FOR EDUCATORS
One shared language for big feelings
Young Mind Masters gives children ages 5–12 a calm, screen-free way to train mental fitness — noticing a pattern, naming it, and choosing what comes next. Like physical fitness, it's built through small, repeated reps — and the skills travel with them.
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● Screen-free & audio-first ● Ages 5–12, two tracks ● Grounded in peer-reviewed research
BUILT FOR HOW YOU TEACH
The same method,
shaped to your setting.
Thirty children in a classroom, one child at the kitchen table, or a child you meet one-to-one — the framework stays the same. Only the rhythm changes.
Classrooms
A short daily anchor and a weekly full lesson that fold into a morning circle. Mixed-age friendly, with tracks for 5–8 and 9–12.
● DAILY ANCHOR + WEEKLY LESSON
Homeschools
A self-contained daily ritual you can lead with no training and no screens. The audio carries the lesson, so you guide the conversation.
● ONE DAILY RITUAL
Therapy & counseling rooms
Externalized characters let a child name a pattern without it becoming who they are — language for sessions and for the work that continues at home.
● SESSION BY SESSION
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
The calmest person in the room teaches the most.
Children don’t learn to settle from instructions. They borrow it — from a nervous system that’s already steady. An adult who can stay grounded when the storm hits is the regulation a child learns from first. That’s co-regulation, and it’s one of the most well-established findings in how children’s self-regulation actually develops.
So before Young Mind Masters asks a child to find the Wizard, it helps you find yours.The teacher module gives you the same Notice · Name · Choose for your own hard moments: the noisy room, the afternoon that got away from you — so the calm you bring mid-storm is real, not performed.
You’re not running the method from the outside. You’re modelling it. And the same identity-safe framing holds for the grown-up: the storm is a visitor for you too. Naming your own pattern isn’t a confession — it’s the skill, demonstrated.
THE METHOD
Notice the feeling.
Name the pattern.
Choose what’s next.
Something happens—inside or around the child—and a feeling arrives. A familiar thought pattern may then add a story that intensifies it.
THE ENGINE ● Notice ● Name ● Choose
Notice
Tune in to the weather, inside and out.
01 Trigger
Something happens, and it isn’t always in the child’s control. The first drops fall — the real, first feeling lands.
02 Grumpy Storm
A visiting pattern blows in and adds its story. Thoughts, feelings, and body swirl at once — and the child learns to see it as a storm passing through, not who they are.
THOUGHTS
“I’m not good enough.”
FEELINGS
sad, angry, embarrassed
BODY
tight chest, hot face, racing heart
Name
Name it to see it clearly – I am not the storm.
03 Name the Pattern
The child gives the storm a name – "That's Worried Wovo visiting." Naming the pattern creates a little space between the child and the thought. It helps them see: this is something my mind is doing, not who I am. You can't step back from something you haven't named yet.
Inside the storm:
"I'm not good enough."
→
Named:
"That's Judgey Jovo visiting."
04 Wizard Pause
The child steps back and takes the Wizard's place – the one watching the storm, not caught inside it. Three small moves make the pause.
Notice
Name
Breath
Choose
Reach for a Wizard Power and choose a wise response.
05 Wizard Power
From that calm, the child reaches for a power the storm can’t reach.
Curiosity
What’s really true? What else could be?
Empathy
How might they feel? How can I be kind?
Courage
I can do the hard, right thing.
Creativity
What’s another way through?
Wisdom
What feels right, not just what’s easy?
06 Wise choice
The sky clears, and the next step is the child’s to choose — made on purpose, from a settled place.
The patterns are characters children meet — Judgey Jovo, Worried Wovo, Bossy Boza, Gloomy Glomo, and Bouncy Beb. They’re always framed as visitors who come and go, never as a voice inside the child or a label for who they are. The Wizard is the calm, noticing part every child already has.
See if we are a good matchWHAT CHANGES
The shift is in how a child talks about a hard moment.
BEFORE
“I’m bad at this and everyone’s looking at me.”
AFTER
“That’s Judgey Jovo visiting. I can pause and choose.”
WHY IT WORKS IN PRACTICE
Built for real rooms, real days.
Audio-first and screen-free
The lesson lives in sound, so children’s eyes and bodies stay free.
Low-prep for the adult
Press play and guide the conversation. Nothing to script, print, or rehearse.
Mixed-age friendly
Two tracks with a shared vocabulary, so a younger and older child use the same words.
One language that travels
When teacher, parent, and counselor name the same pattern, the skill becomes a habit.
A repeatable anchor ritual
Simple regulation tools — breathing techniques and later tactile anchors — that children can use anywhere, long after the lesson ends.
Identity-safe by design
Patterns are visitors, so a child can name a hard moment without it defining them.
IN THE EDUCATOR PACK
Everything you need to lead it well.
LEAD THE LESSON
Facilitator guide
Plain-language guidance for the daily anchor and weekly lesson, with notes on what each beat does for the child.
RUN IT DAY TO DAY
Scripts, both age tracks
Ready-to-use audio scripts for ages 5–8 and 9–12, sequenced so each week builds on the last.
SEE IT LAND
Practice log & resources
Live within a week. One staff training session — which we deliver — and you're running. No term-long rollout.
FRAMEWORK ALIGNMENT
Maps to the competencies your setting already works toward.
Every module is mapped to the five CASEL competencies: Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship skills and Responsible decisions making.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
YMM builds on the SEL foundation by making thought patterns visible.
EMOTION-LABELING TOOLS
“I feel angry.”
Naming the feeling is a real and useful start — but it can leave a child stuck inside it, treating the feeling as the whole truth of the moment.
YOUNG MIND MASTERS
“That's the Worry Wovo visiting — and I can pause.”
Children separate the real first feeling from the story a pattern adds, then step back far enough to choose. That step-back is the skill that carries into the rest of life.
Per-classroom and whole-school licensing · Training included · Live within a week
BEFORE YOU COMMIT
See if we're a good match.
Five quick questions. We'd rather you find out now than be disappointed later — so some answers will honestly point you elsewhere.
30-second qualifier
See if Young Mind Masters is right for you
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Notice
Name
Choose
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YEAR 1 — FOUNDATION
The whole school learns one language.
The first cycle: five patterns, the core tools, staff and children learning the same vocabulary at the same pace. By the end of the year, "spotting a Grumpy at the door" means the same thing in every classroom.
YEAR 2 — DEPTH
From vocabulary to reflex.
The second cycle deepens the work [adjust to what cycle two actually contains]. New intakes join the programme from Week 1, while returning year groups build on what they know — the language stops being a lesson and starts being school culture.
YEAR 3 AND BEYOND — CULTURE
It stops being a programme.
By the third year, no cohort remembers the school without it. Older children model the language for younger ones, staff use it in the corridor as naturally as in the lesson, and new teachers inherit it during induction rather than training.
Bring one calm language into your rooms.
Not sure yet? Take the five-question match-check. Ready to dig in? The educator pack has everything you need to share with your team.
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