our minds matter

• Promote the physical and mental health benefits of joyful movement to students 
• Encourage students to listen and dance to music as a healthy coping strategy
• Encourage students to create an action plan to support mental health for themselves, their loved ones, and their community
• Create connection, belonging, and fun for students

We are focusing on music and movement because:

• music can help us relieve stress, feel our feelings, and feel more connected to others
• movement can allow us to feel more grounded and connected to our bodies, boost our energy, and help us get “unstuck” from difficult emotions

• Entire school

• Get approval from the principal/administration
• Ask for permission and support to broadcast over the loudspeakers

• For this campaign, you will be broadcasting an announcement and playing a song for the entire school
• Reserve a 10-minute window during the school day to broadcast
  • Ideally, this would be a time that works best for all students to participate
• If you are using the action cards, make sure to distribute them ahead of time to teachers to pass out in their classrooms
  • Students will fill these out after the song is played
• Use the announcement template to begin your broadcast and explain the campaign
• Play your chosen song
  • The song should be school appropriate and ideally uplifting with a fun beat
  • For example, OMM suggested “Break My Soul” by Beyonce in 2024
• Choose a positive affirmation to read after the song ends
  • Ex. “You are loved,” “You are enough,” “You deserve to be happy”
• Encourage students to fill out their action cards and brainstorm ways they can act to support mental health for themselves, their loved ones and their community
  • Ex. go on a walk, spend quality time with a loved one, volunteer in the community
• Before you sign off, promote your OMM club and announce the next time you will be meeting for any who are interested

• Promote the campaign on the morning announcements a day or two before you plan to broadcast the event
• Work with the administration to get buy in from the teachers to encourage participation
• You can also hang up fliers, have OMM representatives remind folks about it in their classes, and include it in the school newsletter
• If your club has a social media, you can promote the event there as well

• Do you see students smiling and moving to the music? That’s a win!
• Seeing students filling out the action cards is also a win!
• Are more students interested in joining your OMM club? Great!

• How did you feel moving to the music?
• What was the reaction of other students?
• How can we promote more opportunities for joyful movement at our school?
• Was this helpful for club recruitment? Why or why not?

• If you aren’t able to distribute the action cards to every classroom, consider having a stack of cards at a table during lunch or in the hallway to hand out to students