You can't expect to master your tennis serve the first time you practise it, and the same goes for the skills you're about to learn — and learn to implement — in this book.

This is why everything you're about to read has been designed for you to add to your own practical toolkit: one that you can keep drawing on over time. Within these pages, you'll find activities, games and ideas that you can adopt and experiment with in the classroom, across your whole school and also, importantly, at home. There are plenty of real case stories to show you how others have done the same. You'll even pick up some things you can adapt and practise in your workplace!

My suggestion for working through this book is to keep it simple and achievable. You don't need to wait until everything is perfect to start your wellbeing practice. Simply add to what you're already doing in the classroom and across your school, and expand from there.

Ideas are great, but they mean nothing without execution. So, I encourage you to choose a couple of things that resonate with you as you read, and start to action them immediately.

As you're about to see, positive education means we need to all be working together. Our future, and the future health of our next generation, depend on it.

It's also a good idea to share what you learn from this book with others, perhaps in a dedicated staff meeting, so you can start to work out ways to implement the bigger and more consistent concepts together.

You can download my free Resource Pack of all the games and activities in this book — and much more — from book.growingwithgratitude.com.au.

Keep this Resource Pack handy to draw on whenever you need — for example, when you have a spare few minutes to throw in a game before class ends or lunch begins.

Let's get into it!