I will help you and/or your people to build new habits by guiding them  through our simple three step coaching cycle:

1. Learn (more) about how your brain works. Use our proprietary self-knowledge tools to analyse your current habits, and identify the unhelpful thinking and behaviours that are stopping you fulfilling your potential.

2. Use Tougher Minds insights to learn the knowledge and skills that will allow you to build your new resilience, performance and leadership habits.

3. Build new helpful habits, using our proprietary insights and tools. Including our S.W.A.P.® Cycle, T.R.A.I.T.® Habit model, 9 Action Factors system and Me Power Well-being Performance Planner.

"On opening his results, he said straight away 'There's no way I would have got these without working with Mr Foster."

Teacher with responsibility for GCSE Year Group

“Whenever I would talk to my son about homework, revision and exams, he'd say 'In a bit', and then go on his computer, or go out. But now he comes home from school and he wants to crack on with it. And I can't believe it's the same boy.”

- Parent of a 15 year old boy sitting GCSEs.

- GCSE pupil

- Mother of an 11 year old girl

- GCSE pupil

“I started learning these techniques in Year 11, and now I'm in medical school. And I don't know if I would be here without them.”

- Medical student

First you will learn how to help your children understand how their brains work. Then using our proprietary self-knowledge tools you will help them to analyse their current habits, and identify the unhelpful thinking and behaviours that are stopping them fulfilling their potential. The types of habits (vital habits) young people typically need to strengthen and improve to be at their best more often are connected to the following: improving diet, exercise and sleep for better brain performance; better stress management; spending less time thinking unhelpful thoughts; performing well under pressure; being productive; building and maintaining robust levels of confidence; better concentration, learning, revision and exam performance.

You will learn how to help your children acquire the knowledge and skills they need to build and strengthen their vital habits. You will use proprietary Me Power®  insights to teach your children simple and practical skills to build new resilience, well-being and performance habits.

You will learn how to help your children build new helpful habits, using our proprietary insights and tools. These include our S.W.A.P.® Cycle, T.R.A.I.T.® Habit model, 9 Action Factors (learn more below) system and Well-being and Performance Planner. This will make it easier for your pupils to fulfil their potential, and your school to succeed and thrive.

Why do people do what they do - adults and children?

Providing effective answers to the above questions is not easy. Most efforts to create change are unsuccessful.

To help our clients achieve successful and sustainable change we have created our proprietary 9 Action Factors model.

There are more than 200 rules that underpin the model. They make it easier for your children to activate all 9 Action Factors and build sustainable new habits. This means we help you create the desired behaviour changes that make it easier for your family to achieve their goals.

Here is an overview of the 9 core areas: 

1) Mindset

2) Habit Factor

3) Brain State Optimisation

4) Personal Motivation 

5) Personal Knowledge and Skills

6) Community Knowledge and Skills

7) Social Influence

8) Rewards and Penalties

9) Environmental and Digital External Triggers

Tougher Minds - Awarding-winning solution for Well-being, Performance, Transformational Leadership and Successful Change Management.

Andrew Foster will teach you uniquely powerful simple and practical skills that empower you and your family to succeed in life and work. These are based on the best neuroscience, behavioural science, psychology and the award-winning Tougher Minds’ programmes, which help tens of thousands of people. 

Andrew Foster began teaching in 2003, and has worked in schools in both the state and independent sectors, in the UK and overseas.

As Head of History at Colfe’s School in London, he led the department to the best examination results achieved in any subject area in the school, in any year. Appointed first Head of GCSE, and then Academic Performance, he has been the lead teacher on the Tougher Minds at Colfe’s programme, winning the Independent Schools Award for Education Initiative of the Year.

He has participated in major education consultations at the invitation of the think-tank Demos and presented to the annual TeachFirst conference, as well as writing for TES.

Tougher Minds’ programmes are used by major businesses and organisations in the U.K., Europe and the U.S., they have helped tens of thousands of people.

Tougher Minds have advised the Government and think tanks, had their work featured in The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, People Management and T.E.S, and published peer-reviewed papers.

Click on this link to see a range of case studies showing how our simple and practical award-winning training has made it easier for individuals, leaders, teams and organisations to fulfil their potential.