Lifting the School Community

with Finger Lakes Area School Health Plan

Sept 1st 2025 – July 4th 2026

The Lift Project: Small Steps, Big Change, Your Way, On Your Time

We’re excited you’re here! The Lift Project is available for you to complete at your own pace from September 1st 2025, through July 4th 2026.

With 10 months to explore one lesson per month, you’ll have the flexibility to engage with the topics that matter most, when you need them most. Because true wellness and lifestyle change aren’t about quick fixes, they happen in the small moments, done consistently over time. This year’s Lift Project gives you the freedom to grow, learn, and thrive on your own schedule.

Use your special code (provided in your email when you registered) to view the lessons, in any order, at any time.

Guided Tour emails

You can still choose to subscribe to our ‘guided tour’ emails, and complete the course in 10 weeks! Whenever you are ready to start Lesson One, simply enter your email below and subscribe.

As soon as you subscribe, you’ll be sent the Lesson One email. You’ll receive two emails each week – the first will introduce the new lesson, and the second will check in with you during the week to see how you’re doing.

After 10 weeks, you will receive a Monthly Lift for the next nine months to revisit what they have learnt and to introduce some new learnings too! You can unsubscribe at any time.

FLASHP Start Guided Tour

Monthly Lift Meet-up

You are also invited to join the Lift Meet-up! The Lift Meet-up is a once-a-month online “live” session where Dr Darren presents a 10-minute wellbeing insight, followed by discussion time. It’s not part of the 10-week course, it’s just an extra lift The Lift Project hosts for free each month. If you’d like to join the monthly Lift Meet-Up, you can subscribe to The Lift Project newsletter and you’ll be sent the meeting link each month.

Questions?

If you’ve got questions about Lifting the School Community please contact Smola Consulting Wellness Coordinator, Dan Justis. If you are having trouble accessing the course or would like more information about The Lift Project, contact us.

The Lift Project is free for individuals, families, community groups, and small businesses (10 employees or less). For all other corporate enquiries, and to find out how it can be used in education, healthcare, the workplace, and whole communities please contact us.

The Lift Project is an educational program designed to support you to lift your mood and your life. The Lift Project does not take the place of personal professional care from your doctor. Changes in medication(s) should only be made in consultation with your doctor.

Week 1: Your Limbo is listening.

Say hello to your ‘Limbo’ (the nickname for your Limbic System), which is your ’emotional brain’ also in charge of motivation, memory and many automatic bodily processes. Learn why how you speak to yourself and others influences how you feel and how you can increase your speech positivity ratio.

Week 2: Motion creates emotion.

You have millions of nerves distributed throughout your body called ‘proprioceptors’ that tell your Limbo how you are moving. Learn how to give your Limbo a lift by moving dynamically!

Week 3: Blue and green should often be seen.

What’s so great about the great outdoors? In this lesson discover why it is so uplifting to get outside where the light is right.

Week 4: Together feels better.

Happiness is socially contagious. Find out why in this lesson and what you can do about it.

Week 5: Feelings follow your focus.

Want to discover a simple technique for boosting your emotional wellbeing for the next 6 months? Learn how in this lesson as you discover ways to look to the positive in the past, present and future.

Week 6: Food feeds your mood.

One of the most fascinating areas of current medical research has lead to the discovery that your gut is your ‘second brain’. If you want to be happy, you need a happy gut and in this lesson you discover the magic ingredient for making it so.

Week 7: Rest to feel your best.

Most people are sleep deprived and are suffering for it. In this lesson learn the cure for the three sleep-stealing culprits of our time.

Week 8: Stress less.

Do you need to turn down the heat and open the values on stress? Learn how in this lesson as well as what might be the most powerful and profound way to establish work-life balance.

Week 9: Giving is living.

You have a unique contribution to make, and doing it can fill your life in every way. Discover how in this lesson.

Week 10: What does it take to flourish?

There are five things you need in life to flourish. Discover what they are in this lesson. Do all five to thrive.

Yay! You’ve completed The Lift Project! We genuinely hope you enjoyed the journey and benefitted from the course. We are on a mission to lift 10 million lives and we are glad that you joined us! We value your feedback because it helps us improve how The Lift Project is delivered! Thank you for taking the time to answer a few simple questions.