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Star of the Show: All of the animals! Character Strengths: Creativity, Leadership and Honesty. Allow me to set the scene of the final episode for Season 3 of the Grow Your  Mind podcast. There is an over enthusiastic librarian.  A theft has occurred. A promise between friends is broken. A struggle of what to do…

Star of the show: The Wise Owl (prefrontal cortex)  3 character strengths: Perspective, Self-Regulation and Perseverance. Last year we received an email from a primary school in Sydney’s inner west “Help! How can we support students who miss out on a leadership role in year 6?” Regardless of age we are all familiar with the…

Star of the Show: The Sifting Sooty aka the Reticular Activating System Focus Character Strengths: Social Intelligence, Curiosity and Generosity Do you think people are doing the best they can? For example, someone cuts you off in traffic. Or a friend doesn’t call you back in a timely fashion. Perhaps a person in the street…

Focus strengths: Respect, Empathy and Confidence. Star of the show: The Sensitive Octopus (aka the insular cortex) In this episode the 12 year old hosts zoom in on boundaries, knowing them and setting them. Boundaries are simply what we define as ok and what is not ok. Easy enough definition but a huge struggle for…

Focus strengths: Courage, Flexibility and Honesty. Star of the show: The Guard Dog  This week’s episode begins with musings around saying sorry. The kids being interviewed are asked if they find it easy or hard to apologise, whether it is even important to say sorry when you have done the wrong thing and if an…

We have created Grow Your Mind songs. They are catchy, cheesy, playful, meaningful and quite simply rock. Hear from our fantastic Grow Your Mind ambassador, Rachel Borthwick on why and how music moves us.

Let’s discuss the impacts of the past 2 years of student wellbeing and how poor mental health affects students behaviour, performance and outcomes in the classroom. What a time to be a kid. The ups. The downs. Even the backflips. Usually kids like rollercoasters, but the one most of us have been on for the…

Why teaching resilience is important and why it doesn’t need to take teachers a lot of extra time to teach. Instead, it’s about a holistic wellbeing culture at school.  In a time when we’ve swapped classrooms for computers and high-fives for hand sanitiser, questions are building about the resilience of our young people. Do they…

A look at why schools should take a holistic approach to wellbeing. One that also includes teachers! In recent decades, schools have become more and more focused on student wellbeing. They understand that in order to learn, students must have a strong social and emotional foundation.   In fact, the link between student wellbeing and academic…

Why wellbeing is so important and what resources exist to help build a wellbeing culture Student wellbeing has always been a concern for many teachers, but the events of the past two years have pushed wellbeing to the top of the priority list. Although we don’t expect to see the same level of disruptions to…