Thanks for being interested in working with me on a one-on-one basis around your work as a sex-positive professional.
What is Mentoring, anyway?
Mentoring is a lot like the relationship coaching work I do with individuals and couples interested in improving their relationships and their sex lives with one large distinction: mentoring is aimed at people who work with people.
Because sex educators have personal lives, too, my professional mentoring usually ends up being a mix of relationship coaching, peer support, as well as support and advice on business, branding and PR.
Basic Session Info
How? And How Long?
Sessions can take place either over the phone, on video chat software such as Skype, or in person when convenient. Sessions typically last from 60 to 90-minutes.
Payment:
Cost for all mentoring sessions, like my relationship coaching, is on a sliding scale.
Why? Two reasons…
1. As someone who works with people, helping them create sex lives and relationship lives of their dreams, you know all too well that it’s impossible to put a price tag our work. I find putting a hard figure on what I offer difficult as well. A sliding scale gives me an equitable target for what I need in exchange for my time and focus.
2. And though business advice is a little easier to “measure,” since we can calculate results in terms of dollars and cents, many of us working in the sex-positive and pleasure-positive realms aren’t actually swimming in cash-o-la. People who can afford to pay more allow me to work with those who can’t.
Your support in this is appreciated by all and it’s all on an honor system. Thanks in advance!
Session Fees range from $150-$450 per session. All I ask is that you pay what you can afford and pay at time of booking via PayPal to secure your slot. Payments can be made to workshops@reidmihalko.com.
Booking Your Slot:
Unless otherwise arranged, your session slot(s) is not secured until paid for.
24-hr Cancelation Policy: I realize that schedules sometimes change last minute and I trust that you realize that our time together is valuable. With this in mind, please respect my 24-hr cancellation policy.
Please alert me, asap, of your cancellation via phone at 917.207.4554. Leave a voice mail if I cant pick up and I will get back to you as soon as I can to reschedule your session.
In the event of less-than-24-hour notice, you will be charged for your session. However, if I can move another client into your slot (or you can persuade a friend, partner or colleague to sign up to fill the opening - hint, hint), then it’s all good and you will not be charged. Your support in this helps both of us since I often cannot move people into others’ slots. But, it’s worth a try, right?
Booking Multiple Sessions with Reid
Every mentoring relationship begins with an initial session, but if our first session goes well for the both of us, I want you to already be thinking of booking several sessions. I’ll explain below but wanted to mention it here first that I recommend booking Sessions by the Month.
Monthly Sessions Packages
Together, through 60 to 90-minute sessions of frank and practical one-on-one conversations, you and I will delve into what it is you’d like to transform. By getting clear on what youd like to create, where you are feeling blocked, where your business or practice is at currently, and what your “not-at-work” relationship reality is, you and I will figure out how best I can serve and support you.
Monthly Session Package Schedules:
Unless discussed and planned out otherwise, here’s how Montly Packages work… Each monthly cycle consists of three weeks on, one week off, with 60 to 90-minute sessions on the “on” weeks, homework and self-exploration assignments, unlimited email correspondence, and quick phone check-ins. We can either meet in person or work over the phone/Sykpe as works for you and us.
Please remember that I travel a lot and won’t be able to meet with you face to face always. Of course, if you want to fly me in for our sessions, I’m probably not going to say no, but we should discuss the best ways to leverage such an arrangement. Just ask.
Monthly Session Package Costs:
Monthly packages are also on a sliding-scale system and cost $400-$1250/month. If you would like to secure 3-months in advance, please figure out what you can pay per month and deduct 10% as an incentive.
With every payment in full for each 3-month commitment, Reid would like to gift you with a FREE 60-Minute coachign or mentoring SESSION for the friend, partner, or colleague of your choice as a way of saying thank you for believing in our work together.
Custom Packages
While Monthly Sessions and their conversational, 60 to 90-minute sessions and homework-based approach to mentoring covers most people’s needs, occasionally the need for a custom package comes up. I’m always willing to work with individuals and to find something that works for everyone, just ask.
Recommendations
Occasionally, I may recommend that you see someone for work in areas, or when a “change of face” might unblock you in a certain area. While not mandatory, I ask that you seriously consider my recommendation. And, FYI, I’ve been known to take clients on field trips too. (I’m crazy like that!)
How Long Should I Work With Reid?
Most of my clients, I’ve found, experience peaking results at, or around, their three month mark in working with me, and most are usually ready to “leave the nest” and cease working together on a monthly basis by the three or six month mark. After that, some people book a session here and there for “tune ups” and to just check in, but they’ve succeeded in grasping what they needed and it’s time to take the training wheels off and send ‘em down the block on their own.
Thus, based on my experience, I highly recommend to all of my new clients that they seriously think of committing to three months of mentoring.
Why three months?
First, you save a little money by booking a 3-moth package. Secondly, working with me for just a month or by booking sporadic sessions here ends up really working against you. Three session (just one month) usually isn’t enough time to go very deep and anchor any new behaviors and sustainable changes. Sporadic sessions can leave too much time in between session for tools and techniques to really “take.”
Booking a 3-month package ensures that you have a set time slot (for a set period of time that won’t go to someone else) which gives us a routine and a structure that’s long enough to go deep and get some seriou work accomplished. When it comes to your love life, that makes a difference!
Reid’s Type of Mentoring
The type of mentoring I do, like my relationship coaching is much more “tweaking” than “overhauling” people’s lives or businesses. Rarely do I work with clients for more than six months at a time. Why? Besides the fact that most people are ready to practice what they’ve learned after 3 or 6 months and don’t “need” me anymore, if someone needs more than six months to get their relationship life up and soaring or is looking for a degree in business, then the type of mentoring they need is something vastly different than what I specialize in. I’d suggest getting your MBA or hiring a PR firm. 
Other Types of Mentoring Basic Info
Besides the usual one-on-one sessions, I offer other types of mentoring sessions, too…
Hands-On Body Work
As people who work with people whether it be as an educator, a healer, or an activist, too many of us forget to take a day off and receive! The result is that we become depleted and burn out.
Hands-On Body Work sessions cover a wide range of areas and topics and are customized on a client-by-client basis. They can last anywhere between 60-minutes and two and a half hours.
Couples Mentoring for Sex-Positive Professionals
It can be hard enough just being a pleasure-positive professional, right? Now imagine dating and falling in love with one!… As a successful sex educator with a long history of success in my personal relationships, if you’re experiencing difficulty in your relationship life, let’s see if I can’t help. Couples Mentoring, like One-On-One Mentoring Sessions and Relationship Coaching Sessions, usually last between 60 and 90-minutes. Please do not confuse the mentoring, coaching and education I offer with therapy or counseling. It’s not. I am not a therapist nor am I a counselor.
R&D and Play Sessions
I used to be a martial arts instructor and there came a time when, as a teacher, what I realized I needed to further my technique and skill levels was to “mess it up” with other black belts, to spar, to exchange techniques and play around. Being a sex educator is, in many ways, like being a black belt and sometimes what we need most is someone who’s just as skilled as we are to practice on, explore and frolic with, and “open up on.” I like to call this “R&D (Research and Development) and Play.”
R&D and Play are a lot like a musician jam session or a private, free flowing workshop where it’s just you and I working on whatever it is you want to work on. R&D/Play Sessions may last between 90-minutes and two hours depending on where the energy takes us or what we’re trying to explore/work on.
Community Privates
Most of my workshop and teleclass offerings are available for private booking for you, your loved ones, your groups and communities. Just ask and let me do a private workshop for you and yours!
Book a Mentoring Session by emailing me at reid (at) reidaboutsex (dot) com or phoning me at 917.207.4554
