Healthy Minds is underpinned by a set of psychological skills that build mental resilience, emotional wellbeing and equip young people with essential tools for living.
There has never been a more important time to support young people to build mental resilience and emotional wellbeing so they thrive in education and beyond. Make a change to reduce these statistics:
There has never been a more important time to support young people to build mental resilience and emotional wellbeing so they thrive in education and beyond. Without these fundamental core skills, the following statistics are liekly tolikely rise:
Healthy Minds is designed based on adolescent and neurological development and takes a spiral approach so that the learning builds and strengthens over time.
Students tell us Healthy Minds lessons help them to:
Identify damaging unhelpful and negative thoughts
Set rules in relationships and understand what’s not ok
Stick up for themselves, take responsibility for their feelings and actions
Recognise the signs and be able to support friends who are ‘going under’
Have a set of techniques that help in the moment
Healthy Minds has a positive impact on general health, physical health, externalising behaviours and life satisfaction - which leave a long arm into adult outcomes.
Healthy Minds improves health-related outcomes without adversely affecting academic achievement, despite diverting time away from traditional academic subjects.
Evidence of lower levels of absence and fewer fixed-term exclusions, in particular amongst students receiving free school meals.
Year 7
Lesson 1 Resilience & Harnessing Positive Emotions
Lesson 2 Connecting the Brain, Emotions & Thoughts
Lesson 3 Introducing Gremlin Beliefs
Lesson 4 Optimism & Evidence
Lesson 5 WoBbLe
Lesson 6 Resilience Planning
Year 7
An introduction to mindfulness for students.
Lesson 1 Puppy training
Lesson 2 Working with Worry
Lesson 3 Beditation
Lesson 4 Sleep
Year 7
Lesson 1 Being part of a group & my adult self
Lesson 2 Positive & negative role models
Lesson 3 Bucket list and timelines
Lesson 4 Timelines continued
Lesson 5 Actions
Lesson 6 Possible Selves Poster Boards
Lesson 7 Pathways to the future
Lesson 8 Solving everyday problems
Lesson 9 Solving everyday problems & looking forward
Year 8
Lesson 1 Revisit the Skills of Resilience
Lesson 2 Optimistic Thinking
Lesson 3 WoBbLe
Lesson 4 Assertive Communication
Lesson 5 Moving On
Lesson 6 Empathy & Resilience Planning
Year 8
Lesson 1 Being part of a group & my adult self
Lesson 2 Positive & negative role models
Lesson 3 Bucket list and timelines
Lesson 4 Timelines continued
Lesson 5 Actions
Lesson 6 Possible Selves Poster Boards
Lesson 7 Pathways to the future
Lesson 8 Solving everyday problems
Lesson 9 Solving everyday problems & looking forward
Year 8
Lesson 1 Introduction to Media Literacy and the Language of Persuasion
Lesson 2 Media and gender constructions
Lesson 3 Media and Body Image
Lesson 4 Media, Health, and food marketing
Lesson 5 Media, health, and the marketing addiction
Lesson 6 Media and decision making
Lesson 7 Creating counter advertisements
Lesson 8 Presenting counter advertisements
Year 9
Lesson 1 Resilient Relationships
Lesson 2 Healthy Boundaries
Lesson 3 Relationship characteristics and parental responsibility
Lesson 4 Big Sticky Beliefs and Relationships
Lesson 5 Identifying Big Sticky Beliefs
Lesson 6 BSBs and human connections
Lesson 7 BSBs and Planning for the Future
Year 9
Lesson 1 Defining mental health
Lesson 2 The science of mental illness
Lesson 3 Understanding mental illness
Lesson 4 Mental Illness: triggers, protective factors & promoting well-being
Lesson 5 Mental illness: spotting and supporting
Lesson 6 Healthy coping strategies
Lesson 7 Reducing mental health stigma
Year 10
Lesson 1 Ambiguity, Complexity & Independent Thought
Lesson 2 Assessing risk & opportunity
Lesson 3 Weighing up pros and cons
Lesson 4 Decision Making in Romantic Relationships
Lesson 5 Reviewing how we make decisions
Year 11
Lesson 1 Barriers to Success
Lesson 2 Learning Priorities and Strategies
Lesson 3 Learning Mindsets
Lesson 4 Dealing with Anxiety
Lesson 5 Action Planning
Lesson 6 Emotions, Energy and Performance
Lesson 7 Strengths
As part of your Healthy Minds membership, you will have access to the BounceTogether platform. An amazing digital platform to help you capture vital data, evidence the impact, and measure wellbeing across your staff, students and parents.
Find out how BounceTogether can help you measure the impact of Healthy Minds by downloading the resource below
“Over the past 5-years, Healthy Minds has really helped my year group to understand each others’ feelings a lot better. It has helped us to look at situations in-depth rather than just what they seem on the surface.”
“I have been resilient by coping because last year my mum died. Healthy Minds has helped me because it has shown me how to act and overcome obstacles.”
Healthy Minds Students
The research project with 34 schools over 5 years that led to the design of Healthy Minds. Funded by the Education Endowment Foundation.
Healthy Minds was a key element of the work in schools in Oldham Opportunity Area work.
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Yes! It’s the only evidence based suite of its kind!
The Education Endowment Foundation research found a positive impact on attendance, fixed term exclusions and across wellbeing outcomes.
The Department for Education and HM Treasury include Healthy Minds in guidance when considering the economic arguments for building wellbeing. You can trust that this is an investment worth making.
Bounce Forward Healthy Minds was also showcased at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Wellbeing in December 2021.
Your subscription gives the school full access to Healthy Minds for 1-year. At the annual renew stage your subscription is offered at a discounted rate.
The high quality foundation training is delivered to you in pre-recorded videos via your members area.
Included in your subscription is access to 1-day online training for .breathe lessons - for 1 member of staff. If you wish to add more .breathe training places, speak to a member of the team.
Absolutely. Speak to a member of the team who will take you through the process.
Yes, you still take the same journey and start with the foundational skills. All materials are adaptable and Bounce Forward will support you.
Healthy Minds is designed for secondary aged pupils.
Teach Mental Resilience is designed for primary aged children.
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