Robin Cox

These four books are all part of a series called "The Spirit of Mentoring." Nurturing the Spirit of Mentoring - 50 Fun Activities for Young People includes 10 to 20 minute easy to use, fun activities, requiring little extra preparation. It is ideal for use in form/class periods, life skills programs, and youth groups. The author allows the purchaser to photocopy pages from the book.
Encouraging the Spirit of Mentoring - 50 Fun Activities for the Ongoing Training of Teacher-Mentors, Volunteer show more Mentors and Youth Workers also includes 10 to 20 minute easy to use, fun activities, requiring little extra preparation. Ideal for use for anyone wanting to promote the spirit of mentoring amongst volunteer adult mentors, teachers, coaches, youth and social workers. The purchaser is allowed to photocopy pages from the book for distribution to activity participants.

The third book in the series is The Mentoring Spirit of the Teacher - Inspiration, Support and Guidance for Aspiring and Practising Teacher-Mentors. This book is a user-friendly resource aimed at promoting the spirit of mentoring amongst all who work with young people (teachers,coaches, youth workers). Purchasing one copy of the book for a school or organisation, allows the purchaser to photocopy pages from the book.

The author also provides a one-day seminar to help leaders put the ideas into practice as trainers.

The author has 30 years experience as an educator, sports coach and School Principal. Since 1999 he has been working in the field of youth mentoring, training over 600 volunteer adult youth mentors, as well as Peer Mentors in school-based Peer Mentor programmes. His website shares some of his resources in youth mentoring and it is continually being updated. His belief is that through nurturing and encouraging the spirit of mentoring amongst all who work with young people, the levels of absenteeism, bullying, substance abuse, inappropriate sexual behaviour and youth suicide amongst many of our young people will be reduced. A major way of achieving this is to affirm, encourage and inspire teachers to develop the spirit of mentoring in their interactions with young people, teachers being one of the most important influences (after parents/caregivers) in the lives of young people. show less