Table 1.

Themes/Categories Identified in Interviews and Diaries

Semi-structured Interviews

Mentoring Diaries

1. Stakeholders ▪ Interactions between mentee, mentor, peer-mentor, and the host organization 2. Stages of Mentoring ▪ Includes the pre-mentoring, initial research meetings, data gathering, review of initial findings, manuscript preparations and reflections stages, 3. Mentoring Relationships ▪ Characterizing mentoring relationships and its effects upon the mentee’s research, personal, academic and career considerations 4. The Ring Theory of Personhood ▪ Delineating shifts in the mentee’s Innate, Individual, Relational and Societal Rings brought on by dissonance, dyssynchrony, disharmony and resonance

1. Stakeholders ▪ Interactions between mentee, mentor, peer-mentor, and the host organization 2. Mentoring Relationships ▪ Characterizing mentoring relationships and its effects upon the mentee’s research, personal, academic and career considerations