My BodyMIND
Learn three emotional intelligence skills.
Ease anxiety and depression.
Reach your potential.
Want to ease anxiety and depression in your students and staff and boost their potential, in learning and in life?
More and more students are struggling with anxiety and depression.
Staff are overwhelmed by their increasing workload.
Parents are stressed about how to help their children with anxiety and depression.
Discover three evidence-based emotional intelligence skills and change the lives of your students and staff.
We all have negative thoughts.
Sometimes positive thinking, gratitude and mindfulness don't work.
Science shows us why we need to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
But we're afraid to go there!
My BodyMIND will show you, your students and staff how to accept and let go of negative thoughts and feelings with compassionate awareness, curiosity and play.
While most wellbeing programs focus on a cognitive approach, My BodyMIND draws upon the latest neuroscience on trauma and the body and teaches a life-saving skill, to feel safe with negative thoughts and feelings.
With intense feelings of anxiety, sadness and loneliness, and thoughts like 'I'm dumb', 'I'm not good enough' and 'I don't belong,' My BodyMIND provides a safe pathway with highly practical developmental-specific strategies for students, staff and families to accept and release their discomfort using the MEET. GREET. TREAT. model.
My BodyMIND supports the Victorian Curriculum's Personal and Social Capabilities, and is derived from evidence-based practice developing emotional safety through nervous system regulation and self-inquiry.
Learning three vital emotional intelligence skills reduces anxiety, depression and disengagement and increases connection, wellbeing and engagement.
The skills you learn alleviate pain sensitivities, particularly in neurodiverse students and they strengthen confidence and resilience to meet everyday triggers and challenges. My BodyMIND fosters emotional awareness for long-lasting mental health, anxiety and depression prevention and a love for learning.
Testimonials
“Learning to identify and welcome a difficult emotion within a specific part of my body as a helpful messenger rather than an enemy to be avoided was very useful for me and will be when having wellbeing chats with students.” - Carl Rusbridge, BLFO
This taught me to allow the feelings to arise and process. I wish I had have known this when I was going into my teens.
Deb Hall
After decades of countless appointments with psychologists which only seemed to reinforce my belief that there was something wrong with me, I have found these tools more effective and helpful than any other methods.
Amanda Goodfellow
The monster in my mind has gone.
Jackson, 8.
The results have been truly life changing, I use the tools daily. It is easy and accessible and my mental health and overall wellbeing continually improves because of it.
Joe Fitzgibbon
These strategies have transformed my life. Bronte has taught me how to be with my feelings and love all parts of myself - especially the yuck bits.
Johannah Ashley
The feeling's gone.
Ivy, 6.
It has given me the skills and courage to welcome in all of my feelings - even the painful and scary ones. This has and will continue to change my life for the better.
Kimberley Murphy
I am calmer about challenging situations knowing these tools.
Michael Turner
I feel calmer.
Lu, 12.
I cope with moments of sadness better. I don't suppress anymore.
Pam Gracie
I am calmer. My mind isn't crazy all the time.
Lisa Scicluna
I feel so strong and empowered.
G.W.
I feel better.
Dylan, 16.
I no longer feel as though there's something wrong with me.
Tonia Damore
This is the first thing I've found that I would consider a cure for anxiety.
L.S.
Using the tools is such an easy thing to do when difficult moments arise. It can diffuse situations quickly.
G.H.
This was really informative and gave me a new perspective. I like the emphasis on accepting all emotions and not shutting them down.
P.L.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LEARNING POTENTIAL
With a trauma-informed approach to wellbeing, walk away confident with tools for students to build emotional regulation and reduce anxiety and depression so they can reach their learning potential.
STAFF WELLBEING
STRENGTHEN YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Learn practical strategies to find and heal the root cause of workplace overwhelm through developing mental awareness and emotional intelligence, so you can boost staff morale and authentic leadership across the school.
PARENT WORKSHOP
EASING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND RAGE AT HOME
A groundbreaking workshop for parents who are worried about their child, curious about new research on mental health and looking for practical solutions to boost emotional regulation and prevent and ease their child's anxiety, depression and raging emotions.
Choose what you will help your school:
Initial Meeting to best meet the needs of your school
One-hour In-Person Professional Learning $400
In-Person Staff Wellbeing $300/hour
One-hour In-Person Parent Workshop $300
Digital copy of My BodyMIND Teacher Manual (FREE with Professional Learning)
Digital Wellbeing Course for Staff (FREE with Staff Wellbeing)
Digital copy of Process and Let Go Guide (FREE with Staff Wellbeing)
A1 Wellbeing posters (FREE with Professional Learning and Staff Wellbeing)
Before and after surveys to evaluate the effectiveness of My BodyMIND in your school community.
Want to book or learn more about My BodyMIND for your school or learning community?
About Bronte Spicer
Improving mental health in children, staff and families with three evidence-based emotional intelligence skills. Equipping students, staff and parents with the basic neuroscience and practical strategies to feel safe to sit with the full spectrum of their thoughts and feelings, for prevention of anxiety and depression across the lifespan.
It's my pleasure to bring wisdom from overcoming twenty-two years of depression, my professional career as a classroom and special education teacher, and further study in advanced mindfulness, trauma and nervous system resilience to My BodyMIND.
I'm the author of It's Okay to Cry, award-winner writer for Elephant Journal and host to my podcast It's Okay to Cry.
Testimonials
"Our school was really keen to tap into Bronte’s expertise as a way of offering support to our parent community on the topics of anxiety, raging emotions and depression – these are such a pertinent topics for so many families. The workshop provided some really valuable insights into the science behind these emotional challenges and the tools to support children that Bronte shared with the group were incredibly valuable. Thanks Bronte."
Brett Parkes
Spring Gully Primary School
"This showed me what's really going on under the surface of the students with anxiety and depression. I can see it's essential for students to go beyond basic mindfulness and emotional literacy for their mental health and with these techniques it's achievable for them."
Kerrieanne Hocking
Golden Square Primary School
"Bronte has taught me practical strategies that have brought immediate change to my students and classroom. She's also given me effective tools that have helped me and my family learn how to process their feelings in a healthy and helpful way."
Kylie Reavley
Green Hill Public School