Helping Build Positive Mental Health In Schools
What is Positive Mental Health? Positive Mental Health is building thoughts that make you feel good about your life & the choices you make.
With mental strength, you learn how to deal with the lowest times in life and really cherish the good ones.
Building positive mental strength teaches students to stop fixating on what can go wrong and begin fixating on what is already going right
Students learn to understand how comparing themselves and making assumptions is not good for building mental strength.
Happiness is accepting what you can control and what you need to let go of trying to control.
How can Positive Mental Health Life Coaching benefit your students?
Helps Students Shift Their Perspective.
Positive Mental Health Life Coaching helps students to shift their perspective by understanding more about their thought patterns to help with managing emotions.
Work with the cause, not the symptoms.
Thoughts influence the way you feel and the actions you take (or do not take). When the cause of the problem is identified, work begins on separating the facts from the areas we can change, removing the need to treat the symptom.
Students are the expert in their life.
Coaching helps students to focus on their strengths and eliminate the need to judge their weaknesses. Students are the expert in their life and learn the skills of focusing on what they can control and change.
Thank you again for such a wonderful opportunity. The Year 4’s were completely fascinated!!!! Today we learnt how many thoughts we have each day!!!! 60,000!!!!! Insane isn’t it!
We learnt about how the thoughts that we have (both positive and negative!!!!!) influence our emotions and our actions. And… how we are the only ones who can control our own thoughts! We learnt the ‘thought cycle’ and how by changing our thoughts we can change how we feel and how we behave!
We learnt about how to be a great friend to others but most importantly how to be a great friend to ourselves! We explored diversity and how we are all different and how we all think differently!
Such powerful stuff Nat! I just wish you had heard the discussions that we had after lunch today when reflecting on your session! Simply awesome!!!! You really are making such a difference in this world Nat!!!!
Age Appropriate Programs for building mental health
Grade 6 Program: some topics covered:
- Learn about self-love & self-care
- Understand how beautifully imperfect you really are
- Develop skills to handle bullying
- See yourself on social media in a different light
- Why we can’t control the actions of others.
- Building
a positiv e mindset towards failure
Year 7/8 Program: some topics covered:
- Build mental strength through positive self-talk
- Understand yourself and love what you see in the mirror
- Remove assumptions and blame to give you all the power for making the best decisions for you
- Understanding we will all achieve our own version of success and judging ourselves on strengths will ultimately lead to success
Year9/10 Program: some topics covered:
- We can’t control what others think of us so it’s time to let go of what others say or do.
- Other peoples opinions are just a thought and their choice, they are not factual unless you believe it.
- How to thrive by letting go of pretending to be something you’re not.
- Confidence is the decision to believe in yourself. Self-doubt is a decision to believe what you assume others think about you
- Seriously – drama always creates drama.
Year 11/12 Program: some topics covered:
- Competing with others can result in punishing ourselves, compete against your own goals.
- Why it feels good to blame anyone else for our mistakes or confusion
- We can take responsibility for how we feel
- Blaming ourselves achieves nothing and never gets results.
- Confidence is the decision to believe in yourself. Self-doubt is a decision to believe what you assume others think about you
- Perfectionism is a futile trait. We are already being judged so let go of trying to be perfect.
- Why constant comparison is the beginning of never ending unhappiness.
- When we assume we lose sight of empathy
- With all the stories you tell yourself, change the you to I and this give you the power to take control of the
situation - Anxiety is contagious and real and not necessarily a bad thing
- Work on what you can control and let go of what you cant
- Procrastination is looking for an excuse as to why you
didnt achieve your best