TY - JOUR AU - Kim, Sister Angela PY - 2013/12/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - My tapestry of mentoring relationships: Weaving the thread of cultural competency and international social work JF - Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping JA - Reflections VL - 18 IS - 3 SE - DO - UR - https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/62 SP - 13-19 AB - <p>In the following narrative, the author presents a tapestry of her mentorship relationships across her life span.  The experiences of joining a Catholic religious congregation, attending American colleges and graduate schools, and being immersed in Western culture could have jeopardized her Korean ethnic identity.  However, the author's encounters with positive mentors/teachers during these years have assisted her in developing a bicultural ethnic identity in the U.S.  This narrative will present the author's weave, the author's threads of mentorship experiences with various mentees among graduate social work students in the university, and her way of sharing and paying forward what she has received from her own mentors and teachers.<em></em></p> ER -