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Youth Mental Health Experts

Preventing Problems, Promoting Potential

Welcome to
Motus Learning

Welcome to Motus Learning

We are progressive psychologists who believe that every child has a right to be educated on how to take care of their mental health. Through our interactive evidence based ‘7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence’ program, we educate children, parents, teachers and corporates about how to take care of their mental health and cultivate a pro-social mental health environment.

Everything taught is research driven and individually tailored for children and adults to understand. Schools and organisations working with Motus Learning have dramatically raised the education bar by not only preventing future mental health problems but also promoting everyone’s potential. Join the Motus Movement!

In association with

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The ACT Campaign

The ACT Campaign is a campaign that is pushing for mental health education to become mandatory in the educational curriculum in Ireland. Alongside more communication between health and educational services, more priority on mental health of teachers and mental health leads in schools. 

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Primary School

Primary School

Our most popular program. Fun, evidence based and life changing!
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Post Primary School

Post Primary School

Psychological principles to help children deal with the ever changing landscape of secondary school.
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1 on 1

1 on 1

Individually tailored to children to ensure 100% understanding of essential education to maintain positive mental health.
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Corporate

Corporate

Ensuring employees know how to get the most out of their own life, as individuals and parents.
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Our Associations

We work alongside the following organisations:

We are currently working alongside the University of Limerick Psychology department to understand how the 7 Steps program benefits stress tolerance as children transition into secondary school.

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The UCC School of Applied Psychology carried out a service evaluation in 2019 and we continue to receive consultation from several  of their psychology professors.

Recent research has found that our gut health and microbiota have a direct effect on our mental health. We ensured the highest quality of education on the topic of mood foods via consultation with registered dietician Paula Mee.

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Sleep is an essential part of maintaining positive mental health. We have had consultation alongside Breege Leddy, who is the former head of sleep at the Maher Private Hospital, founder of the private sleep clinic ‘The Insomnia Clinic’ and one of the leading sleep experts in the country. 

Children can’t have positive mental health without looking after their physical health also. Exercise is an essential way to help balance this. To ensure the correct exercise education is being provided, we work alongside exercise science qualified Bluezone Fitness.

Research

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At Motus, making sure our program is scientifically proven is essential. 

Alongside UCC, our research demonstrated that our program statistically improves beneficial emotion regulation strategies, emotional intelligence and well-being.

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Testimonials

Principal

’Fantastic program! Very hands on active learning approach to learning key skills about emotions. It had lots of group work and catered to all abilities.’
St Joseph’s Girls National School, Clonakilty
’I am 20 years teaching and this is by far the most engaging and beneficial workshop that I’ve had in my class.’
Ballybunion National School
’Excellent presentation. The children were engaged and made an instant connection with the presenters. They learned a huge amount and would 100% recommend this workshop to other schools.’
Caherline National School, Caherconlish
’The workshop was delivered dynamically and very efficiently. The facilitators built a good rapport with the children and was very effective at passing on knowledge.’
Corpus Christi National School, Moyross
’The interactive workshop helped the children and understand. As the facilitators went from group to group, more children engaged, it kept them focused on the task and it made sure they understood. Thank you for a brilliant few days and we look forward to working with you again.’
Carysfort National School, Blackrock
‘The workshop was excellent. It couldn’t be faulted.’
Piltown National School, Kilkenny
‘Overall, the kids really benefitted from the workshop. They seemed to understand and apply the knowledge on emotional intelligence, which will be beneficial to the children in secondary school.’
Scoil Cholmcille, Donaghmeade
‘The facilitators were great with the children and everything was well prepared. There was a nice mixture of games and activities.’
St Joseph’s National School, Fermoy
‘It was all fantastic but I think the role plays and dramas were excellent to get the children thinking, feeling and experiencing a range of emotions and points of view.’
Araglin National School, Kilworth
‘I would highly recommend the workshop to other teachers. The facilitator was really engaging and the children really enjoyed the day. I was very impressed with what they retained and they were able to recall it with ease. Thank you so much!’
Dromore National School, Bantry
‘Motus Learning carried out the program on emotional literacy and emotional intelligence. The sessions were hands on, engaging and interesting for all the learners. There was so much to take from the sessions and there was capacity to follow up on the content shared in other lessons in the week. The facilitators were energetic and able to pitch the learning really well for all the pupils in Year 6. I strongly recommend other schools taking up this short programme for their year 6 pupils due to its effectiveness and outstanding outcomes’.
Claude Gauci, Headteacher, Servite RC Primary School
‘I think the program was really good and the children have taken a lot from the workshops. The children were so engaged and the sessions were very relevant and well-pitched. I would be more than happy to carry out the same program in future years. I think we need to continue working on emotional intelligence with them, as this is an area that we all need to work on’.
Louise Ramage, Deputy Headteacher, North Beckton Primary School
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Psychologists

“An initiative that seems much needed with the increase in mental health problems among children and adolescents and a program that is embedded in psychological theory. A company that is motivated to make greater impact and positive change”
Jo Hagues, Counselling Psychologist
“This is a program that educates children on how to build a strong foundation for future proactive mental health development. The seven steps to emotional intelligence program contains facets that are applied to adults in clinical settings and this is information that is beneficial to everyone, regardless of age. Teaching children about their mental health from a young age will also help future generations gain greater benefit from therapy."
Jane Basher, Clinical Psychologist
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Children

"Thank you very much because I've learnt lots about emotions."
Maddison
"The sessions were super fun and really cool".
Ruby
"I now know that emotions are different to thinking and that there are lots of different emotions"
Abdul
"I now understand how to stop and think before doing something"
Kamilla
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