The Olive Project

OLIVE PROJECTS

Olive Projects are aspirational and empowering learner SMART educational initiatives, designed and delivered to stimulate learning, enjoyment, positive action and personal change; 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, self- esteem, coping, pro-social skills development and self-confidence. These strengths and virtues are among the reputed significant characteristics that enable individuals and communities to thrive, and foster active and responsible citizenship.

Safe 'n' Sound

Safe 'n' Sound is a stimulating, challenged-based, pro-social skills project that nurtures social, emotional and cognitive skills, positive behaviours and healthy habits of the mind, in children between the ages of 8-11. Safe & Sound uses a range of interactive, multi-sensory, teaching and learning methods to encourage children's psychological, physical, social and intellectual development and emotional health.

Be Your Best

Be Your Best is a life skills education project that coaches youth between the ages of 12-19 in the principles and practices of emotional health, resilience and achievement. Be Your Best helps young people to 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

Tips from the Top is a personal development project that draws on the increasing body of knowledge of the characteristics of achievement, emotional health and resilience. 'Tips from the Top' explores the core principles and beliefs, the habits of the mind and the behaviours that underpin our optimum living education philosophy.

Parent Talk: Nurturing Children's Emotional Health and Resilience

Parent Talk uses psycho-educational, solutions orientated discourse between parents to support the positive influence that parents can have on the psychological health and emotional well-being and futures of their children.

Youth Talk: Skills for Life and Health

Youth Talk explores with young people between the ages of 13-19 the social, emotional and cognitive skills involved in negotiating effectively the salient tasks and the common person-environment transactions and transitions of childhood and adolescence. Youth Talk is the companion resource of Parent Talk: Nurturing Children's Emotional Health Resilience.

Family Talk: Together We Can

Family Talk explores with family groups (children and their parents) the core values, skills, beliefs and behaviours involved

in healthy and productive parent-child transactions and interactions within the home. Through a unique combination of light-hearted humour and concern, Family Talk sensitively handles the emotional health and well-being issues of family life and health.

Hope

Hope is an intensive, life skills education project that coaches individual adults in the basic principles and practices of resilience and personal life change. Hope helps individuals achieve good outcomes despite difficult circumstances by helping them discover and utilise their personal power to generate pathways towards their goals.

Nurture

Nurture is an empowering, self-help, 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

Go 4 It is an enterprise education project whose purpose is to encourage enterprising 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