Evidence based wellbeing, compliance ready programs, and purpose driven consulting for modern organisations.
Foundational Minds brings applied neuroscience and behaviour science into the workplace, the school, and the community — delivered through programs that respect the intelligence of your people and meet the regulatory requirements of your organisation.
WHS Act amendments, Safe Work Australia's psychosocial hazards guidance, and ISO 45003 have fundamentally changed what Australian employers must do. Wellbeing is no longer a benefit. It is a documented, auditable obligation.
Organisations are now required to identify psychosocial hazards, assess risk, implement preventative controls, and document the process. Reactive responses — EAPs after burnout, counselling after crisis — do not satisfy the proactive duty of care. The minimum standard is now upstream.
Both offerings are grounded in applied neuroscience, delivered by registered practitioners, and built for real people in real organisations. Neither is therapy. Both are transformative.
A four-module program delivered via beautifully designed weekly workbooks — or facilitated in person for teams who want live delivery. Built for busy people who need tools they will actually use, grounded in neuroscience they will actually understand.
A standalone PDF series teaching adults how their brains work — the adult equivalent of the Daniel's Diaries children's framework. What children learn at school about their brains, parents learn here. Shared language, across the family and across the workplace.
Every program includes participation documentation, psychosocial hazard mapping, and outcome data structured to support your WHS obligations under current legislation. Not just good for your team — defensible for your organisation.
A pair of socks to a child experiencing disadvantage. A portion of proceeds to research on youth crime prevention. This is not a charity add-on. It is the architecture of what Foundational Minds exists to do. When your team gets better, other people's kids get a better chance.
Delivered weekly as interactive workbooks. Optional in-person facilitation. Designed for low time demand and high practical impact. Scales from five-person teams to enterprise-wide rollout.
Four standalone psychoeducation workbooks covering the neuroscience of everyday adult life. Not therapy. Not clinical. Practical tools built on the same framework as the Daniel's Diaries children's platform — because shared language between home and workplace is where real change happens.
Not a repackaged wellbeing deck. Not a buzzword seminar. A clinically grounded psychoeducation program designed and quality-assured by registered practitioners with deep expertise in neuroscience, behaviour support, and trauma informed care.
Every Foundational Minds corporate wellbeing program carries social impact built into its structure. When your organisation funds Minds at Work or the Adult Workbook Series, a pair of socks goes to a child experiencing disadvantage — and a portion of proceeds directly funds Pull Our Socks Up, Aimee Floyd's social enterprise and research initiative into the upstream causes of youth crime.
This is not a charity add-on attached to a commercial product. It is the architecture of the business. Foundational Minds exists at the intersection of organisational performance and social justice. When your people get better, other people's kids get a better chance.
The social justice arm of Foundational Minds. Because upstream always beats downstream — and no intervention matters more than making sure a child has what they need to feel safe.
The Monthly Sock Pilot is a corporate partnership program through which organisations commit to a monthly sock donation — providing a basic but meaningful item to children experiencing disadvantage across regional Australia. Socks are one of the most requested and least donated items at shelters, schools, and community services. They are small, practical, and profoundly symbolic of being seen.
For your organisation, the Pilot delivers a tangible, visible giving commitment that connects your team to a social cause in a direct and human way. Partners receive POSU branding, quarterly impact reporting, and integration support for WHS and ESG documentation.
Choose a monthly giving tier that fits your organisation — from five-person small business to enterprise scale. Transparent pricing, no lock-in contracts.
We source and deliver socks directly to children in need through verified community partners, schools, and welfare organisations across regional NSW and beyond.
You receive a quarterly impact report detailing reach, distribution, and research updates — structured for WHS and ESG reporting use.
A portion of proceeds directly funds POSU's ongoing research into the upstream determinants of youth crime — building the evidence base that changes policy.
POSU founder and Foundational Minds Clinical Director Aimee Floyd has developed an original research thesis proposing that meeting a child's foundational safety needs — consistent food, safe shelter, warmth, and genuine belonging — provides the neurological and relational conditions under which all other intervention becomes possible.
Without those conditions, therapeutic programs, educational outcomes, and behavioural supports achieve a fraction of their potential. With them, children become neurologically available for learning, connection, and growth. This is not a new idea. It is one the research has supported for decades, that practitioners know in their bones, and that policy has consistently failed to operationalise.
POSU exists to document it, advocate for it, and fund it — one pair of socks at a time.
A child cannot regulate, learn, or connect when their nervous system is managing hunger. Food is not welfare — it is neuroscience.
The brain cannot distinguish between housing instability and active threat. Homelessness activates the same stress response as danger.
Warmth, including clothing, is a co-regulator. Children who are cold are children in survival mode. Socks are small and they matter enormously.
Attachment is biological. Children who lack relational belonging are not poorly behaved. They are neurologically unsafe — and their behaviour reflects that.
Some challenges don't fit an off-the-shelf program. If your school, organisation, or community is navigating a specific wellbeing or behavioural challenge — one with its own history, context, and community — we design something that actually fits.
Foundational Minds' consulting work is grounded in the same clinical framework as our direct programs. A consultant works directly with your organisation to understand the problem at its roots, map the contextual factors that sustain it, and design a psychoeducation or behaviour support program that your community can use.
This is not a rebranded corporate training package. It is bespoke program design — evidence based, culturally informed, and built for your specific situation.
A discovery consultation explores the challenge, its context, who is affected, what has been tried, and what success must look like. No assumptions. No templates applied before the conversation.
We build a tailored program from the evidence up — drawing on behaviour science, trauma informed frameworks, and psychoeducation approaches adapted for your audience, whether that is students, parents, staff, or a whole community.
Programs are delivered in the format that serves your community best. We remain involved through implementation, measure outcomes against what actually matters, and adapt in response to what emerges.
A regional NSW secondary school approached Foundational Minds following a significant increase in peer-based conflict and school refusal across two year groups. Existing pastoral care structures were stretched. Staff were managing crisis daily but had no shared framework for understanding behaviour through a trauma lens. The school's broader community had experienced significant disruption in the preceding 18 months.
Whether you're ready to bring Minds at Work to your team, curious about the Monthly Sock Pilot, or facing a challenge that needs a bespoke solution — we'd love to hear from you.
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