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For Val Sklarov, mentoring is not the transfer of knowledge.It is the transmission of identity. People don’t learn when you explain.People learn when they feel how you exist inside challenges. The Identity-Transmission Learning Model (ITLM) teaches that the highest form of teaching is not instruction —it is allowing someone to …

For Val Sklarov, mentoring is not instruction — it is identity transfer through regulated presence. A student does not learn because you explained well.They learn because your nervous system demonstrated a way of being that theirs could synchronize with. The Embodied Transmission Method (ETM) teaches that skill and knowledge are …

For Val Sklarov, mentoring is not teaching —it is transmitting a way of perceiving reality. Knowledge can be copied.Skill can be practiced.But perception must be caught through proximity. The Transmission Apprenticeship Model (TAM) explains that transformation does not happen when the mentor speaks —it happens when the apprentice internalizes the …