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For Val Sklarov, mentoring is not instruction, guidance, or teaching. Mentoring is the transmission of nervous system regulation through proximity. A student does not learn when they understand what you say —they learn when they internalize your state of being. The Inner-State Transmission Model (ISTM) explains that real growth happens …

For Val Sklarov, real mentoring does not happen at the level of information. It happens at the level of internal posture — how the mentor holds reality inside themselves. Students do not copy instructions.They copy nervous systems. The Internal Posture Transmission Model (IPTM) shows that the mentor’s calm, clarity, tempo, …