Flourishing — A Course on Youth Mental Health by SOAR
There's a particular kind of loneliness in managing your mental health while looking completely fine on the outside. And there's a particular kind of helplessness in caring deeply about a young person and not quite knowing how to reach them.
Flourishing was built for both.
It started in a workshop a few years ago, when our youth facilitators stopped facilitating and started talking — really talking. The adults in the room heard things they rarely get to hear directly from young people. The youths felt something they don't always feel around adults: that they weren't being managed. Something shifted in that room. That unplanned moment became the design principle for everything that followed.
Flourishing is that moment, made repeatable.
Over six fortnightly sessions from September to November 2026, youths (15–24) and trusted adults — parents, teachers, coaches, mentors — learn alongside each other. This is a closed cohort: you'll go through the full journey with the same group of people, from the first session to the last. The relationships you build across those ten weeks are part of what the course is designed to hold.
This isn't a support group. It's a course — co-designed with people who've been through it, and co-facilitated by young people with lived experience. What you leave with isn't just insight. It's language. And sometimes, that's everything.
THE JOURNEY
Session 1 — "Beloved, I want to tell you..." — A Letter Writing Workshop
Saturday, 19 September 2026, 10am–12pm
Some things are easier to write than to say. In our opening session, we use letters as a way in — not to perform vulnerability, but to find it quietly, on your own terms. You'll write to someone who matters, or to a version of yourself that needs to hear something. It's a gentle first step into the conversations that follow.
Session 2 — Understanding Stress and Burnout
Saturday, 3 October 2026, 10am–12pm
We start where most of us actually are — tired, stretched, and not always sure why. This session helps you take stock of what you're carrying, using a structured and non-judgmental approach to understanding stress. The goal isn't diagnosis. It's recognition — naming what's heavy so the room can hold it together.
Session 3 — Exploring Wellbeing Through PERMA
Saturday, 17 October 2026, 10am–12pm
Flourishing looks different for everyone. This session moves from naming what's hard to asking what's possible — drawing on a research-based framework to help you identify your own strengths and what genuinely sustains you. Less about fixing. More about seeing yourself more fully.
Session 4 — Learning Through the Life of "Janet"
Saturday, 31 October 2026, 10am–12pm
Sometimes the clearest way into your own experience is through someone else's story. This session centres a composite character — built from real experiences shared by past participants — whose journey through burnout and into recovery becomes a shared reference point for the group. It creates just enough distance to go somewhere real.
Session 5 — The Intergenerational Fishbowl Conversation
Saturday, 14 November 2026, 10am–12pm
This is the session people remember. Youths sit in the inner circle and share — adults listen, without interrupting or advising. Then the circle opens. What follows is a facilitated conversation that most participants describe as unlike anything they've experienced across generations before. It doesn't always go neatly. That's the point.
Session 6 — Self-care is Not Selfish: A Practical Guide
Saturday, 28 November 2026, 10am–12pm
The final session is about making what you've learned liveable. We look at practical tools for emotional regulation — the kind you can actually use on an ordinary Wednesday when things feel heavy. It's a grounding close to the course, and the beginning of something more sustainable than insight alone.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Youths aged 15–24 — whether you're in school, poly, ITE, or figuring out what comes next. You don't need to be in crisis to benefit. You just need to be curious about your own wellbeing.
Trusted adults aged 25 and above — parents, teachers, coaches, tutors, mentors. If there's a young person in your life whose inner world you want to understand better, this course is for you too.
Flourishing is a community-based, early-intervention course. It is not a clinical programme and is not designed for those currently in acute distress. If you're unsure whether this is the right fit, reach out to us before registering nihao@soar.sg.
Why $60?
The true cost for the course comes out to $690/pax. Thanks to The Majurity Trust's Musim Mas BlueStar* Fund, we're able to bring this down to $60/pax for this run.
We have a student fee priced at $30/pax too, but we'd need to verify with your student card before approval.
The small fee is intentional - a commitment that helps everyone show up for themselves and for the group. If cost is a concern, do reach out to us directly at nihao@soar.sg.