The Olive Project

OLIVE PROJECTS

Olive Projects are empowering learner SMART talks, courses, workshops, seminars and conferences, designed and delivered to stimulate learning, enjoyment, positive action and personal change. Olive Projects seek to awaken affection; to nurture emotional resilience, optimism, future-mindedness and hope; to foster healthy views about life, about self and about others; to encourage meaningful engagement and contribution to the greater good; to develop and support self-awareness, positive coping, pro-social skills development and self-confidence. These personal, positive psychological characteristics are considered significant in securing better life chances, psychological health and emotional wellbeing and active and responsible citizenship.

Safe and Sound: PSHCE Skills [8-10]

Safe and Sound is a stimulating, pro-social skills development training programme that fosters positive behaviours and healthy habits of thinking and relating in children aged 8-10. The Project uses a range of interactive teaching and learning methods to encourage children's psychological, emotional, social, physical and intellectual development and health.

Be Your Best: Youth Development Coaching

Be Your Best is a youth development coaching programme that provides 1-1 coaching to youth between the ages of 12-17 in the principles and practices of emotional health, resilience and achievement. Be Your Best helps young people develop their present ability, quality of life and vision of their future and is premised on the belief that the potential of youth is realised and maximised through an adult supported process of learning and change.

Tips from the Top: Personal Development Education

Tips from the Top explores the principles and beliefs, habits of thinking and living and the models, tools, approaches and techniques that underpin our optimum living education philosophy. The resource draws on evidence-supported knowledge of the characteristics of sucess, achievement, psychological health and emotional resilience and personal effectiveness.

Parent Talk: Nurturing Children's Emotional Health and Resilience

Parent Talk uses solutions orientated discourse between parents to support parents in having a positive influence on the psychological health and emotional resilience and futures of their children. Parent Talk helps parents to support their children with the salient tasks and the common transactions and transitions of childhood and adolescence.

Youth Talk: PSHCE Skills [11-17]

Youth Talk is a skills for life and health programme that introduces young people to the social, emotional and cognitive skills involved in effectively navigating their social world. Youth Talk explores the skills to successfully negotiate the salient tasks and the common person-environment transactions and transitions of childhood and adolescence.

Family Talk: Fostering Family Life and Health

Family Talk explores with family groups the prosocial behaviours involved in healthy and productive parent-child transactions and interactions within home and family. Family Talk uses educational games and discussion to explore family dynamics, to foster family life and health and improve outcomes for children.

Hope: Resilience Education

Hope is an intensive, strengths-based, resilence education project that trains and coaches small groups and individuals in the basic principles and practices of resilience and personal life change. Hope introduces individuals to the skills, processes and behaviours required to achieve good outcomes despite limited life chances and adverse circumstances by helping them discover and utilise their personal power to generate pathways towards their goals.

Nurture: Fostering Emotional Health

Nurture is an empowering, human givens health promotion project that puts optimum physical, emotional and mental health into the hands of the individual. Nurture helps individuals to better understand the workings of the human body and mind and to make simple lifestyle changes that support optimum physical, emotional and mental health.

Go 4 It: Enterprise Education

Go 4 It is an enterprise education project whose purpose is to encourage enterprising thoughts and behaviours in young people and adults. Go 4 It will especially appeal to people who wish to turn their good ideas into organised, intelligently directed plans of action towards a social purpose.

Bespoke Projects - Examples