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The pre-arrival course of the student wellbeing pathway. It builds nine things research links to success at university, from growth mindset and learning how to learn to grit, emotions, strengths, calm, gratitude, vitality and belonging. You start with My Launchpad Check-In as a private baseline, work through one module per area, and finish by retaking the Check-In and writing My Launch Plan and A Letter to a Future Student.

A self-paced wellbeing and success course for the whole of your first year. Twenty-six weeks run from a gauge week through twenty content weeks in two semesters, with two project fortnights and re-gauges at mid-year and at the end. Every week brings its own check-ins, practices from the FlourishIQ library, tools written for this course, a talk, a reader, a Foundation Note and a ten-question quiz. Universities and colleges also take it for a whole first-year group.

The Stellenbosch University edition of Optimal First Year: a self-paced wellbeing and success course for the whole first year, offered to the university for groups of its first-year students. Twenty-six weeks run from a gauge week through twenty content weeks in two semesters, with two project fortnights and re-gauges at mid-year and at the end. Every week brings its own check-ins, practices from the FlourishIQ library, tools written for this course, a talk, a reader, a Foundation Note and a ten-question quiz.

A seven-module course for university students on the mindset that carries a degree: Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism, held together by a growth mindset and grit. Each is a skill that can be practised, and each module gives you the tools to practise it on your own life: a reader that says what the tools share, short films, and the tools themselves, each with its own private record. You take eight check-ins before you begin and the same eight at the end, so you can read your later numbers beside your earlier ones.

The hub of the student wellbeing pathway. Rather than going deep on one thing, it shows the whole picture of flourishing at university through PERMA+4: Martin Seligman's PERMA, extended by Stewart Donaldson with Physical Health, Mindset, Environment and Economic Security. You draw your own Well-Being Flower, work through a starter kit of proven practices in each of nine areas, and finish with a lasting well-being plan. Take it as a short taste or as a full-semester tour.

University quietly assumes you arrive knowing how to name and settle a feeling, plan and start, read a room, ask for help, handle a disagreement, say no and weigh a decision. This course takes the five social and emotional competencies of the CASEL framework and turns each into small skills you practise deliberately. Every skill has a standard, a tool you use again and again, a weekly practice log, and a re-measure at the mid-point and the end, so the only comparison is you against your earlier self.

Your life is a sailboat and your feelings are its compass; emotional intelligence is being a captain who reads the compass well. This student edition turns emotional intelligence into five skills you practise on your own, again and again: noticing and naming emotions, examining your beliefs about them, reading them as data about needs and values, regulating them, and expressing them in ways that build trust. You take a check-in in week one, keep an emotion logbook throughout, and retake the check-in at the end beside your own Emotional Intelligence Plan.

PROSPER is Toni Noble and Helen McGrath's framework for positive education: Positivity, Relationships, Outcomes, Strengths, Purpose, Engagement and Resilience. It builds on Seligman's PERMA model and adds knowing your strengths and being able to bounce back. You start with your own PROSPER Check-In, then take one pathway at a time, each opening with its assessments, then core practices from the FlourishIQ library, a tool built for student life and extended tools for a longer format.

SEARCH turns Waters and Loton's meta-framework for positive education, Strengths, Emotional management, Attention and awareness, Relationships, Coping, and Habits and goals, into the final-year course of the student wellbeing pathway. You take a private check-in in week one, and your SEARCH Dashboard shows six dials in words. One module per pathway follows, each with its instruments, core practices and extended practices from the FlourishIQ library. At the end you retake the check-in and write a handover of six commitments for your first year after graduation.

A postgraduate degree is one of the few things you do mostly alone, over months or years, often beside a job and a family. This course follows the four crossings of the postgraduate path, starting, the proposal and confirmation, the writing-up year, and submission and after, and brings together what research says helps: support and belonging, a working partnership with your supervisor, an honest plan, a writing rhythm you choose, kindness to yourself on the long road, and a clear view of what comes next.

A free course built on the LearnWell4Life video programme, Boost Your Brain for Study Success (2007). Each of its nine sections has a short video in English, Afrikaans or isiXhosa, the section's own mind map and a practical exercise from the original User's Guide: starting smart, motivation, learning in class, organising what you study, problem-solving, self-study, time management and balance, wellness and stress, and tests and exams. Where research has moved on since the programme was made, a short note headed “What we know now” shows what later studies found and what to do instead.

70 tools across 7 modules timed to the academic semester. HERO = Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism — combined with Growth Mindset and Grit. Evaluated over three years with engineering students; every cohort showed significant growth in mindset, optimism, resilience, and overall flourishing.

20 evidence-based tools built around the engineering student experience — deadlines, problem sets, group projects, the unique stresses of a technically rigorous discipline. Practical strategies for managing stress, building resilience, maintaining focus, and finding balance — framed in ways that make sense for how engineers think.

25 tools tailored to the science-student experience — lectures, lab work, assignments, exams. Evidence-based strategies for handling academic pressure, maintaining balance during intense periods, and developing the kind of mental fitness that supports both studies and life beyond the lab. Lecture-based delivery with FlourishIQ-tool homework.

The most extensive course on the platform — 248 tools combining VideoLight (short evidence-based videos), the Inspire-U-2 ancient-wisdom modules (50 curated quotation collections), MindLight journaling, SoundLight musical reflection, and science-based tools for kindness, forgiveness, and self-compassion. Tracked by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and Person-Activity Fit Diagnostic.

For fifty years, the people who study student development and the people who study flourishing have rarely talked to each other. This course brings them together for everyone who supports university students. It covers the classics (Astin, Pascarella and Terenzini, Kuh, Tinto and his critics, Schlossberg, Chickering and Reisser, Sanford, Baxter Magolda) and the science of flourishing (the dual continua, PERMA, wellness, noncognitive factors), meets them in Laurie Schreiner's work on thriving, reads them in South African higher education, and ends with one small intervention of your own, designed and checked fairly.

The flagship programme — 192 evidence-based tools across 9 modules, built on Professor Martin Seligman's PERMAH framework. Starts with your personal wellbeing baseline, walks each pillar in turn, and finishes with Tiny Nudges for lasting integration plus a final retake to measure your growth.

69 tools across 7 sessions, each chosen for workplace relevance. Covers health habits that sustain performance, emotional intelligence for high-stakes moments, character strengths at work, psychological-safety frameworks, the OFTEN conversation model, job crafting, meaning alignment, and advanced goal-setting.

Not all wellbeing exercises are equal. Every tool here is validated across multiple randomised controlled trials — drawing on Fredrickson's broaden-and-build, Csikszentmihalyi's flow, Gottman's love maps, Gollwitzer's implementation intentions, and Seligman's positive psychology core. Designed for maximum impact in minimum time.

The ten Keys to Happier Living, as set out by Vanessa King, taught as a course. GREAT (Giving, Relating, Exercising, Awareness, Trying out) is what we do out in the world; DREAM (Direction, Resilience, Emotions, Acceptance, Meaning) is the inner work. Twelve modules: a baseline, one module per Key in whatever order your results suggest, and a closing re-measurement that shows you what moved.

Love lasts when two people keep practising it. Drawing on Suzie Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski's Happy Together, John Gottman's research with couples and the wider science of positive psychology, this course helps you see the good in each other, keep passion in balance with the rest of life, share warmth and savour each other, turn towards each other, celebrate what goes right, use your strengths together, give and receive thanks and kindness well, repair after hurt and look after the circle of people around you both. Every tool works together or on your own.

A practical companion for the growing years, from the toddler years to the edge of adolescence. Tools from positive psychology and child development for staying close, talking so children listen and listening so they talk, big feelings and calm, cooperation, boundaries and siblings, play, strengths, mistakes and effort, kindness and gratitude at home, joy and friendship, and looking after yourself as a parent. Every tool says which ages it suits best.

A practical companion for the teenage years, when children grow towards independence and the relationship with them changes. Tools from positive psychology for knowing your teenager as they are now, staying connected, keeping them talking, calm and self-kindness, mistakes and pressure, strengths, gratitude and joy, values, goals and habits, and friends and support, plus a module on looking after yourself. Every tool says which ages it suits best.

A practical, evidence-based companion for anyone caring for a parent, partner, child, relative or friend. It follows the whole journey of caring: recognising the role and taking it on, bringing the family in, speaking up with doctors and services, the long middle years of pressure, guilt, rest and meaning, keeping the person you care for at the centre, planning ahead, the times when care changes shape, and life when caring ends. Built on the research on what helps carers most, with South African grants, services and helplines.

Most good days start the evening before. This course helps you build a morning routine and an evening routine that fit your own body clock and your own life, and then test them on yourself. Watch your days as they really are, find where your body clock sits, close the day on purpose, look after the night, design your first half hour, and run small, honest experiments so that you keep only what works for you. Every practice shows how strong its evidence is.

Twelve steps of lifestyle medicine, from a framework built by physicians Beth Frates, Michelle Tollefson and Amy Comander: physical activity, attitude, variety, investigation, nutrition, goals, stress resilience, time-outs, energy, purpose, sleep and social support. You begin by taking the Wheel, sixty statements across all twelve steps, and read its shape rather than its total. Then you work the step that came back thinnest, one at a time, and end by taking the Wheel again and choosing the step you carry forward.

Positive health is more than the absence of illness: it combines positive psychology with lifestyle medicine, the science of how sleep, movement, food, stress and relationships shape the body. This course is organised after the positive-health framework of Jolanta Burke, Pádraic Dunne, Trudy Meehan, Ciarán O'Boyle and Christian van Nieuwerburgh of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, with their tools in eight groups: calming, energising, coping, feeling good, making meaning, relationships, prospecting and emerging. You open by rating your Wheel of Health and Wellbeing and close by retaking it and writing your own Health Plan.

This course teaches Dr Paula Robinson's Mental Fitness model as a training programme. Like physical fitness, mental fitness has parts you can train: strength, endurance, flexibility and team. You measure where you stand, train each part with the practices that build it, and leave with a programme you can keep. Running through it is a second idea from Angela Duckworth's research on situations: train the inside, choose the outside.

Society handed you one way to keep score, and it was money. This course gives you a wider scorecard: ten dimensions of wealth, from time, growth and mental wealth to craft, social, adventure and service, each with its own module and tools. You begin with the forty-item Holistic Wealth Scorecard, work the dimensions that came back thin, retake the Scorecard, and end by writing one non-negotiable rule to protect what matters. The frame is inspired by Sahil Bloom and Robin Sharma, and every claim inside a tool is cited to its original research source.

Your life is a sailboat on a journey, you are its captain, and your feelings are the compass. This course turns emotional intelligence into five skills you practise on your own, again and again: noticing and naming emotions, examining what you believe about them, reading them as data about your needs and values, regulating them with strategies that work, and expressing them in ways that build trust. Eight modules follow an eight-session programme by Houston and Alberts, with a private check-in at the start and the end, an emotion logbook kept throughout, and a plan of your own to carry forward.

This course starts from the Serenity Prayer and does what the prayer never does: it shows you how to tell apart what to accept, what to change, and what can only be changed together, and what to do once you know. It brings together Angela Duckworth's work on the power of your situation, the Positive World Collective's widening circles of shared change, Martin Seligman's work on agency, and Alex Budak's changemaker skills. Eleven modules move from a six-box map of your situation through serenity, agency, courage, changemaking, hope and action to your own version of the prayer.

Research shows that how you think about ageing powerfully shapes how you age — people with positive views of growing older live longer and report deeper satisfaction. 20 tools across 5 modules: challenge ageing beliefs, explore identity across your life arc, practise self-compassion and gratitude, clarify your legacy, and sustain daily energy, joy, and connection.

Evidence-based practices for a richer life through eight arts: music, visual arts, literature and poetry, theatre, film, history, philosophy and the sacred arts. A foundation module on awe, savouring and the imaginative life teaches how the arts work on us; each art then opens as its own door. Every tool is a small guided encounter, minutes long, built on the science of the Positive Humanities. The course has its own ImagineArts dashboard, with an audio introduction, Foundation Notes and resource sheets.

Rest is not a reward for finishing everything. It is part of how a good life works. This course is about travel and leisure lived deliberately, for any journey, near or far: a trip away, a weekend, a day out in your own town, or an ordinary week. It follows a journey from the looking forward, through the planning and the travelling, to coming home, and then brings the same care to the small journeys close to home that you can take again and again.

Your faith is older and larger than any study of it. Flourish Through Faith is a course of practices: things a believer can actually do, week by week. There are six, one to a module: purpose and meaning, contemplative prayer and silence, forgiveness, rest, service, and belonging in a congregation. The course offers the practices with the evidence beside them, at its real strength, including the parts that disappointed us.

Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: a person is a person through other persons. A companion to Mungi Ngomane's Everyday Ubuntu, this course turns her fourteen lessons into an everyday practice across eight modules, each lived through a South African way of being together: the ninjani check-in, the shared pot, talking under the tree, the work party and the stokvel spirit. It ends with the builder's pledge.

We spend much of our lives in gatherings, and most of them run on habit. A companion to Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, with Peter Block, Charles Vogl, Adam Grant and Bruce Feiler, this course walks you through one gathering of your own: its real purpose, the guests and the place, your role as host, the invitation and the opening, the questions and small groups at its heart, and an ending worth remembering.

So much of life now happens through a screen. This free week is an invitation back into the room: one small, real act of connection a day, each taking ten to fifteen minutes, from a conversation with the phone away to a shared meal and an invitation, with a short check at the start and the end to see what changed.

Most of us guide someone, and most of us fall into one of two habits: the enforcer, with high standards and little support, or the protector, with plenty of support and low standards. A companion to David Yeager's 10 to 25, with Adam Grant's Hidden Potential and Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, this course builds the third way: the mentor mindset, through respect, transparency, questions, stress and purpose, belonging, wise feedback and scaffolding.

Our lives turn on moments of change, and for most of human history people marked them together. A companion to Bruce Feiler's A Time to Gather, with his Life Is in the Transitions, this course helps you design rituals, small or large, for the moments that matter: welcoming a child or a newcomer, a coming of age, a commitment, a loss or an ending, a fresh start, and the traditions your family, team or community keeps.

Agency is the belief that what you do matters, and it has a we form: a group's shared belief that together it can change things. A companion to Martin Seligman's Agency, this course turns his exercises for agency into practice for a group you belong to: questioning a belief that nothing can change, imagining your community at its best, starting with small shared wins, opening the doors that are closed, and sharing agency so it lasts.

Most help happens because someone asked, and people say yes far more often than we expect. A companion to Wayne Baker's All You Have to Do Is Ask, with Adam Grant's Give and Take, this course builds both halves of one habit: asking clearly and without apology, and giving generously without burning out, then making asking and giving normal in your team, residence, workplace or community.

Almost everyone who joins a group quietly wonders whether they belong. A companion to Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, with the Handbook of Wise Interventions, this facilitator's kit helps you run tested belonging exercises with a group you serve: belonging stories, letters to newcomers, an anonymous round, strength stories, a difference panel, norms as invitations and caring notes, always with people rather than to them.

A community is more than a group with shared interests: its members care about one another's welfare. A companion to Charles Vogl's The Art of Community, this course takes the seven principles of a lasting community, one module at a time, and helps you apply each to a real community you lead or belong to, so that by the end you have your community on one page.

Every group has hard moments: a disagreement that turns personal, one voice that fills the room, a member who is clearly not okay, a meeting that goes wrong. A companion to Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, with Adam Grant and others, this course builds the host's craft: kind but firm authority, safety to speak, good conflict, sharing the floor, helping someone reach help, and repair.

Hosts often guess how their community is doing, and guesses can be wrong. A companion to Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, with Peter Block, this course shows you how to listen to a whole community: ask a few fair questions anonymously, keep a privacy promise, read numbers and stories honestly, report back, and change one thing together.

Many good communities fade when the person who carries them steps away. A companion to Charles Vogl's The Art of Community, with Martin Seligman, Adam Grant, David Yeager, Bruce Feiler and Priya Parker, this course helps you build a community that can go on without you: growing people, sharing roles and decisions, writing down what matters, handing over well, and knowing when to renew it or to end it with gratitude.

Many groups meet for years and never really talk: people attend, listen and leave. A companion to Peter Block's Community: The Structure of Belonging, with Priya Parker, Adam Grant, David Yeager, Geoffrey Cohen and Marissa King, this course shows you how to hold six conversations in small groups over a season (invitation, possibility, ownership, dissent, commitment and gifts), so that the people in your community become its owners.

Dr Daniel Amen's twelve-lesson course on the brain before 25, developed with Dr Jesse Payne and presented by Dr Alten du Plessis, who is licensed to teach Dr Amen's programmes. The lessons move from brain basics and how the brain develops, through the brain systems behind focus, flexibility, anxiety and mood, to what hurts the brain, mental health and when to seek help, understanding other people's brains, automatic negative thoughts, nutrition and exercise, and learning and stress. Every lesson has its lesson questions as a tool, the programme's exercises such as the One-Page Miracle and the ANTeater Chart become tools too, and My Lesson in Action closes each lesson with a first step for the week ahead.

Dr Daniel Amen's six-step programme for a brain fit life, presented by Dr Alten du Plessis, who is licensed to teach Dr Amen's programmes. After a welcome module come the six B.R.A.I.N. LOVE steps: Brain, Rational Mind, Attachment, Inspiration, Nourishment and LOVE. Every step asks you to reflect, discuss it with your group, take the next steps and choose tiny habits, and Step 1 includes the BRIGHT MINDS risk assessment, your BRIGHT MINDS Profile and the 110 ways to boost your brain.

Dr Daniel Amen's programme, presented with Tana Amen, for protecting your memory and keeping your brain young by working on the 11 major risk factors remembered as BRIGHT MINDS. It is presented by Dr Alten du Plessis, who is licensed to teach Dr Amen's programmes. You begin with your important health numbers and the BRIGHT MINDS Risk Assessment, map your risks and commitments, then take each risk factor in its own module with a plan and one tiny habit. The last module brings all eleven together.

Dr Daniel Amen and Tana Amen's six-session programme, presented by Dr Alten du Plessis, who is licensed to teach Dr Amen's programmes. It works on both the brain and the mind: Sessions 1 and 2 help you assess your brain and mind, Session 3 takes the eleven BRIGHT MINDS strategies one at a time, Sessions 4 and 5 tame thirteen kinds of Dragons from the Past, and Session 6 develops relentless courage. Each of the forty-two lessons has a tool with its key points and its application.

Dr Daniel Amen's one-to-one coaching programme for his Licensed Brain Trainers, presented by Dr Alten du Plessis, who is licensed to teach Dr Amen's programmes. Across thirteen modules you work through the four circles of wholeness and healing, your motivation and challenges, the ten success strategies, your brain systems and brain type, your numbers and BRIGHT MINDS risks, nourishment and exercise, sleep, pain and hormones, relationships, cravings, and protecting your brain. The last module covers when and how to seek professional care, with the Amen Clinics questionnaires to take to a health professional.

Grounded in cognitive psychology, 30 practical digital tools help you identify limiting beliefs, understand where they came from, and replace them with beliefs rooted in evidence and self-awareness. Not positive thinking for its own sake — genuine belief transformation across 5 modules.

Answers the question every new user asks: will this actually work? 11 tools across 4 modules using BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method from Stanford, habit stacking, and personal-systems design. Includes a personal growth commitment contract. Think of this as the engine room that powers everything else on FlourishIQ.

In a world full of distractions, the ability to direct your attention with purpose is one of the most valuable skills you can develop. 28 evidence-based tools walk you through how attention works, why it wanders, and how to reclaim it — building habits aligned with your values and routines that support your goals.

Performance is not about working harder — it is about working smarter, managing your energy, and developing the habits that allow you to consistently show up at your best. 94 tools span focus, motivation, goal-setting, resilience, time management, and recovery — applicable across student, professional, and athletic contexts.

Job crafting is not about changing jobs — it is about changing how you do this one. 16 tools across 4 modules guide you through the complete process: task crafting changes what you do, relational crafting changes who you connect with, and cognitive crafting changes how you think about your work.

50 evidence-based tools and 18 structured practices — one of the most thorough values-discovery programmes available. Five phases: baseline assessment, values exploration with 120+ values to consider, deep creative exploration (ikigai, eulogy, vision board), behaviour-to-values bridging, and final measurement.

Most people wait to feel confident before they act, yet confidence usually arrives after the action. This course treats confidence as something you practise: the way you talk to yourself, handle a mistake, read your nerves and choose who backs you. The core is eleven modules built around seven practices, from taking stock to a personal playbook for the moments that test you, resting on Albert Bandura's research on self-efficacy. Optional add-ons serve leaders, parents, teachers and coaches, and short packs take the skills into study, work, sport, the stage, relationships, health and life changes.

Most of us drift more than we choose: through scripts we never wrote, habits we never meant to form and attention that others steer for us. This course trains the five skills that turn good intentions into a life you steer, on your own and with the people around you. It builds on the book Intention by Ross, Krastev and Pilat and on the stronger research behind it, stated at its real strength. Every tool built for the course ends the same way: an intention, an if-then plan and a cue.

A thinking-skills course built on ThinkWell, developed by the EquipU4 team at Stellenbosch University for the LearnWell programme. You learn nineteen practical skills, from weighing pros, cons and alternatives and taking all information into account to planning, decision-making and problem-solving, each with its own image to remember it by. Every skill is paired with the habit of mind that makes you use it when it matters, and grown with stretch, feedback and effective effort. You practise each one on a real situation from your own life, take a check-in on sixteen thinking habits at the start and the end, and finish with one whole undertaking of your own that uses the full toolkit.

Joy is not the reward for a life without problems; it is the lift that tells you something good is possible, that you matter and that you are not alone. A companion to Kelly McGonigal's Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking, with her The Joy of Movement, this course turns her Joy Experiments into practices of your own, organised around four sources of joy and seven resources you already have: body, brain, attention, instincts, emotions, choices and relationships.

We are living longer than any generation before us, yet most of what we hear about the second half of life is about decline. A companion to Kerry Burnight's Joyspan, Chip Conley's Learning to Love Midlife and Tim Sharp's Live Happier, Live Longer, this course turns their ideas into practices: a longer map of life, a kinder relationship with your body, curiosity and wisdom, a circle worth tending, resilience, peace with old regrets, purpose for this season, and a plan for keeping your tank full.

Every life holds stories worth keeping. A companion to Richard Campbell and Cheryl Svensson's Writing Your Legacy, in the tradition of James Birren's Guided Autobiography, this course walks you through the whole craft of a life story: why to write it, writing with the senses and your own voice, building a story from the inside out, waking old memories and writing hard chapters gently, thirty-five themes from forks in the road to the times you lived through, a legacy letter, and finishing, sharing and writing together in a group.

Most of us are busy and mean well, yet many weeks slip past on autopilot. A companion to Jodi Wellman's You Only Die Once, this course uses gentle, deliberate reflection on the time we have as a spark for living more fully now: taking stock, growing your life in width (vitality) and depth (meaning), learning from close calls without a crisis, catching regrets before they form, waking from autopilot, and putting one real thing in your diary.

A sky full of stars, a choir lifting a song, a stranger's quiet courage: moments of awe make the world feel bigger and ourselves more connected to it. A companion to Dacher Keltner's Awe, Jonah Paquette's Awestruck and Monica Parker's The Power of Wonder, this course treats wonder as a skill: the eight kinds of wonder people describe, the way in through openness, curiosity and full attention, and everyday practices with people, in nature, in music, art and the sacred, at life's thresholds, and at work and study.

When did you last have so much fun that you lost track of time? A companion to Catherine Price's The Power of Fun, Mike Rucker's The Fun Habit and Elaine O'Brien and Andrea Seydel's The Power of Play, this course treats fun as a skill: the three ingredients of the fun people remember most (playfulness, connection and absorption), making room for it in a full week, finding the kinds of play that suit you, fun with others, laughter, movement, music and games, fun in ordinary days, and turning it into a habit that lasts.

Most of us do not lack good intentions; we lack simple structure that carries them on busy, imperfect days. A companion to Ben Meer's How to Be Good at Life, this course teaches five steps for building any system (see it, map it, set it up, check it, grow it) and applies them to habits, checklists and ninety-day projects across seven areas of life: where to focus, protecting one routine and pursuing one project, breaking goals down, making plans hold on hard days, shaping your surroundings, freeing time, checking progress kindly, and growing your systems as life changes.

Everyone longs to matter. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein calls it the mattering instinct. The first course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Goldstein's The Mattering Instinct, Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky's How People Matter, John R. Miles's The Mattering Effect, Nicholas Epley's A Little More Social and Zach Mercurio's The Power of Mattering, it works with the authors' own ideas: the Anti-Mattering Scale, the mother of all mattering questions and the mattering map, the mattering wheel and the M.A.T.T.E.R. Compass, the liking gap and the gratitude letter, mattering adjudicators and the Mattering Tax, self-mattering and your mattering project, the urge to universalize, and enough mattering to go around.

Whether people feel they matter is shaped less by programmes and perks than by small, repeated moments with the people who lead, teach and care for them. The second course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Zach Mercurio's The Power of Mattering, Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky's How People Matter, John R. Miles's The Mattering Effect and Nicholas Epley's A Little More Social, it turns Mercurio's three practices, noticing, affirming and needing, into skills: the Mattering Self-Assessment for Leaders, energy check-ins and listening for total meaning, the four unique gifts and meaningful gratitude, laddering and "If it wasn't for you", easy opportunities for kind words, a SER culture and psychological safety, and the mattering audit, a mattering blueprint and a Mattering Circle.

A meaningful life is rarely built from grand gestures; it grows in ordinary places. The third course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Emily Esfahani Smith's The Power of Meaning, Arthur C. Brooks's The Meaning of Your Life and Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions, it starts with the Meaning in Life Questionnaire and Brooks's four portraits, then works through Smith's four pillars of meaning (belonging, purpose, storytelling and transcendence), growing through hardship, and interrupting the meaning doom loop, before closing with cultures of meaning and your own meaning plan.

Meaning is not only found in big decisions; it can be made, a little each day, in the life you already have. The fourth course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's How to Live a Meaningful Life, it follows their book chapter by chapter: their POV Assessment and three reframes of meaning, the Designer's Way and its five mindsets, Day Start Statements and the Got To-Get To reversal, the world switch, wonder glasses and museum magic, building your compass, many everyday ways into flow, formative communities, and tips for every age and stage.

A good life is not only a happy or a meaningful one; it can also be a rich one, full of variety, surprises and experiences that change how you see things. The fifth course of MatteringWell4Life, a companion to Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions, it begins with his Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire and follows his book: staying or going, the ingredients of a rich day, playfulness and the detour, doing it yourself, art, film, sport and books, exploration, the stories we tell, and a good life without regrets.

Everyone can think creatively, and it grows with practice. Built on the OECD's PISA 2022 framework for creative thinking, this course teaches its three moves in everyday life: come up with different ideas, find an original idea that still works, and improve an idea, your own or someone else's. It then takes them into problems with people, puzzles worth testing and creating with AI while keeping your own ideas first, and ends with a creative habit of your own. A Creative Toolbox of classic techniques sits beside the eight modules, each credited to its originator.

AI can now write, summarise, recommend and answer almost anything, which makes good human judgement matter more than ever. This course teaches it in eight weekly steps: noticing where AI already shapes your day, deciding when to use AI and when not to, sharing a task with it while keeping your own thinking strong, checking what it tells you, checking any claim from any source, reading numbers in the news, widening what your feeds show you, and seeing why a confident answer feels true. Built on the OECD and European Union's AI literacy framework and UNESCO's AI competency framework for students. No technical AI skills.

Based on Achor's 2010 book and the positive-psychology research that began in the late 1990s — 21 tools and 11 Foundation Notes across 9 modules. The seven principles in turn: the Happiness Advantage, Fulcrum & Lever, Tetris Effect, Falling Up, Zorro Circle, the 20-Second Rule, and Social Investment.

Adaptation of Achor's 2013 book — the part of your potential that sits upstream of performance. 20 tools across 7 modules with 8 Foundation Notes. Walks the five Skills — Reality Architecture, Mental Cartography, the X-Spot, Noise Cancelling, and Positive Inception — and transparently substitutes modern science where the original load-bearing citations have been challenged.

Adaptation of Achor's 2018 book — the part of your potential you cannot reach alone. 20 tools across 7 modules with 9 Foundation Notes. Built on Edmondson's psychological-safety research, Barsade's ripple-effect work, and Grant's give-and-take literature. The five SEEDS — Surround, Expand, Enhance, Defend, Sustain — close with the Virtuous Cycle.

Adaptation of Achor's 2026 book — 20 tools across 3 modules with 5 Foundation Notes. The seven Core Power Beliefs (my behaviour matters, I am grateful, I matter, I have something to give, I am not alone, this work is meaningful, there is something greater than me) plus six practical Strategies of Belief Change including the Disaster Elevator and the Memory DeLorean.

Resilience is not a rare gift but ordinary magic, built from everyday skills and relationships, and you have used it many times already. The first course of RiseWell: The Resilience Series begins with your own resilience story and a short check-in you can use after any setback, then adds four foundations: curiosity over judgement in the mind, befriending difficult emotions and growing positive ones in the heart, movement as a tool in the body, and knowing that you matter in connection and spirit. It ends with one practice to carry forward.

The second course of RiseWell: The Resilience Series. It trains the skill at the centre of resilient thinking, being accurate and flexible about how you explain what happens, and the regulation that makes clear thinking possible. Six modules move through mind (the ABCDEFG, building on Albert Ellis's ABC and Martin Seligman's ABCDE), heart (how thoughts and feelings drive each other), body (the breath as a lever on your nervous system) and connection (belonging, listening and closeness). It stands on its own, and trains the same four areas as RiseWell 1 at a deeper level.

The third course of RiseWell: The Resilience Series, which trains mind, heart, body and spirit at a deeper level in each course. Here, the mind learns to doubt its doubts and work with worry rather than obey it; the heart makes you the Chief Energy Officer of your own life; the body looks at food as fuel for mood and energy; and the spirit looks at trust, in yourself, in others and in life. You measure where you stand at the start and compare at the end.

The fourth and final course of RiseWell: The Resilience Series. The earlier courses built the skills; this one makes them fast enough to use in a meeting, a conversation or a hard day. In the mind, you talk back to unhelpful chatter in real time, supported by mindfulness; in the heart, you climb the emotion ladder one rung at a time; in the body, you use movements that shift your state; and in spirit, you work on alignment. You finish by taking the Brief Resilience Scale again and building your own resilience plan.

A course in working skilfully with your own thoughts and feelings. It teaches four procedures (a daily scan, an examination for one thought, a four-step operation and a truth swap), then the ten convictions that hold them up, fifteen short protocols for particular hard days, and sixty-second versions for when there is no time. Faith and neuroscience sit side by side, and the course draws a clear boundary about when to bring in professional help.

Self-compassion means treating yourself with the same kindness and care you would offer a good friend who is struggling. Built on Kristin Neff's three elements of mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness, the toolkit is designed to be felt in the body, not only understood in the head. A welcome and seven modules, each building on the last, take you from understanding self-compassion, to embodying it, to working with the inner critic, to a personal plan you can carry forward.

20 of the most effective research-backed tools from CBT, mindfulness, positive psychology, and ACT, organised across 5 modules. Module 1: interrupt the anxiety spiral. Module 2: rethink worry. Module 3: build self-compassion. Module 4: activate character strengths. Module 5: values-based living beyond fear.

Your nervous system shapes how you feel, react, and experience the world. When regulated: calm, present, and capable. When dysregulated: everything feels harder. 22 tools grounded in polyvagal theory teach you to recognise body signals, calm an activated system, and build a baseline of resilience.

You breathe every moment of every day — yet most people have never learned to use it intentionally. 15 specific techniques, grounded in scientific research, that calm the nervous system, sharpen focus, lift energy, and help you navigate stress. Short, practical, designed to fit into real life.

29 tools and 7 guided meditation experiences. Meditation is not about emptying your mind — it is about developing a kinder, more aware relationship with your thoughts, your body, and the present moment. Short practices for busy days, longer sessions for going deeper. Body-based, breath-based, everything in between.

Grief tools in five short modules, for the things people need to do while grieving: understanding what grief is doing to you, getting it out of your head, carrying the person with you, living alongside the loss, and not doing it alone. The course will not speed grief up; what it offers is company and structure, and a clear account of when grief needs more than a course. Nineteen tools were written for this course, with four more drawn from the wider FlourishIQ library.

Most people who struggle with boundaries are not unkind; they are the opposite, and that is the problem. This course takes you from seeing where your limits sit, through the values they rest on and the reasons they slip, to saying them kindly and holding them where it is hardest: at work, at the edge of the working day, on the phone and with difficult people. It closes with the relationships where the pattern was set and a journal that keeps the work honest.

A conflict-resolution course in four modules, ordered the way a conflict has to be handled: steady first, see it clearly, say it well, then repair and grow. Regulating comes before reasoning, seeing clearly comes before speaking, and repair is treated as a skill of its own. Two measures frame the course: the Conflict Resilience Capacity Map, taken at the start and again at the end, and the Perspective Elasticity Profile in Module 2.

Loneliness is one of the most common human experiences, and one of the least talked about. Thirty practical tools across six modules and a bonus help you understand your own loneliness, build your inner foundation, grow social confidence, widen your circle, deepen the connections that matter and make a plan of your own. Gentle, practical and useful at any stage of life.

Loneliness is one of the defining challenges of our time, and meaningful conversation is one of the most reliable answers. 22 evidence-based tools across 5 modules — from the three-criteria question test through vulnerability, listening, daily posture, the practice in the wild, and how to facilitate Big Talk events for others. Adapted from Kalina Silverman's Big Talk (Tarcher / Penguin Random House, 2026) and built as an academic companion at Stellenbosch University.

Good conversation is a set of small, learnable moves. This course is a companion to Alison Wood Brooks' book Talk (2025): it follows her four TALK maxims, Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness, then tests them where conversation is hardest: in groups, in disagreement, across difference and in repair. Every move comes with a tool, every tool with a short Learn section grounded in the research, and FlourishTalk supplies the questions for any setting.

Most relationships stay where small talk leaves them. This course is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards' book Conversation (2026) and its workbook: it follows her Conversation Blueprint through three levels of knowing a person, from the facts to their goals to the story they tell about themselves. Every question she recommends is in the course, to answer yourself first and then ask; every move comes with a tool, and every Learn section cites the original studies.

"Friend" is too small a word for all the people in our lives. A companion to Adam Grant's Vibe, with Marissa King's Social Chemistry, this course maps your people on four wavelengths of connection (associates, pals, allies and companions), helps you grow the thin ones on purpose, shows you the shape of your network, and keeps real human ties strong in the age of AI.

Many of the conversations that matter most cross a line. A companion to Geoffrey L. Cohen's Belonging, with Adam Grant's Think Again, this course shows how us and them forms, how to ask rather than guess, how to think again together, how to hold hard conversations and exchange stories across the divide, and how to build bridges that last, with firm lines where dignity is at stake.

Your working life is a sailboat on a journey, and your feelings are the compass. Built from an eight-session programme on the sailboat metaphor, this course turns emotional intelligence into five skills you practise alone and repeatedly at work: noticing and naming emotions, examining your beliefs about them, reading them as data about your needs and values, regulating them under pressure, and expressing them in ways that build trust. You take a private check-in in week one, keep an emotion logbook throughout, and finish with your own plan and the check-in again.

Most managers were promoted for doing the work well, then handed a team without being taught how to develop people. This course teaches the coaching conversation itself: when to coach, mentor or manage; asking before telling; one conversation structure run properly; curious questions; listening and the pause; feedback that lands; the hard conversations; development on the job; the hidden commitments that keep good intentions stuck; and a team in which everyone develops someone. Each of the ten modules has one tool built for managers and a set of tools from the FlourishIQ library.

A course for one person who wants to make their team a better place to work. You read the nine building blocks of flourishing at work, the PERMA+4 framework, for yourself and for your team as you see it, ask the team one question, and choose one block. Then you run short activities with your team in ordinary meetings for about six months, with a personal track for your own practice beside them, and finish by taking the reading again, answering five evaluation questions and deciding to keep, tweak or swap. Your team members do not need an account. Built on Donaldson and Chen's Positive Organizational Psychology (Wiley, 2026) and the research behind it.

ALIGHT is a model of positive leadership developed by Cornelia Lucey and Jolanta Burke: six resources, Abundance, Limberness, Inspiration, Grand Design, Health and Tribe, each with three components. The course gives one module to each of the eighteen components, between an opening module that takes your baseline and a closing module that takes it again and turns the difference into a development plan. Each module is a session with a Foundation Note, a reader and its tools.

Every group that does things together has a culture, whether anyone chose it or not. TeamSmart helps a group see it, name it and practise it on purpose, through 29 tools in 5 modules, one for each moment every group meets: when we start, every week, when it is hard, when we look back, and when we see each other. Sixteen tools are for a person to use, twelve are sessions a group runs from a printed card, and one is a private measure of how safe the team feels. It draws on licensed positive psychology team exercises and on the team science of Edmondson, Coyle, Burkus, Beeckman and Friedman.

Psychological skills for a sustainable legal career, in a two-year programme of 28 modules built around the challenges of early practice. You begin with an audit that reports eleven separate figures and names the modules that will do most for you, then work the modules in the order your results suggest, re-measuring at the mid-point and the end. Each module opens with its instruments, works through its practices and closes with a reader, a Foundation Note and a quiz; two project modules ask you to write the year down honestly.

A two-year programme for the intern years and the years after them, built on REVAMP, the six elements of physician flourishing: positive Relationships, Engagement, Vitality, positive Accomplishment, Meaning and Positive emotions. It begins where the evidence begins: health is more than the absence of illness, and that applies to doctors too. Each of the twenty-nine modules carries its own instruments, practices from the FlourishIQ library, tools written for this course, a reader and a Foundation Note. You take the instruments at the start, the mid-point and the end, and watch your own numbers move.

A course for teachers, lecturers and tutors that turns the research on how people learn into practice. In nine modules you learn the science, try each technique as a learner yourself, plan it into a real lesson or lecture, run a small experiment with your own class and check your understanding: memory and cognitive load, retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving, explaining well, guiding the learning, feedback, teaching students to study, motivation and belonging, and how to read the research. Every study comes from the TeachSmart Evidence Library, checked against the published paper and graded for the strength of its evidence. The course leads to the Certificate in Evidence-Informed Teaching.

The full Compete Well course: a self-paced mental performance programme for athletes of any sport and level, built around your season. It starts with your season and your own performance profile, builds the mental toolbox of routines, nerves, self-talk, imagery, focus, confidence and practice that transfers, then turns to the moments that test it and to the whole athlete behind the performance. It closes with a season review and your profile re-rated.

The complete mental game series for athletes of any sport: twenty modules and 132 tools covering every mental skill an athlete needs. Confidence, focus, composure, motivation, resilience, pre-competition routines, in-the-moment strategies, goal-setting, self-talk. Each week builds on the last.

An 8-module programme with 69 tools built around the Gritty VIPER framework — grit + resilience + growth mindset combined into one integrated system. Progressively deeper modules teach you to embrace challenge, persist through difficulty, learn from setbacks, and keep growing whatever your sport or stage.

Consistent mental preparation leads to consistent performance. This Compete Well course prepares you for competition day in four modules taken in order: a preshot routine for every stop-and-go skill, a pregame routine as your final mental tune-up, performing beyond your comfort zone, and embracing pregame jitters. Each module works through its exercises, this week's action plans and a post-game assessment, then adds one or two optional tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

Self-confidence is how strongly you believe in your ability to execute a skill or task, and this course teaches you to build it on purpose rather than leave it to chance. Three modules, taken in order, move from proactive confidence before competition, to the most common confidence killers for athletes, to protecting your confidence after a poor warm-up or a hard performance. Each module works through its exercises, this week's action plans and a post-game assessment, with one or two optional tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

A focused course in the Compete Well series for athletes who over-think in competition. Two modules, taken in order, teach the difference between the practice mindset and the trust, or performance, mindset, help you spot when your trust breaks down, and build trust in your skills for competition. Each module follows its workbook session from the objective to the exercises, this week's action plans and a post-game assessment, then adds one or two optional tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

Mistakes are only triggers; how you react to them leads to frustration or to composure. This Compete Well course works in two modules taken in order: Coping With Mistakes, then Coping With Perfectionism. Each module moves through its workbook exercises, this week's action plans and a post-game assessment, then adds one or two optional practice tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

Worrying about what others think is part of human nature, but in sport it can turn into pressure and fear of failure, and you end up playing it safe. This Compete Well course has two modules, taken in order: the first tackles the need for approval, false mind reading and performing for yourself; the second helps you find the specific fear beneath fear of failure and confront it with a fresh perspective. Each module closes with this week's action plans and a post-game assessment.

Many athletes confuse self-confidence, your belief in performing tasks, with self-esteem, how you feel about the person you are. This course helps you separate your achievement in sport from your worth as a person. Two modules, taken in order, explore who you are beyond your sport and then practise unconditional self-acceptance, each with exercises, this week's action plans, a post-game assessment and optional tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

A focused course in the Compete Well series for athletes who lose focus in competition. The first module identifies your performance cues and top distractions and builds a Plan A that keeps your mind on the process; the second teaches Plan B, the three R's of recognise, regroup and refocus. Each module follows its workbook session through the exercises, this week's action plans and a post-game assessment, then adds one or two optional tools from the wider FlourishIQ library.

As you achieve more in your sport, your expectations rise with you, and so does the pressure. This Compete Well course helps you uncover the strict expectations that undermine your confidence and replace them with manageable objectives. Two modules, taken in order: first you name your expectations and set process goals for each area of your game, then you make those goals your game-time habit with this week's action plans and a post-game assessment.

You may be fully ready to return physically and still not feel ready mentally. This course helps you, once you are medically cleared, return to sport with confidence and trust in your game. Two modules, taken in order, cover the four mental game skills for returning: facing the challenges of your return, managing your expectations, focusing on the process, and rebuilding proactive confidence and trust in your skills.

The Compete Well course for sports parents. It helps you communicate with your young athlete in a way that lets them enjoy sport and perform freely, without expectation, pressure or worry. The first module opens with a support checklist, then takes you through six lessons for sports parents; the second covers game day, from your pre-game behaviour to post-game tips for boosting confidence.

A course in the Compete Well series for coaches, mental coaches and their teams. Three modules carry seven teamwork lessons, completed in order with the team: what makes a great team, each player's place and mission, and roles and positive communication. Every lesson opens with a quote and a warm-up discussion, then moves into exercises in small groups or as a whole team, with a worksheet for each athlete and a facilitator guide for the coach.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr Jim Loehr — 15 tools for cultivating championship character through daily practice. Integrity, resilience, accountability, emotional strength. Designed for athletes, coaches, and anyone who believes who you are matters as much as what you achieve.

Golf gives you time to think — sometimes too much. 82 tools cover every aspect of the mental game: focus, pre-shot routines, managing frustration, course strategy, confidence-building, recovering from bad shots. Designed for the unique demands of the game — long pauses, precision, self-reliance.

Running is just you, the road, and your thoughts. 69 tools across 16 weeks cover every mental skill a runner needs — building confidence, managing race-day nerves, staying focused during long runs, bouncing back from setbacks. Designed to fit into your training, not replace it.

The performance-science companion to RunWell4Life — 101 interactive tools across 9 modules. Calculators, planners, McMillan-calibrated training plans, race strategies (including SA-specific Comrades and Two Oceans tools), fuelling and recovery protocols, injury-risk monitors. Optional Strava sync for zero-touch logging.

A comprehensive, evidence-based walking programme that covers the full journey from first steps to fitness walking, hiking, Nordic walking, event walking and multi-day trekking. Eleven modules take in technique, walking science, eating well, pain and recovery, feet, strength and balance, the walking mind, and walking after sixty, at a desk and as a family. It draws on the book Walk by Dr Courtney Conley and Dr Milica McDowell and on the work of Daniel Lieberman, Shane O'Mara, Katy Bowman, Esther Gokhale and others, and it stands alone or pairs with RunWell4Life for those who choose to run.

The foundation of the WalkWell4Life system in four modules: start walking and make it stick, take your baselines (pace, heart-rate zones, steps, cadence and the six-minute walk test), learn good technique, and build walking into ordinary days with a plan, a log, walks after meals and at work, and company to walk with.

For walkers with a goal. Walking plans from a first 5K to a full marathon, a South African hiking progression and trail calendar, multi-day and overseas hikes, pacing, weighted walking and charity walks; training for the distance with hills, Nordic poles, Zone 2, breathing and sleep; strong feet, calves and balance with power walks; and eating well for a walking life.

Walking for health, honestly. What the evidence shows for the heart, brain, blood sugar, bone, weight, longevity and blood pressure, and where walking helps but is not enough on its own; eating well; walking with pain and recovering well; the walking mind; and walking after sixty, at a desk, with interval walks for blood sugar and blood pressure, and as a family.

Walking for the years after sixty: why it matters more now and the programme level that fits you, steady feet, strong calves and good balance with power walks, walking with aches and pains, walking for heart, brain, bones and blood pressure including interval walking, and walking with a partner, a buddy, a group or the grandchildren.

SportSmart4Life turns you into a knowledgeable spectator: the laws, the positions, the tactics, the skills and the officiating of each sport, with a SpectatorIQ score that grows as you learn. More than a hundred sports, each in its own module.

Your free taste of SportSmart4Life: the Watch-Ready crash course for every sport, so you can try the experience before choosing the sports you love.

Most of what we hear about exercise is about weight, fitness and willpower. A companion to Kelly McGonigal's The Joy of Movement, this course is about something else: why moving can feel good, how it connects people, and how it builds hope and courage. A walk, a wheel around the block, a dance in your kitchen or a stretch on the stoep all count, as far as you are able.