Mental Health Education for
Schools, Communities & Workplaces
HelpingMinds® offers free and informative workshops and services for anyone in the community wishing to learn more about mental health.
Our fun and interactive workshops focus on raising awareness about mental health and reducing the stigma associated with mental ill-health.
We provide adults, children and young people with the knowledge and tools to help manage mental health challenges in themselves or someone close to them.
Our workshops are broken down into Workshops for students and Workshops for teachers, parents, workplaces and community groups
We can provide workshops anywhere within the 200km radius of Perth (or online across WA)
Workshops for students
Our free in-school workshops aim to help young people prevent, identify and respond to mental health challenges. The workshops are suitable for primary and secondary schools and can be tailored to suit specific needs and interests and to fit within timetables.
Contact us or complete the booking form below to book a workshop or program near you.
Who can book: Any school within 200km from Perth CBD or online across WA.
For Students in Years 7 to 10
3 x one-hour workshops
Module 1: Starting Conversations
- Mental-ill health symptoms and misconceptions
- How to check in with a friend
- Identifying other mental health services
Module 2: Facing Challenges
- Identifying risk factors including substance use, loneliness and social media
Module 3: Positive Choices
- Practice ways to boost mental wellbeing
- Introduction to mindfulness meditation
For Students in Years 10 to 12
One hour workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- Practicing Mental Fitness
- Awareness of emotional skills including adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies
- Introduction to mindfulness meditation
For Students in Years 6 to 9
One-hour workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- The positives of social media
- Social media and links to mental health issues
- Not believing everything you see on social media
- Cyber-bullying
- Healthy and safe social media use
For Students in Years 5 to 7
one-hour workshop
- Types of bullying
- On-line
- Off-line
- Why people bully
- Ways to prevent bullying
Book a Workshop
Workshops for teachers, parents, workplaces and community groups.
Our range of free workshops are designed to enhance your understanding & confidence around promoting good mental health and navigating mental health challenges personally and professionally.
Contact us or complete the booking form above to register your interest in booking a workshop.
For parents/caregivers of children 2-10 years
90-minute workshop
- What mental health challenges look like in children
- Identify risk and protective factors associated with self-resilience
- Develop supporting strategies
- Customise resilience-building activities to the unique needs of the child
For adults, teachers and community groups
One-hour workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- Investigating protective factors
- Living out the Mental Healthy WA “Act – Belong – Commit” message
- How to check in with a friend
For adults and community groups
One-hour workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- Identifying signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges
- Talking to someone you are worrying about
- Accessing and referring to support services
For Primary School Staff
90-minute workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- Investigating anxiety in young people
- Recognising and understanding emotions and feelings
- Supporting strategies to promote confidence and independence
- Implementing mindfulness in the classroom
For adults and community groups
One-hour workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- Social media and links to mental health issues
- Recognising risks; fear of missing out, addiction and loneliness
- Cyber-bullying
- Promoting healthy and safe social media use
For any adults or groups
30-minute workshop
This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:
- HelpingMinds Free Services
- How to access them
- When to access them
In-school counselling
(City of Swan)
HelpingMinds® provides free in-school professional counselling to young people aged 8-17 years who have a family member living with mental health challenges. Counselling appointments are carried out weekly or fortnightly in 30- or 60-minute sessions.
Young people up to the age of 18 residing in the City of Swan, who have emotional difficulties or are at risk of developing mental health challenges are also able to access free in-school counselling.
Contact us today to book an appointment.
Early Intervention Workshops for students in
City of Swan and Regional WA
HelpingMinds® delivers a range of workshops, facilitated by qualified counsellors, to support the mental wellbeing of young people aged 6-18 years in the following areas
- City of Swan,
- Gascoyne,
- Midwest and the
- Kimberley
We host our workshops in a nurturing and fun environment where young people can come together in a safe space to work on achieving positive mental health goals.
Each session can be tailored to the cultural needs or interests of your community.
Contact us today to make a booking or to find out more.
Focus on building resilience, emotional awareness and coping strategies using hands-on craft mediums
This workshop aims to
- Build skills consistently in a defined period.
- Build peer support relationships and networks based on shared experience.
- Use craft as a conduit for communicating and expressing difficult emotions.
Focus on healthy friendships, protective behaviours regarding bullying, gaining and maintain friends
The workshop aims to
- Provide education for youth around self-esteem issues.
- Identify and appropriately implement healthy boundaries.
- Explore and explain consent and communication around levels of comfort.
- Encourage an assessment on personal limits.
Focus on exploring emotion regulation for young males.
This workshop aims to provide skills to help
- Children to emotionally regulate during times of stress.
- Learning to communicate emotional limits, triggers and vulnerabilities.
- Maintain healthy relationships with others.
- Identify and respect the boundaries of others.
Focus on gaining awareness of the right to feel safe.
This workshop aims to
- Help children learning about and identify feelings.
- Encourage and explainin early warning signs.
- Teach problem solving techniques.
- Improve body awareness, assertiveness and communicating body autonomy.
Focus on the mental health challenges for youth transitioning to high school
The workshop aims to
- Address the challenges that transitioning to high school can provide.
- Explain how to ask for help.
- Explain the right pathways to access support.
- Improve resilience in the face of adversity.