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Healthier Hearts & Lighter Minds

Mindfull Aus

Healthier Hearts & Lighter Minds empowers primary school students with tools to strengthen resilience, emotional regulation, and mental wellbeing.

  • Vic

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: VIC

Product type: Program; Posters; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Whole school approach or initiative; Educator wellbeing resources or services; Incursion, excursion or immersive experience; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Mindfull Aus
ABN: 43 612 615 988

https://www.mindfullaus.org/primary-schools

bookings@mindfullaus.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1)

Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups, First Nations, Neurodiversity or disability, Rainbow and LGBTQIA+

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

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

The program begins with a focus on social-emotional literacy, emotional regulation, and empathy. As students progress, they explore deeper topics like making positive choices, managing behaviours, anxiety, embarrassment, failure and showing up as their best selves even in the face of setbacks and challenges.

The program includes age-appropriate, fun and engaging workshops delivered by trained Mindfull Aus facilitators, as well as a 12-month curriculum for independent delivery, resources and school support.

Delivery of the workshops requires a quiet space and support from school leadership.

Funding is available through the Victorian Mental Health Menu.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

The impact of the program is supported by a comprehensive evaluation conducted by Social Outcomes Lab (SOULAB) from 2022-2024. Further details about the evaluation can be found here.