There's a lot of assumption about mentoring here and they're not great. Specifically: - When mentoring you're not supposed to remove autonomy. In this case, th

There's a lot of assumption about mentoring here and they're not great. Specifically: - When mentoring you're not supposed to remove autonomy. In this case, the first contact can be just: Hi, this seems a new complex area to you. WOULD YOU LIKE me to tell you about how we make these changes safer or answer YOUR QUESTIONS? - Mentoring is not managing or micro managing. You don't need to do any hand holding. Instead it can be knowledge transfer about a concept. "I think you're going to have problems because... You can read up on XYZ or look at (example from the past) to learn more." - "not letting them experience the viscera of failure or fear" What's the point? They're adults. We don't teach people to watch out when crossing the road by hitting them with a car. I mean, all those points apply to seniors too. The only difference is that you're proactivly reaching out to say "knowledge transfer is possible and probably a good idea right now - would you like to do that?"