52 Mentor Musings: To Encourage Anyone Motivating Youth - Paperback

by Robin Cox (Author)

52 Mentor Musings offers short, user-friendly weekly messages (musings) of encouragement for anyone guiding a young person to reach their potential. Robin Cox equips readers with knowledge, skills, and strategies for the mentoring journey. Topics include understanding the world of youth; self-image; the impact of technology and social media on youth; resiliency; goal-setting; effective communication; values; how to resolve conflicts using a positive mindset; the role of the family and other networks in the lives of youth. Robin Cox weaves true stories into the messages to give credibility to the content. Anyone working with young people will have the confidence to take the spirit of mentoring concepts, strategies, and ideas to develop positive and meaningful relationships with them.

Author Biography

Robin Cox was a principal of two co-educational schools in southern Africa, youth national sports coach, and developer of youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia. He has written books for teacher-mentors, and on peer and youth mentoring. He has trained over a thousand volunteer adult mentors; run education and spirit of mentoring workshops in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Jamaica; and personally mentored over a thousand adolescents and many adults. A cancer survivor, Robin is married, has two adult children and two delightful grandchildren, and lives in New Zealand.