Healthy Minds

Barriers to Success

The opening lesson of the Resilient Learner series applies the resilience skills to the experience of studying and exams. Students map their personal learning journey on a timeline, identifying highs and lows, what enables them to perform at their best, and the beliefs that helped or hindered them. The ABC model is briefly revisited through a relatable exam scenario to reconnect students with the link between thinking, feeling, and behaviour in an academic context.

Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:

Apply the skills of resilience to studying and exam experiences

Outcome 2:

Identify my personal learning experience

Outcome 3:

Identify and set objectives that improve the learning experience

What's included

A quick look at the classroom-ready resources that come with this lesson.

1 PowerPoint
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3 PDFs
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Healthy Minds Teacher Guide — Safe Learning Agreement pages 5–6
Resilience Competencies page 8
Student Handbook — Learning Timeline page 3

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.

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