MENTOR: Strategies To Inspire Young People
MENTOR: Strategies To Inspire Young People provides over 1000 proven strategies and tips to encourage anyone working alongside young people to positively connect with them, and guide them to reach their unique potential—to achieve greatness—in a meaningful, developmental relationship. This user-friendly book promotes the ‘spirit of mentoring’ among family, friends, schools, and communities. It awakens…
WRITTEN BY
Robin Cox
About This Book
MENTOR: Strategies To Inspire Young People provides over 1000 proven strategies and tips to encourage anyone working alongside young people to positively connect with them, and guide them to reach their unique potential—to achieve greatness—in a meaningful, developmental relationship. This user-friendly book promotes the ‘spirit of mentoring’ among family, friends, schools, and communities. It awakens that spirit within the lives of all who guide and inspire young people, and appreciate the value and importance of face-to-face relationships. Robin Cox shares true stories of his and other mentors’ interactions with young people from a variety of cultures and ethnicities to give credibility to the strategies and tips mentioned in the book. The challenges facing our young people in a post-pandemic world are discussed, and practical solutions offered. Anyone working with young people will feel equipped, enabled, and further empowered to take on a formal or informal mentoring role, and will have an inspirational resource to consult in the years ahead.
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Writer: Robin Cox
About The Writer
Robin Cox
ROBIN COX was a school principal of two co-educational schools in southern Africa, sports coach to national under-nineteen level, youth symposium organizer, developer of youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia, Churchill Fellow and author of books linked to youth mentoring, peer mentoring and the development of young people to become the best they can be using their God-given talents. He has trained over 1,000 volunteer adult mentors, run education and spirit of mentoring workshops in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Jamaica and personally mentored over 1,000 adolescents and many adults. Still an idealist, a cancer survivor of 50+ years, married with two adult children, Robin lives in Ruakaka, New Zealand and shares a passion with anyone wanting to make a positive difference in the global community. Free: 260 podcasts – Mentoring Minutes daily podcasts (each podcast between 1.5 and 3 minutes), containing hundreds of tips for anyone working with young people, can be accessed here.
Website: www.mentoringmatters.nz
Photo: Robin Cox
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