About & approach
Why we do this, how we do it, what it's built on, and who delivers it: the four things worth knowing about how Toolbox works.
Mental health skills are usually only taught after something's gone wrong, once a problem already has a name.
We think that's backwards. The same tools a psychologist would teach you should be available before they're needed: taught early, taught often, and in a way that actually sticks.
Taught before a crisis, not after
Taught early and often, until it sticks
Every facilitator is a psychology student: relatable for your students, real experience for theirs.
Studying at university
Delivering workshops in schools
Practising at Toolbox Clinic
A single workshop can start a habit, but it can't sustain one alone. That's why we work with the adults around every student too.
Mirrored workshops for the adults around every student, so the whole school community uses the same language.
When a student needs more than a workshop, your wellbeing team can refer directly into Toolbox Clinic.
Eight ready-to-run activity guides per workshop keep the skill alive well after the facilitator leaves the room.
Every workshop comes with a term's worth of follow-up activities, built to slot into however much time you've got, from a spare five minutes to a full lesson.
Drop into the start of any class. No prep needed.
"Name That Feeling"
Guided activities that reinforce one skill at a time.
"Thought Court"
Ready-to-run plans for pastoral or wellbeing periods.
"Building My Toolkit"
8 ready-to-run activity guides per workshop. Mix and match across the term as it suits your timetable.
Check in and name the feeling that's loudest right now.
Weigh the evidence on a thought that's been bothering you.
Short worksheets staff hand out from the guide, part of the term's 8-guide set for each workshop.
Grounded in CBT, DBT and ACT: practical, interactive and fun, not group therapy.
Cognitive behavioural therapy: spotting and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns.
Dialectical behaviour therapy: managing intense emotions and building distress tolerance.
Acceptance and commitment therapy: building psychological flexibility and values-driven action.