledge: it recognizes mentoring actually practiced, and the clarity with which you're able to look back on it.
Assessment
Validated by your practice, not by an exam.
Continuous validation
Progress is checked along the way: self-check points built into the program, case studies annotated by your mentor, and periodic review of the black book you keep on your mentoring engagements.
Final validation
The program concludes with a defense over video before a Synodeo mentor: you present and defend the reflective analysis drawn from your black book, while preserving your mentees' anonymity and the confidentiality of the situations you've worked through.
Diploma & certification
A proven diploma, solid recognition.
At the end of the program, Synodeo awards you its professional diploma. It doesn't certify attendance: it validates the competencies actually demonstrated in your black book, tested in real engagements and developed with your mentor.
This diploma is part of a dual-recognition model. On one hand, a professional certification backed by an external professional body, which situates your competencies against industry standards. On the other, a professional diploma awarded by Synodeo, which puts the school's own responsibility behind the quality of your training and assessment.
Synodeo designs its own curricula and trains with full pedagogical autonomy; professional recognition, meanwhile, rests on a third party external to the field. The same rigor runs from the first case study to the final defense.
Frequently asked questions
What people often ask us.
What's the difference between a mentor and a coach?
A mentor passes on an experience they've actually lived: they share, open their network, shed light on decisions - without ever making them in the mentee's place. A coach, by contrast, refrains from offering their own answers: they create the conditions for the client to find their own. Two professions, two stances, that the program teaches you to distinguish and to hold.
Do you need to be an executive to become a mentor?
No. What matters is substantial professional experience - ten years or more - and a structured intention to put it at someone else's service. Managers, subject-matter experts, independent professionals: mentors' backgrounds are varied.
Is mentoring practiced within a company or independently?
Both. Internally - mentoring programs, support for high-potential employees, three-way relationships with HR - as well as in independent practice. The program covers both frameworks, two-party and three-party.
Do you need to have completed the Tutor program first?
It's recommended, not required. If you haven't taken it, the positioning assessment checks whether your mentoring experience serves as an equivalent.
Professional recognition
A programme recognised by the IACTM.
This programme is recognised by the International Association of Coaches, Therapists & Mentors (IACTM) under Synodeo's accredited-trainer status. Your diploma may carry the IACTM logo, and once you graduate you may apply in your own right for the corresponding IACTM accreditation: Mentor or Supervisor.
An accreditation qualifies a programme; it is not a State approval, and it is distinct from the certification of your competencies, which your Synodeo diploma attests. It situates the training against the shared standards of the profession.
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