UIF understands that it is the formation and pursuit of a variety of individual Dreams that contribute to the search and fulfillment of your self-determined success and in the pursuit of your individual happiness. These Dreams exist in various areas of life, including personal relationships, entrepreneurial endeavors (business or otherwise), health and fitness, family, personal circumstances, financial, career and education.  UIF created UIF Virtual Mentor™ and developed Open-System Mentoring™ to assist every individual in the formation and focusing of their Dreams for every life transition in the search of their self-determined success and in the pursuit of their individual happiness.

UIF understands that successful mentoring occurs when a Protégé develops and passionately pursues his or her Dreams. Mentoring is activated by the Protégé who seeks and obtains the mentoring help they need from whatever sources are available. Very simply, mentoring works because successful Protégés are able to convince potential Mentors that they and their Dream are worthy of the Mentor’s efforts. 

In order for successful mentoring to exist, at least three components need to be present: a Protégé with a worthy Dream; a Protégé with the passion to fulfill it, and the availability of sufficient interested and committed mentoring resources for the Protégé’s use.  This would suggest that the formation and refinement of the Protégé’s Dream is essential to both successful mentoring and successful individual life transitions.  Curiously consistent with Open-System Mentoring™, this construct suggests that how mentoring actually works is not dependent upon whether an individual Mentor is either available or present.  What is most important is that which inspires a Protégé to form, focus and passionately pursue personal dreams.

If what we understand about mentoring and life transitions is true, then an individual’s Dream formation, Dream management and Dream focusing are critical.  Also, the passionate pursuit of an individual’s Dreams is essential not only to the individual’s mentoring relationships, but also to their successful life transitions, self-determined success and the pursuit of their individual happiness.