This paper tries to reveal and describe the mentoring model in pesantren, in shaping the santris’ positive behavior with the sufistic counseling approach. The research covers the concepts and methods of mentoring to the santris as the objects with diverse backgrounds, ages and problems. It uses the qualitative descriptive approach to search for the pricture of a counseling model based on the sufistic counseling. Through the phenomenological analysis, the result shows that the mentoring model is based on the principle of optimizing the potential knowledge and religious nature inherited in each individual santri so that it will form self-awareness to change their behavior from the negative to the positive one. The sufistic counseling which refers to mental balance focuses on efforts to influence the heart (qalb) through the dhikr activities, controlling desires (nafs) by preoccupying learning activities and reading the Quran, and improving their ability of rational and critical thinking through studies on classic Islamic books.