Resilience & Harnessing Positive Emotions Secondary
This is the opening lesson of the Healthy Minds Foundation module. It introduces students to the concept of resilience, the skills that help us navigate the inevitable ups and downs of life.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1:
Understand that life is a journey with challenges and that resilience helps us overcome them.
Outcome 2:
Understand the role of positive emotion in supporting wellbeing and resilience.
Outcome 3:
Recognise that emotions can be helpful and unhelpful, and that we can learn to regulate them.
Outcome 4:
Know that WE ALL HAVE RESILIENCE — it is not something only some people have.
What's included
A quick look at the classroom-ready resources that come with this lesson.
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.