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 othe...

MENTOR: Strategies to Inspire Young People provides over one thousand 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 appre...

Positive face-to-face relationships are key to the health and well-being of our youth in a post-pandemic world. CHOICES: Encouraging Youth to Achieve Greatness inspires and guides parents, teachers, coaches, mentors, and youth workers--significant adults--to use the proven CHOICES framework to motivate youth to achieve greatness or reach their potential no matter what their circumstances might be. Hundreds of tips and strategies to connect with and inspire youth are shared in this user-fri...

The Barnabas Prayer: Becoming an Encourager in Your Community inspires and guides Christians to follow the sacrificial, selfless example of one of the greatest apostles of the early church, Barnabas. The book shares life lessons from the establishment of the early church during Barnabas's ministry, and examines some of the key qualities of a servant leader. Dozens of practical tips and strategies are included to encourage Christians to become positive and encouraging influencers in their c...

Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Guiding Youth aims to encourage and equip people working with youth with the knowledge, strategies, ideas, and recent youth research to build meaningful and developmental relationships with these young people. There are five daily messages for fifty-two weeks of the year which cover topics like: understanding the world of youth, self-image, the impact of technology on youth, resiliency, goal setting, effective communication, values, ho...

7 Key Qualities of Effective Teachers: Encouragement for Christian Educators aims to encourage and inspire Christian teachers in their critically important role as transformative educators who motivate and encourage others to become the best people God created them to be. The book explores seven key qualities of an effective teacher: relationships, Christlikeness, empowerment, empathy, humility, affirmation, and teamwork. Each chapter contains a prayerful reflection, an encouraging and ins...

16-year old LISA COURT confronts her demons: negative peer pressure, antisocial behaviour, drifting with the crowd at the expense of reaching her potential. Inspired by her teacher, CJ KRISTEN, Lisa launches the M.A.D. (Make A Difference) project which transforms a school, a community and, eventually, due to the power of the internet, goes global. During this time she also discovers love eternal.

Channel your passion for mentoring into action with The Spirit of Mentoring series. Each book is packed with practical suggestions and fun, easy-to-prepare activities for teachers and others who are keen to: motivate youth to believe in themselves and reach their potential; sow the seeds of mentoring amongst them; and/or set up a peer support/mentor programme. A 10 to 20 minute activity from Nurturing the Spirit of Mentoring will remind young people that, in your eyes, their lives...

Channel your passion for mentoring into action with The Spirit of Mentoring series. Each book is packed with practical suggestions and fun, easy-to-prepare activities for teachers and others who are keen to: motivate youth to believe in themselves and reach their potential; sow the seeds of mentoring amongst them; and/or set up a peer support/mentor programme. Encouraging the Spirit of Mentoring complements the ideas presented in The Mentoring Spirit of the Teacher

Channel your passion for mentoring into action with The Spirit of Mentoring series. Each book is packed with practical suggestions and fun, easy-to-prepare activities for teachers and others who are keen to: motivate youth to believe in themselves and reach their potential; sow the seeds of mentoring amongst them; and/or set up a peer support/mentor programme.The Mentoring Spirit of the Teacher includes:practical tips on how you can encourage youth to reach t...

On February 19, 2007, SSG Shilo Harris was patrolling an infamous southern Iraqi roadway when his Humvee was struck by an IED. Moments later, three members of his crew were dead and Shilo had sustained severe burns over 35 percent of his body, lost his ears and the skin off his face, and lost much of the use of his badly mangled fingers. This fiery moment was just the beginning of an arduous road laced with pain, emotional anguish, and much soul-searching. For forty-eight days Shilo lay tr...

The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout...