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HM Compact: Expressing gratitude to the people around me

Students explore the research linking gratitude to mental fitness and positive wellbeing. They put this into practice by writing a gratitude letter to someone who has made a difference to them — an activity that builds emotional awareness, strengthens relationships, and boosts mood for both writer and recipient.

Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:

• Understand that expressing gratitude is linked to mental fitness

Outcome 2:

• Write a gratitude letter

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Healthy Minds Compact Lesson 26

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About the Organisation

Bounce Forward is the UK’s psychological-fitness charity.

We help children and young people — and the adults and environments around them — develop the understanding, skills and shared language to regulate, recover and adapt through challenge, change and everyday life.

Our work brings together mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, shifting the focus upstream: building capability before crisis, rather than waiting for something to go wrong. We translate evidence from psychology, resilience research, cognitive behavioural approaches and positive psychology into practical learning that can be taught, modelled and used in real life.

From evidence-informed curricula and staff development to family support and whole-community approaches, our work recognises that young people do not develop in isolation. What happens around a young person shapes what becomes possible within them.

Everything we create is practical, grounded in evidence and designed to build something that lasts — psychologically fit people and communities, better prepared to meet life.

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