Developing Hope, Efficacy, Resilience & Optimism for Academic Success
Evidence-based psychological resource intervention for Extended Curriculum Programme students
Developing waypower (pathways to goals) and willpower (mental energy) to pursue meaningful objectives with confidence.
Building belief in your ability to succeed in specific situations and overcome academic challenges.
Learning to bounce back better from setbacks and develop effective coping strategies for academic stress.
Cultivating positive future outlook and constructive interpretations of academic challenges and opportunities.
Plus Growth Mindset and Grit development for comprehensive psychological resource building
Action Themes: Feeling You Belong, Enhance Wellness & Wellbeing
Key Activities: "Feeling You Belong" writing exercises, Six dimensions of wellness reflection, PERMA-V assessment
Action Theme: Grow Your Grit
Key Activities: Grit Self-assessment, "Meet Me in Ten Years" future visioning, "Wheel of Life Reflection"
Action Theme: Cultivate a Growth Mindset
Key Activities: Mindset assessment, "Growth Mindset Continuum" reflection, 20 Guidelines to Developing a Growth Mindset
Action Theme: Believe in Yourself
Key Activities: Self-efficacy Scale, "Keep a Victory Log," Confidence-building exercises
Action Theme: Increase Your Resilience
Key Activities: "Finding Silver Linings" reframing, "The Resilience Plan (4 S's)," Resilience assessment
Action Themes: Hope, Be Optimistic
Key Activities: "Nurture Your Hope" worksheet, Optimism exercises, Hope assessment
Three-year mixed-methods evaluation across Engineering ECP cohorts (2021-2024)
Engineering students participated in comprehensive evaluation
Evaluation methodologies: Pre-post assessment, benefit analysis, thematic testimonials
Wellbeing and psychological resource measures assessed
Growth mindset improvements across all cohorts (p<0.001-0.005)
Strong convergence across methodologies on mindset transformation, enhanced self-awareness, personal growth, and improved resilience and coping.
The 2024 cohort demonstrated the most comprehensive improvements across all evaluation approaches, showing program maturation and refinement.
Significant improvements in Optimism, Happiness, Connectedness, and Perseverance across cohorts.
Improvements across multiple Harvard Flourishing dimensions including Life Satisfaction, Physical & Mental Health, and Relationships.
Consistent positive impact on overall wellness behaviors and practices across all six wellness dimensions.
High reporting rates for personal growth (75.8-88.9%), self-awareness (72.7-85.2%), and improved mindset (36.4-70.4%).
Access the course through the i-FlourishWell4Life platform
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Our research-validated course has demonstrated significant impact across multiple wellbeing dimensions. Other higher education institutions interested in implementing the Grow a Gritty HERO's Mindset course are invited to reach out to explore partnership opportunities.
Implementation is subject to certain conditions, including train-the-trainer education and using our platform under licence to ensure program fidelity and effectiveness.
• Comprehensive train-the-trainer program
• Licensed access to i-FlourishWell4Life platform
• Implementation guidance and ongoing support
• Access to validated assessment frameworks