We all have mental health
We can all learn ways to look after it
Starting early is key
We provide innovative and engaging wellbeing strategies for educators, children and families.
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Grow Your Mind builds resilience and supports respectful relationships and consent education. Grow Your Mind is available as a quality-assured program in the NSW Department of Education’s Student Wellbeing external programs catalogue.
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Build a positive wellbeing culture
We use neuroscience and storytelling to create innovative and engaging mental health strategies to enhance the social and emotional wellbeing of children, educators and families.
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Grow Your Mind School Program
Evidence-based, time-flexible, curriculum-aligned wellbeing program for use by individual teachers or whole schools.
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PD Courses & Workshops
A range of accredited online, on-demand courses and facilitated workshops, designed and delivered by our wellbeing experts.
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School Kits, Posters & Resources
Make wellbeing visible, engaging and playful in your classroom with our posters, journals and physical resources.
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FREE PODCAST hosted by kids for kids – Season 4 now launched!
Our young hosts use storytelling, interviews with adult experts and humour to increase children’s understanding of their mental health and ways to be resilient.
Silver award-winning ‘Best Wellbeing Podcast’ in the Australian Podcast Awards 2021
Grow Your Mind has reached…
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21,000+ educators
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315,000+ students
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80,000+ families
What educators and students say
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Why wellbeing is so important
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14% of young people met the criteria for a mental disorder diagnosis
and one fifth experienced high or very high levels of psychological distress, according to Beyond Blue
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Australian students are more anxious about schoolwork compared to the OECD average with females, indigenous students and those from low socio- economic backgrounds experiencing the highest levels of stress according to research.
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Australian students are more anxious about schoolwork compared to the OECD average with females, indigenous students and those from low socio- economic backgrounds experiencing the highest levels of stress according to research.
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Our Vision
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Co-founders Alice Peel (teacher) and Kristina Freeman (health practitioner) believe that mental health is not just the presence or absence of a diagnosable mental health condition. Prevention is easier than cure.
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They want to inspire, engage, and connect with schools and families to
Learn ways to be and stay mentally fit
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