Chapter 1: Introduction: The Need for Mentoring for Wellbeing in Professional Settings

The purpose of this edited volume is to explore how mentoring can promote mental health, build resilience, develop capacity to maintain, sustain, and promote emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing for all in various organizational settings. This introductory chapter describes the connection between mentoring and wellbeing across various disciplinary and professional settings and provides a brief overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the notion of wellbeing as the key concept for our inquiry into mentoring practices. Then, we offer short summaries of the chapters in this book and provide a guide to readers regarding what each of the chapters in this edited book may bring to our collective understandings of the role of mentoring for wellbeing in organizational settings.