For years Kazoo has been working with master of wellbeing and leadership guru, Elizabeth Lovius.

She’s coached individual team members on how to improve their outlook and worked with the whole agency on reaching our collective potential as well as helping develop the agency leadership values with our senior leadership team. So, it was only right that 2018 was the year that we gave back to her. 

On a mission to take her revolutionary approach to wellbeing, Resilient Young Minds, to the next level, we quickly jumped on board to help get the message far and wide.

What is Resilient Young Minds?

The idea behind the programme, aimed at young people under 25 could not be simpler. It’s a personal perception change on the most basic level. Instead of looking in the mirror and thinking ‘What’s WRONG with me?’, you flip it and ask, ‘What’s RIGHT with me?’.

Elizabeth has spent years teaching this positive mind-management, working with adults and teenagers around the UK to teach them a different way of thinking about themselves, and there’s still lots more work to do.

How did Kazoo support?

We got stuck in straight away planning how we can bring this revolutionary new thinking to the attention of the media.

Firstly, we invited the National Student to the Resilient Young Minds seminar in Devon. Together we experienced the programme first hand, speaking to a number of people who worked with Elizabeth’s team and directly benefitted from the programme.

One of the people who had benefitted from Elizabeth’s work was professional rugby player Grayson Hart who spoke at length about his personal journey of how the work he did with Elizabeth has changed his life for the better. 

The National Student published multiple articles about the ‘Resilient Young Minds’ movement, complete with some great quotes from Grayson and first-hand endorsement of Elizabeth’s work.

Read more about Grayson’s story here: http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Sport/2018-12-17/mentalhealth_rugby_player_grayson_hart_on_how_we_can_tackle_mental_health_issues_in_sport.html

We were also given the opportunity to attend the graduation from the Resilient Young Minds programme of a group of 14-year-olds from South London who had had experience of knife crime, bullying and violence. The programme helped them discover that there are other routes to helping them define themselves positively.  It was a real honour to help these children with the presentation skills ahead of their graduation and to hear the significant impact Resilient Youngs Minds is having.  

We hope to see many more lives transformed as a result of Elizabeth’s work in the future and look forward to helping her spread attention for her work with that all important yet so simple question – what’s right with me.