School Happiness

School

Do you want a happier school? Explore our school happiness tools, and reach out if you would like your school to be involved.

Creating Confidence for Happier Youth

Our Happiness for Schools program helps instil confidence, self-esteem, and resilience in students – this is particularly important for teenagers.

Confidence helps teenagers make safe, informed decisions and avoid people and situations that aren’t right for them.

Resilience will help them bounce back from difficult experiences and leads to more confidence. When a Youth is confident, they’re more likely to be assertive, positive, engaged, enthusiastic and persistent – a positive cycle, for happier Youth.

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Creating Confidence for Happier Youth

Our Happiness for Schools program helps instil confidence, self-esteem, and resilience in students – this is particularly important for teenagers.

Confidence helps teenagers make safe, informed decisions and avoid people and situations that aren’t right for them.

Resilience will help them bounce back from difficult experiences and leads to more confidence. When a Youth is confident, they’re more likely to be assertive, positive, engaged, enthusiastic and persistent – a positive cycle, for happier Youth.

HAPPIER STUDENTS AND TEACHERS FOR A HAPPIER SCHOOL

Attempted suicide rates are increasing year on year, and feelings of isolation and loneliness are reaching a breaking point. Heavy stuff, right? With minimal improvement in sight and what seems like more unhappiness than ever before, kindness and care is something the world is in desperate need of. That’s why School Happiness is needed and needed now!

School Happiness is a solution-based model, built to impact and inspire change in young people’s lives. We’re working with schools through in-person programs to talk through the tools and practices to build happier students and teachers, for a happier school.

What we’re here to do is complicated, but also beautifully simple; Inspire more people to change more lives, because we can’t do this alone. We believe it’s everyone’s responsibility to make someone else’s life better and that life does not get better by chance, only by planned, purposeful change.

We’re here to work with you, your budget, and your needs, with subsidised programs available for schools, regardless of your own funding.

HAPPY TOOLS
foR SCHOOL

Collaboration

Effective team strategising

Team bonding and connection

Leadership

Happiness, Friendship
& Bullying

Contribution to
community/a cause

HAPPY SCHOOL

TESTIMONIALS FOR

BRAYDEN AINSWORTH

Happiness Co is about finding the kind of fulfilment that makes you want to
bring your best to everything you do.

Armanda Di Toro (Northlake Senior Campus) - Year 11 Coordinator

Brayden was engaging from the very beginning. Our students come from all walks of life, from all cultures, some come to us very disengaged and having suffered trauma backgrounds. Yet, with all that diversity, they all walked out of our Auditorium affected by Brayden’s workshop and feeling his words. Some even ‘stormed’ the stage wanting to meet him! Sometimes lived experience talks can be triggers for students but Brayden delivered his truth in an accessible way which provided food for thought to all who attended, staff included. We are grateful to Happiness Co and the RAC for providing such a service and will definitely have Brayden back.

Reece Griffiths | Operations Officer Esperance Clontarf Academy Nulsen Clontarf Academy

Brayden was excellent in delivering a relevant session to our Year 10 Health Education Students. He really had them thinking and I'm sure they took some real learnings from him with regard to mental health, peer pressure and values. Brayden was very professional and effective as he spoke to the students as a peer. He interacted well with them and was genuine. Great presentation from a young person that the students could easily identify with

Anna - Stars Foundation

With the Stars girls, the session at school was also awesome conversation starter. The girls engaged well and really concentrated on their answers. We have had a rough time last year with our students and having them listen to inspiring stories and gain tools to overcome negative thoughts really helps. The girls enjoyed participating and continued conversations after. The worksheets really helped even with some students who don’t like completing them. They were easy to follow and adaptable for all ages. Thanks for your time and opening up to our students it’s always awesome to see ex-students come back and share their journeys.

Natasha Trandos (Trinity College) - Humanities Teacher

Brayden was an incredibly engaging speaker and really reached out to the students. After having many chats with my students after the presentation, it was clear that they were chatting about all that was discussed and many were surprised that they liked it as much as they did. Brayden was authentic and resonated with so many of the students that it was hard not to be captivated. I love all things social, emotional and well-being so I found this seminar just as useful as the students!

Wendy (John Curtain College Arts)

Brayden attended our campus to deliver a workshop on self-esteem, authenticity and the impact this can have on making positive choices. He delivered 3 workshops to different classes throughout the day and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive from both students and teachers. He was engaging and related well to all of the students, motivating them to get involved in the activities. The workshop was well-aligned with our curriculum and gave another perspective on an important topic for our students. I will be booking this incursion again for next year.

Craig Doyle St Hilda's

Brayden’s presentation to our Year 11 cohort was extremely well received. His relaxed and personable manner made for an engaging session where girls were able to consider his own personal story with informative activities designed to get them thinking about the challenges of entering Year 12. The presentation allowed for personal reflection and provided opportunities to plan for the future. The feedback from our girls was overwhelmingly positive and we will no doubt be having Brayden return next year.