Mastering your mind

The Wellbeing Programme for Schools

Building confidence, resilience, and happiness — one lesson at a time

Helping students learn life skills in the same way they learn maths and history.

Mastering Your Mind is a structured wellbeing programme built around a student workbook that teaches essential life skills in a practical and engaging way.

Students develop confidence, emotional awareness, friendships, habits, stress management, and resilience — through lessons that are clear, relevant, and easy for teachers to deliver.

What's included

  • Student workbook built around clear Life Hacks
  • Lesson plans and teacher notes
  • Classroom activities and guided discussions
  • Quizzes, word searches, and reinforcement tools
  • Teacher Powerpoints design for mixed-ability and neurodiverse classrooms

 

Values and frameworks

  • Rooted in strong Jewish values and perspectives, without being preachy
  • Suitable for values-led school enviroments
  • Aligned with UK PSHE and compatible with U.S. SEL frameworks

About Yaakov

Yaakov Barr is a psychotherapist, educator, and creator of the Mastering Your Mind wellbeing programme. With over two decades of experience, he specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and preventative wellbeing work with young people and schools.

He is also the co-founder and CEO of JTeen, supporting young people through its support line, workshops, and training programmes. He has worked extensively with schools, helping them deliver practical, structured approaches to student wellbeing.

His work focuses on translating proven psychological approaches into clear, age-appropriate tools that can be used in real classroom settings.

He is also the author of the award-winning book Mastering Your Mind, which forms the foundation of the programme.

Contact

If you would like to bring the Mastering Your Mind programme into your school or camp, or find out more about how it works, please get in touch. Whether you are a school leader, educator, or organisation, we would be happy to discuss your setting and how the programme can be adapted to suit your needs. Please complete the form below and we will get back to you.

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