Last month saw the University of New Mexico (UNM) Mentoring Institute’s seventh annual mentoring conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The theme of the conference on 21-24 October was: Developmental networks: mentoring and coaching at work, focusing on how developmental networks are used in practice in educational settings and in the workplace. In addition to Bob Garvey (see Profile, pages 24-27), speakers included Maggie Werner-Washburne, from UNM. She stressed the importance of fostering emotional intelligence (EI) and psychosocial support in mentoring for the development...