Your Next Move: Psychological Fitness Programme
Psychological fitness for what happens next.
Psychological fitness for what happens next.
Young people in alternative provision are often given plenty of opportunities to talk about behaviour.
Your Next Move starts somewhere different.
This eight-session taught programme gives young people aged 14–16 protected time to learn, practise and apply the psychological skills that help them navigate pressure, setbacks, conflict, uncertainty and everyday life.
Designed for Pupil Referral Units, alternative provision and targeted secondary settings, each 50–60 minute session combines conversation, realistic scenarios, practical skill-building and personal reflection. The programme begins with the young person rather than the incident.
Across eight sessions, young people build greater awareness of themselves and what happens under pressure, develop practical skills they can test and use, and learn to recognise that there may be more than one possible response or pathway forward.
Lessons
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YOUR NEXT MOVE: More Than A Moment
Who am I when things are going well — and what happens to that person under pressure?
Your Next Move: Whats happening inside me
How do I know when something is starting to build?
Your Next Move: THE STORY IN MY HEAD
Is what I’m thinking definitely what happened?
Your Next Move: BEFORE I REACT
How much do we actually hear when we’re already preparing our response?
Your Next Move: FIND YOUR RESET
What actually helps when things start to build?
Your Next Move: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
How does one moment become a much bigger situation?
Your Next Move: TWO ROADS
If the same difficult situation happened again, what else might be possible?
Your Next Move: MY NEXT MOVE
What do I want to move towards — not just away from?
About the organisation
Bounce Forward
Bounce Forward is the UK’s psychological-fitness charity.
We help children and young people — and the adults and environments around them — develop the understanding, skills and shared language to regulate, recover and adapt through challenge, change and everyday life.
Our work brings together mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, shifting the focus upstream: building capability before crisis, rather than waiting for something to go wrong. We translate evidence from psychology, resilience research, cognitive behavioural approaches and positive psychology into practical learning that can be taught, modelled and used in real life.
From evidence-informed curricula and staff development to family support and whole-community approaches, our work recognises that young people do not develop in isolation. What happens around a young person shapes what becomes possible within them.
Everything we create is practical, grounded in evidence and designed to build something that lasts — psychologically fit people and communities, better prepared to meet life.