Every child deserves a heart that feels safe, seen and brave.
HeartWise is a whole-child system of books, classroom curricula and everyday tools that helps families, teachers and schools grow emotional intelligence, from age 1 to sixteen.
HeartWise is for everyone who shapes a child
Choose your path. Each one leads to the right books, tools and next steps.
Families
Raise kind, calm and confident children, from the first thousand days to the teenage years.
For parentsTeachers
A complete scheme of work for every age band, with guides, workbooks and weekly lessons.
For classroomsSchools
Build a whole-school culture of kindness with a shared language and a clear framework.
For leadersInstitutes and organisations
Training partners and workplaces that want wellbeing at the centre of how people learn and work.
For partnersFeel. Care. Try. Grow.
Four simple moves, repeated every week, across every age. Children learn to understand what is going on inside, to care for others, to practise new skills and to keep growing.
Feel
Notice and name what is happening inside.
Care
Understand others and look after each other.
Try
Practise one small skill at a time.
Grow
Build confidence that lasts.
A path that grows with the child
One system, five bands. Every curriculum has a matching guide, so a school can walk the whole way, year after year.
Six Pillars. One shared language.
Every theme, lesson and outcome maps back to one of the Six Pillars, so what a toddler learns at home and what a teenager practises in class belong to the same story.
- The Five Feelings: happy, sad, angry, scared, tired
- Three Zones: green, yellow and red. All zones are okay.
- L.A.N.T.E.R.N.: seven steps through a big feeling
Self-Awareness
What is going on inside me?
Self-Regulation
What do I do with a big feeling?
Growth Mindset
What if I can’t… yet?
Empathy & Connection
What is it like to be you?
Relationships & Repair
How do we mend what breaks?
Resilience & Purpose
What keeps me standing, and what is it for?
Find your heart’s direction
A warm reflection of a few minutes for families, teachers, school leaders and workplaces. Watch your garden bloom, then take one small next step.
Thirty-four titles, one family
Curricula, guides, workbooks and books for parents, teachers, school leaders and organisations, plus storybooks, journals and parenting stories. Every title has a free sample.
Go further, together
Culture is built by every adult in the room. Start with a check-up, train your people, and grow towards HeartWise Certified.
The Culture Check-up
Answer sixteen statements about how your people talk, support each other and repair. Get a plan of the HeartWise training you need.
Take the check-up
HeartWise Camps
Adults go first. Camps for teachers and for organisations, where the whole team practises the HeartWise way together.
Explore the camps
HeartWise Certified
A school or workplace that lives the Six Pillars, trains every adult and is reviewed. Register your interest.
See how it worksRead the first pages of every book
Up to ten pages of every title: the cover, the contents and the beginning of the first chapter. Tell us who you are and download any of them.
Free
sample
Today’s HeartWise
One real line from the HeartWise books and one small thing to try today. Come back tomorrow for the next, or share today’s with someone.
Put HeartWise on your wall
Five posters for families, teachers, school leaders or workplaces. One HeartWise idea on each, in real HeartWise words, with one small thing to try today. Download them free.
Tools you can use today
Free, quick and gentle. They work on any phone, tablet or classroom screen, and nothing you do is sent anywhere.
Feelings check-in
A calm way for a child or a whole class to name how they feel, in the three Zones.
Open the check-in
36-week planner
Pick an age band and see the whole school year, week by week. Tick weeks off as you go.
Plan my year
Book finder
Answer three quick questions and get the HeartWise books that fit you best.
Find my books
Yasmin Mubarak
Yasmin Mubarak is a father of two daughters, and everything he builds begins with them. Trained in psychology and educational psychology, with more than twenty years of experience, he founded Modern Learning Studio and the Finnish preschool in Colombo, works with universities and early childhood partners in Finland, has visited more than five hundred schools across the world, and was selected to join the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in 2024.
He believes a child’s heart is where learning begins.
Read the storyBring HeartWise to your school
Tell us about your school or institute. We will help you choose the right books for each year group and plan a first term.
Heart Superpowers
Empathy, mindfulness, a growth mindset, gratitude and more. Activities for every age from one to sixteen, games to play, flashcards and worksheets. Free for teachers, families and children.