Healthy Minds Compact: Building - My Happy Helps
Children explore healthy positive emotion as one useful part of psychological fitness. The aim is not to remove difficult feelings. Children learn that small, healthy experiences of enjoyment, connection, movement or play can sometimes help them meet difficulty with a more ready mind and body. Core idea: Happiness can be a tool — not a rule.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1:
• understand that nobody needs to feel happy all the time
Outcome 2:
• notice people, places, activities and actions that bring healthy positive emotion
Outcome 3:
• recognise that positive emotion can support flexible thinking, connection, readiness for challenge and recovery
Outcome 4:
• build a realistic bank of things that help
Outcome 5:
• choose when one of those strategies might be useful.
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Contributing Experts
People who helped produce this lesson.
Lucy Bailey
Lucy Bailey is Founder of Bounce Forward and Healthy Minds for Parents. With two decades of experience in mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, and training 1000s of teachers, parents and other adults around children and young people. Lucy is proud of her early career in youth work and children services. Lucy had a poor experience of school and that has driven her passion to influence UK policy to form a positive system of change with psychological fitness at the core. Lucy has directed national research projects (including the Healthy Minds five year study), is certified by University of Pennsylvania, has an MSc in Practice Based Research, a BSc in Social Policy and Criminology, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. Her published book Raise Resilience: Teach your teenager well has led to the creation of the Psychological Fitness Nana bridging old school wisdom with modern psychology for parents of the 21st century.
About the Organisation
Bounce Forward is a registered charity on a mission to transform how we think about mental health, shifting the narrative from deficit and crisis to strength, prevention, and psychological fitness. They create evidence-based programmes, curricula, and training that give young people, school staff, and the adults around children the knowledge, language, and daily habits to build genuine mental resilience. From whole-staff training to five-year school curricula, everything they do is practical, grounded in science, and designed to make a lasting difference not just in the moment, but across a lifetime.