Mental Fitness

Physical fitness gets plenty of attention, and for good reason. A healthy body can prevent many physical and mental conditions, and help you maintain independence and live a happy life.

Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness and should not be neglected. Mental fitness can impact physical fitness and can help you reap the benefits of a healthy lifestyle for years to come.

Mental fitness means having an environment and behaviours that encourage good mental health, and the resilience to bounce back from life knocks. Mental fitness is about creating a school-, workplace- or home environment that minimises negative stress, while helping to stretch and develop a young person’s potential. It’s about encouraging creativity, expression, engagement, communication, uniqueness and a positive mindset.

Having good mental fitness will allow you to:

• Be present and connected with those around you
• Feel enthusiastic, focussed, and energised
• Be able to acknowledge and resolve difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them
• Reduce risk of serious mental illness in future
• Be the best version of yourself

Our Headucation programme provides school children and teachers with mental health education and supporting resources. The programme provides full- and partially-funded training, tools and other resources to teachers, heads and pupils.

We believe that improving young people’s mental health is a vital component in improving society’s mental health in the future.

We are calling for support to enable us to accomplish our mission: financial support so that we can provided fully-funded training to schools across the UK; support in making the cause known and helping us create public awareness; and administrative support by getting involved with the training, co-ordination and follow-up with schools in your community.