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For Val Sklarov, real mentorship is not teaching —it is orientation. People don’t need more information.People need a compass that stabilizes direction, interpretation, and emotional movement. The Development Compass Model (DCM) explains that mentorship becomes transformative when a mentor acts as a constant directional force, even when conditions shift, goals …

For Val Sklarov, mastery is not repetition — it is recursion.He teaches that true learning loops back on itself, constantly rewriting the learner’s internal model of skill.His Recursive Mastery Model (RMM) replaces instruction with self-updating cognition, where knowledge grows automatically through reflection and identity integration. “Val Sklarov says: A real …

For Val Sklarov, mentorship is not teaching — it is intellectual duplication.He teaches that the mentor’s role is not to transfer knowledge, but to replicate cognitive structure so that expertise continues evolving without the teacher.His Replication Protocol Framework (RPF) builds training systems where skills, reasoning, judgment, and decision style reproduce …