The training course called “Thoughts in Mind Project” or more recently “The Resilience Programme” was created by Prof. Poul Lundgaard Bak (Aarhus University, Denmark) with the aim of implementing the mentalization skills of adults who are part of an educational context, primarily teachers, in order to create a so-called “mentalizing context”.

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The term mentalization refers to the ability to “Keep in mind the mind” of others during moments of interaction and communication, that is, always remembering that in these moments both one’s own point of view, thoughts and emotions are involved, as well as those of others: only in this way is it possible to start adequate and effective communications, but above all to build positive and supportive relationships.

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The idea of ​​Prof. Bak is twofold: on the one hand, he believes that training adults' mentalization skills contributes to building a community in which children learn this skill almost automatically (if everyone believes it is important to keep each other's minds at bay, children will also learn to do so), on the other hand, according to the author, training one's own mentalization means being able to use it to deal with difficult or particularly stressful moments, thus becoming more resilient.

The pages made available on this site are the translation of the contents of the original website (available in Danish and English) and are the result of the collaboration between the Research Unit on the Theory of Mind and Prof. Bak: they contain theoretical food for thought, real "training for the mind", stories and tales that can be used both in adult education and adapted to be applied directly with children in educational contexts.

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Download the Italian version of the tool, the translation is by Edoardo Bracaglia and Valentina Cornetti.