One line from a HeartWise book, one small thing to try, and a card you can share. You see the same line all day, and a new one tomorrow.
Pillar 3 · Growth Mindset · The Seed
The nappy change, the goodbye, the tantrum, the song, the seed in the pot — these are the curriculum. Held with care, they grow a person.
From The HeartWise Early Years Curriculum · Yasmin Mubarak
Try todayPick one thing you cannot do yet. Say “yet” out loud, then try it once.
Every line comes from a HeartWise book, and each one has a Pillar. Open a book to read more of it, or choose a line to see it as a card.
Your child does not need a perfect parent. Your child needs a present, regulated, emotionally honest parent. Everything else follows from that.
HeartWise Parenting · Self-Regulation
A baby learns what feelings are from how their feelings are met. We are their first teachers of the inner world.
HeartWise Beginnings · Empathy & Connection
You are about to do something hard and ordinary and extraordinary, the way billions have before you. You can do this. You truly can.
You Were Never Meant to Know This · Growth Mindset
This is yours. Be honest. Messy handwriting and crossings-out are welcome.
Becoming a HeartWise Parent · Self-Awareness
We are not raising children to be successful. We are raising them to be whole.
The Foundation · Resilience & Purpose
Children will not remember everything you taught them. They will remember how you made them feel, and who you were when you were with them.
The HeartWise Teacher · Empathy & Connection
A child does not need to be fixed. A child needs to be seen — and then taught, by someone who stayed calm and stayed close.
The HeartWise Teacher Guidebook · Self-Regulation
I will not be a perfect teacher. I will be a present one — seeing each child, regulating myself first, and beginning again on the hard days.
The HeartWise Teacher’s Workbook · Self-Regulation
We are not only filling minds. We are helping to form human beings — ones who can feel, regulate, connect, repair, and keep going.
The HeartWise Curriculum Framework · Resilience & Purpose
In a HeartWise School, the entrance says one thing above all else: You belong here.
HeartWise School · Relationships & Repair
The work of knowing yourself and being kind to others is a lifetime’s work. It should begin the way a life begins — early, gently, and in good company.
The HeartWise Course Series · Self-Awareness
HeartWise is not about making work comfortable. It is about making work human.
HeartWise Workplace · Empathy & Connection
The nappy change, the goodbye, the tantrum, the song, the seed in the pot — these are the curriculum. Held with care, they grow a person.
The HeartWise Early Years Curriculum · Growth Mindset
You do not need to be perfect to do this well. You need to be present, warm, and willing to go first.
The Early Years Guidebook · Relationships & Repair
Thank you for the joyful, patient, world-shaping work of teaching the youngest children — heart first.
The HeartWise Preschool Curriculum · Resilience & Purpose
You are the first safe adult outside the home for every child in your classroom.
HeartWise Little Hearts · Relationships & Repair
There are no dry worksheets here; there is talk, story, drama, drawing, reflection and action.
The Growing Hearts Curriculum · Growth Mindset
This one is for you — the teacher of five-to-eight-year-olds, working in the years when children begin to notice themselves.
Growing Hearts · Self-Awareness
The fastest way to lose a pre-teen is to talk down to them. This curriculum addresses students as intelligent, capable young people with real inner lives and real choices.
The Strong Hearts Curriculum · Empathy & Connection
You are the steady adult in a year where steady adults matter.
HeartWise Strong Hearts · Self-Regulation
Teenagers learn best when they are respected as thinkers: when they discuss, debate, reflect privately, and apply ideas to their real lives, rather than being lectured.
The HeartWise Teenage Curriculum · Self-Awareness
After this they are gone — to university, to work, to adulthood, to other countries, to their own lives. What you give them here will travel with them.
HeartWise Brave Hearts · Resilience & Purpose
Pick your zone, then breathe along with a big, gentle heart for one or three minutes.
Breathe together
Name how you feel in the three Zones. All zones are okay.
Open the check-in
A few minutes of gentle reflection and one small next step.
Start the CompassOne skill of the heart each week, with a question to talk about, a kind thing to say and an activity to try every day.
Each week HeartWise features one superpower of the heart. See all 19 Heart Superpowers.
