by Robin Cox | Sep 22, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Education, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, School, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
“Kids don’t need independence, they need interdependence. People are homeless because they have no functioning human relationships in their lives. Who in this society can live independently? All human beings want to belong somewhere.” – Pat O’Brien, Founder of...
by Robin Cox | Sep 2, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaches, coaching leaders, Education, Family, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
What is it that tugs at your heart strings and wants you to interact with others? How do you express selfless love and care to those with whom you interact? These are questions I have often asked myself as I collated my research on the adolescent brain, and interacted...
by Robin Cox | Aug 8, 2024 | Building strengths, coaching leaders, Education, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
“Robin is dangerously ill,” my father wrote in his journal. At the age of nine, I was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw. I wasn’t told at the time that I had cancer, nor was I told that I only had a five percent chance of survival. My parents initially thought I had...
by Robin Cox | Aug 8, 2024 | business people, coaching leaders, Education, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, teachers
Actually, there was more than one life lesson I took from the time I spent with Archbishop Desmond Tutu soon after he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. At the time I was teaching history at a boys’ boarding school in the scenic midlands of Kwazulu-Natal...
by Robin Cox | Jun 20, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaching leadership, Education, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
Encourage others to reach their potential and achieve greatness How important are your face-to-face relationships to you? In recent times I had the privilege of sharing mentoring thoughts with a relatively new mentoring program serving the area in which I used to...
by Robin Cox | Apr 18, 2024 | Christian teachers, Coaches, Coaching leadership, Education, Family, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Relationships, Resiliency, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
Do you have a message of hope to share with the wider community? How do you respond when you watch the television news and you see helpless babies and young children injured by war, explosions, violence, displacement or through some other event beyond their control? I...
