Primary School Programs

Kids are not just the future, but also the present. They hold within themselves the potential to shape and create a better tomorrow, and it is our responsibility to nurture and empower them to achieve their full potential.

Primary School SEL Programs

Healthier Hearts & Lighter Minds

Healthier Hearts and Lighter Minds aims to build social and emotional literacy in primary schools for students, teachers and families.

Healthier Hearts & Lighter Minds - a proactive approach to learning about the beauty of our minds and the understanding of the strength we are to ourselves when we tap into what exists within.

Working with children as young as 4 upwards in Kindergartens, Primary Schools and School holiday programs to facilitate fun, energetic and relatable content in ways that can help shift the narrative about talking about emotions and feelings.

About the program

The social impact of this initiative is seeing young champions of tomorrow, our future be able to grow up in a world and be better equipped to deal with, combat and navigate through life's inevitable situations and challenges. Creating resilient, beautiful communities where people can show up and be who they truly are, believe in themselves and love themselves more. 

Our kids are fantastic imitators-  It’s our role as parents, guardians, supporters and brothers and sisters’ keepers to model the right behaviours. These champions have beautiful and meaningful lives ahead. Like our program does we must help and support them in becoming and being more of themselves.

All Mindfull Aus primary facilitators of the program are trained in America at Stanford University or California State in world class training of 300 hours of quantum learning and how to engage the young mind. This training enables facilitators to provide the most engaging content and environments where all 3 learning styles are met within the classroom - Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Appealing to all children and not having any young champion feeling left behind.

Children's emotions are like the weather,

constantly changing and sometimes unpredictable.

As adults, it's our role to provide them with

a safe and supportive environment

where they can learn to recognize and

express their feelings in a healthy way.

Key Outcomes - Phase One & Two

ONE

Identify- The 6 core emotions in the human face. Being able to recognise our emotions and the importance of each of them to our learning. The importance of validating each individual feeling and thought  rather than suppressing and ignoring. Giving young champions the articulation for their emotion, but also an evidence based colour to make it easier to explore and express.

TWO

Control - Techniques and Strategies to understand how to positively control our environments using Gratitude, Kindness, Breathwork, Exercise, Mindfulness and many more.

THREE

Express - Being confident in talking about our thoughts, feelings and emotions with trusted adults, teachers, parents & friends. Understanding the importance our words and actions with every waking minute and the support that exists to us in our communities, removing stigma from speaking up and seeking appropriate help and services, but also finding other forms of expression. e.g reflection, journaling, dance, movement etc

FOUR

Learning the three main functions of the brain. Our superhero, our Librarian and our Judge.When students understand how the mind works, it helps to empower them to slow down, practicing mindfulness and stillness to navigate their way through their thoughts, feelings and emotion.

ADDITIONAL EXTRAS

Outside of the in-person facilitation of the program through Phase 1 & Phase 2 in the first 12 months, is Victorian Aligned Curriculum that helps educators to deliver classroom content. We have come up with over 40+ lesson plans with games and interactive learning to enhance our program delivery. All curriculum comes with a teachers manual, student handbook and a Term by Term Success Criteria.

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Key Outcomes - Phase Three

ONE

Choices- Explore our choices. Using the terms “Bummer Bottom” and “Tip Top” we look at the two ways we can show up in any situation. Creating and growing trust, respect and freedom.

TWO

Growth Mindset- Looking at how we bounce back and honour the process of failure. Knowing that failure is never the finish line and all of our mistakes lead to success.

THREE

Behaviours - Removing the sometimes present behaviours to blame, justify, lie or quit, making room for behaviours that focus purely on the messages we want to send the world and those around us about who we truly are.

ADDITIONAL EXTRAS

Outside of the in-person facilitation of the program through Phase 3 in the second 12 months collaborating, is Victorian Aligned Curriculum that helps educators to deliver classroom content. We have come up with over 40+ lesson plans with games and interactive learning to enhance our program delivery. All curriculum comes with a teachers manual, student handbook and a Term by Term Success Criteria.

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Evaluation & Effectiveness

Key Outcomes

Mindfull Aus commissioned the Social Outcomes Lab (SOULAB or SouLab) to undertake an independent impact evaluation of the Healthier Hearts and Lighter Minds (HHLM) program. The evaluation includes an outcome, economic and, process evaluation as well as a scalability assessment.

What people have said…

  • “From the sessions ran with the staff, to the session with parents and then the kids we have created a really solid foundation to move forward in the area of mental health and recognising children that may be going through some really tough times, even giving us some strategis to be able to deal with this to the best of our ability

    — Primary School Teacher

  • “We’ve seen an immediate change in our two young kids demeanours and a much more positive outlook from both our son and daughter after the exercises and discussions they had with the Mindfull Aus team recently. My son in particular is now openly telling me how he feels and I’m sure my wife would agree that the whole experience the kids had at their school during a pilot program was exceptional! We also got a lot out of it as parents also. Great work Matt and the Mindfull Aus team. ”

    — Parent

  • “Mindfull Aus provide such a unique way of presenting this information. The kids are automatically so engaged. They make it so relatable for something that is such a scary thing for kids to talk about, he puts them immediately at ease, we feel so blessed to be part of this journey

    — Teacher

  • “I learned that healthy eating and mindfulness is very important and that making one person happy can positively impact a lot of people in life. "

    — Student

Book a primary school program

To request information about our Evidence Based & Informed Social Emotional Learning program for Schools, please contact bookings and admin team today - bookings@mindfullaus.com.au

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