About Us 

Fresh Minds Education

Fresh Minds Education provide innovative health promotion solutions  through mobilising evidence base training and technology.  Our mission is to provide cost effective, evidence based, regional and international solutions to identified gaps in the provision of standardised and field tested mental health and wellbeing training.

What we do...

One

Design Health and Wellbeing Training Products for the Public, Private, Education, Community & Voluntary Sectors. 

Two

Regional training for Professional Facilitators from the Health & Education sectors in Suicide Prevention and Emotional Health.

Three

Consultation and evaluation for regional and national organisations. Clients including YMCA Ireland, National Youth Council of Ireland, Public Health Agency, Lottery, Dept Children and Youth Affairs Ireland, Westmeath County Council and Ulster University.

Our Vision

Fresh Minds Education are contributing to a vision of improving human health and wellbeing through the provision of innovative health promotion solutions.  We communicate life changing research & learning simply, creatively and powerfully.

What we do:
​Nurture,  self esteem  -  emotional health  - resilience  -  wellbeing  -  self acceptance  - self care - happiness -  mental health.

How we do it: 
​Through the development and facilitation of Programmes, Workshops, Retreats and Technology.

We work with:
​Professionals, Volunteers, Parents & Young People.

Experience

The company have 10 years’ experience delivering suicide prevention and intervention training programmes in Northern Ireland and the Associates span expertise in Teaching, Training, Educational Psychology, Social Work, Therapy and Youth work. 

They have developed expertise is designing user friendly and effective educational programmes and resources in the field of emotional, mental health and suicide prevention.  Since 2006 they have delivered more than 1,000 emotional health and suicide prevention training programmes and services to over 10,000 people across the Island of Ireland.   The company regularly train facilitators and in suicide prevention have trained more than 80 trainers across Northern Ireland who have cascaded suicide prevention training throughout  the public and community & voluntary sectors, organisations  include; HSCST Staff - Health Teams, Prison Service Northern Ireland, Police Service Northern Ireland, Ambulance Service Northern Ireland, MOD and Northern Ireland Medical and Northern Ireland Dental Training Agency.
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Commissioners of the company include National organisations such as The Public Health Agency of Northern Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Awards for All Lottery Fund and independent partnerships with local community networks and individual organisations.

We have over 10 years of experience devising and delivering training with customers, clients and partners who include the Public Health Agency NI, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Holiday Inn Express, ASDA, Wright Bus, Bombardier, Power NI, Ulster University and the PSNI, Ministry of Defence and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle

Why we do Flm

‘Kindness is always the right answer.’ L.R. Knost

There are now over 7.6 billion people on Earth and whether we like it or not we are all connected. We are linked through the habitat we share, the ground on which we stand, the air we breathe, the resources we use. We connect daily through our interactions as individuals, families, cultures and communities, through business and governments. We may concentrate our engagement with only that which seems important to us, that seems to impact on us and those close to us, but in reality whatever we do has ripples. Our connections have connections and every action, every interaction has a consequence. 
How we interact with others and exist during our life time is dependent on not only upon the times in which we live and the mechanisms at our disposal, but on the choices we make. 
Understanding our interconnections with each other and with the planet can be overwhelming. It can be confusing and indeed swamp our sense of responsibility.  Being overwhelmed can sometimes make us fear to get involved, avoid taking action, turn us off rather than risk getting it wrong. 
At Fresh Little Minds, we firmly believe that action based on compassion will always be the best response. That kindness cannot be wrong.
We need to be gentle on ourselves, be kind to ourselves, be kind to others and kindness towards the planet too; it is our wonderful home.  Stella Murray
Our 7.6 billion people are more the same than they are different, we can all laugh and cry, we all feel fear and hope, we try and we fail.  
When we soften our egos we begin to open ourselves up to our similarities then we are better able to understand each other, better able to communicate and better able to connect. If we can help our children see that it is not what they’ve got but what they do with it that matters, that wealth and status is outweighed by the manner of our being; the way we use our abilities, talents, skills and time; how we act. Kindness is what it’s all about.
But kindness is learned and kindness takes practice. 
It seems like on the whole we are side-tracked and distracted.  We prepare our children and young people for the world of work. We go to great lengths to help them achieve academically to seek the best opportunities and secure jobs. We spend money on resources to facilitate optimum learning in numeracy and literacy, in science and IT, we teach art and sports. We expose them to the wide and wondrous world around them through travel and adventure. We test them again and again, just to check they’ve got it. We dedicate time to teach them to look after their bodies to stay healthy; How to brush their teeth, how to avoid germs, to exercise their muscles and eat well. 
However, high suicide rates, increasing levels of self-harm, mental illness, stress related health issues, anxiety and dissatisfaction, poor education, health and life actions is telling us that we are doing that something isn’t working. 
Fresh Little Minds aims to nurture resilience, develop our ability to connect with ourselves, with each other and with the world. It does not see the mind as separate from the body. It integrates children’s mental health education with sensory approaches and nutrition, teaching children about how their brains work and how they can tune into themselves and be in a relationship with another. 
Fresh Little Minds aims to educate for kindness, enabling children to put compassion into action. It recognises the need to educate the whole child; mind and body. It is education for empowerment; developing children’s power to do the best they can with what they’ve got in the time they’re here. We want children to navigate the world with compassion, acceptance and tolerance. 
Fresh Little Minds Programmes include education about how we work as emotional beings that nurtures emotional intelligence, values empathy and respect and strides towards a happier, healthier and kinder society.