Frequently Asked Questions

Noa is HERE’s mindful activity support companion, helping teachers, counsellors, clinicians, coaches, parents and other trusted adults find practical mindfulness and wellbeing activities for children, teens and families.

Every activity Noa shares is drawn exclusively from HERE’s proprietary library of thousands of wellbeing activities, in English with a growing Spanish collection. The library has been developed through eight years of award-winning programme delivery, professional expertise and partnership across the United Kingdom and the United States.

HERE’s mindfulness and wellbeing activities have been shaped in real-life settings, including London Family Hubs, Premier League club foundations, schools, clinical and therapeutic environments, youth programmes, community organisations and family homes. They have been used by the professionals and caregivers supporting children, teens and families every day, then strengthened through continued practice, feedback and learning.

Noa makes this established digital wellbeing library easier to explore, helping people quickly find an age-appropriate activity suited to the setting, need and moment. Whether support is needed for calm, confidence, connection, emotional regulation or resilience, Noa helps make trusted activities easier to find and use that same day.

Noa is a character, a guide who walks with you through the platform, represented by the distinctive leaf of the Hawaiian koa tree. Its long, gently curved shape and parallel veins reflect the qualities we hope Noa brings to each moment: steadiness, growth and quiet strength.

The name also carries meaning. Koa is associated with bravery, while noa can mean freedom or release. Together, they speak to the possibility of feeling a little more capable, grounded and free to move forward. The koa leaf has become our symbol for a small beginning: one breath, one activity, one moment of connection, or one next step that feels manageable.

Noa has a small supporting cast we are building slowly, a family of leaf, seedling, and fiddlehead, with a few quiet neighbours. They arrive when they have something to do, not before.

No. Noa draws exclusively from HERE’s proprietary wellbeing library, created by our founders and expert partners through eight years of award-winning work with schools, clinicians, London Family Hubs, Premier League club foundations, community organisations and families across the UK and US.

She is not an open-ended chatbot. Noa is HERE’s purpose-built mindful activity support companion, designed to help educators, counsellors, clinicians, coaches, parents and other trusted adults find meaningful support for the age, need and moment in front of them.

Features such as Plan with Noa use technology to organise and select activities from our established library, creating personalised weekly plans and activity packs that can be used in classrooms, counselling spaces, clinical environments, sports programmes, community settings and family homes.

Noa does not search the open internet, invent wellbeing activities or offer unreviewed suggestions. Every activity she shares has been created, developed and reviewed by HERE’s founder and professional partners before becoming part of our library of thousands of activities, in English with a growing Spanish collection.

Noa is not a person or a therapist, and she does not replace professional care. Her role is focused and practical: to make HERE’s trusted body of work easier to explore, so people can find the right activity and put it to use when it is needed most.

• Teachers, teaching assistants, and school leaders
• School counsellors and pastoral teams
• Mental health and clinical practitioners
• Community, youth, and sports club staff
• Parents, carers, and whole families
• Children and young people, alongside a trusted adult

Activities are labelled by audience, so you can filter for the age group in front of you, or for yourself. A good number of the adult activities were written for the practitioners, because the person holding the room needs looking after too.

HERE’s five wellbeing pillars are Mindfulness, Nature, Creativity, Connection and Trauma-Informed Awareness.

They are not simply categories used to organise our library. They are the framework that has emerged from eight years of award-winning programme delivery, professional practice and partnership with schools, clinicians, London Family Hubs, Premier League club foundations, community organisations and families across the UK and US.

Through that work, we saw the same foundations of wellbeing return again and again:

• Mindfulness. Using attention, breath and body awareness to support emotional regulation, focus and a greater sense of steadiness.
• Nature. Connecting with the natural world, spending time outdoors and bringing the grounding qualities of nature into everyday spaces.
• Creativity. Making, drawing, writing, imagining and expressing without pressure, judgement, performance or grades.
• Connection. Strengthening a person’s relationship with themselves, with others and with the communities and environments around them.
• Trauma-Informed Awareness. Creating experiences grounded in safety, choice, trust, predictability and respect for each person’s boundaries and lived experience.

Every activity in the HERE library is connected to at least one of these pillars, and many bring several together. They shape how our programmes are designed, how our activities are written and how the entire library is organised.

Two ways, and you can move between them freely.

• Search. By name, by feeling, or by moment. Try a word like restless, or a moment like after lunch.
• Filter. The Library filter drawer covers Feelings, Duration, Pillars, Season, Audience, and Language.

If you are short on time, Noa's Picks This Week sits at the top of the Library with a handful of gentle places to begin.

Yes. HERE activities are designed to be easy to print and use in the moment.

You can choose from individual worksheets, postcard-sized activities and multi-page activity packs. Plans and packs can also be printed together, making them easy to use in classrooms, counselling spaces, staff rooms, community settings or at home. You can also save your favourite activities to My Journal by clicking the heart icon.

Yes. Activities are available in English and Spanish, and you can filter the Library by language so you only see what you can use. The Spanish collection is smaller than the English one and growing steadily.

Anywhere from one minute to a full session. Duration is a filter, so if you have four minutes before the bell you can ask for four minutes.

The shorter activities are not lesser versions of the long ones. They were written to be brief, easy to use in moments of need, and accessible for real world scenarios.

No specialist training or equipment is needed. Each activity includes the setup, suggested words and practical guidance, so you can pick one up and use it the same day without preparation. There are some activities where props such as breathing balls, pom poms, and/or other sensory items could be an added element if you choose.

HERE activities are designed for real life, whether you are in a classroom, at home, waiting in a grocery queue, sitting in traffic or finding a few steady minutes during a busy day.

Many activities need nothing more than a few minutes and a little space. Where materials are involved, every activity lists exactly what is needed before you begin, so you know at a glance whether it fits the moment in front of you. Most call for everyday things: paper, pencils, colouring supplies, a window or something found outside.

From the work itself. For eight years, HERE has designed and delivered wellbeing programmes with partners across the United Kingdom and the United States: schools and school districts, local authorities and London boroughs, football club foundations, family hubs, and community organisations.

That means the library was not written in one go. It accumulated. Sessions ran, practitioners took notes, children told us plainly what they thought, and the things that did not hold up were cut. What is in the Library now is what survived contact with a busy Tuesday afternoon.

Each activity is informed by published research on mindfulness, time in nature, creative expression, social connection, and trauma-informed practice. The research tells us what tends to help. The partnerships tell us what a person can actually do with thirty children and eleven minutes.

Activities are written by HERE’s founders, team members and specialist partners, then reviewed for clarity, accessibility, age-appropriate language, emotional safety and trauma-informed practice.

Jen Armstrong holds an MSc in Developmental and Educational Psychology, with further training across children’s yoga, mindfulness, family and parenting support and programme delivery. Dana Olson is a technology and social-impact founder, selected for the UK Government’s Exceptional Talent programme in digital technology. They are supported by a multidisciplinary team spanning trauma-informed practice, clinical care, education, child development and creative practice.

Review does not end at publication. When an educator, clinician, child or family tells us the language or guidance could be better, we change it. The practical notes from people using the activities are how the library got good in the first place.

No. Noa is a wellbeing resource. The activities support regulation, expression, connection, and reflection, and many of them are used inside clinical and pastoral settings by qualified people as part of their own practice.

Noa does not assess, diagnose, or treat, and it is not a replacement for care from a doctor, therapist, or crisis service. If a child or an adult is in distress and needs help now, please contact a local professional or emergency service rather than a platform.

Our activities were built alongside schools working to their own statutory and local frameworks, so they are designed to slot into existing provision rather than replace it: form time, assemblies, intervention groups, pastoral one to ones, and home learning.

HERE and Noa work alongside whatever scheme you already use. Plan with Noa lets you create your own weekly plans and activity packs from the library, shaped around your needs and the time you have, so it fills the gaps in your existing provision rather than asking you to adopt a second curriculum.

If you want to talk through how it would fit your setting, please contact us.

Places to wander rather than search. Each World is an illustrated setting with activities tucked into it, so you can move at the pace of curiosity and find something you were not looking for.

Nothing lives only in a World. Every activity you find there is also in the Library, so you can always search for it again later.

Your own quiet page. My Journal holds a notebook you can write in, a tray of stamps to mark a page, the activities you have saved, and the plans you have made with Noa.

You can download a note, or send one to a colleague, a parent, or yourself.

You tell Noa who the plan is for, how long you have, and what you are hoping for. Noa drafts a weekly plan or an activity pack from the library, and you edit it until it is yours.

Plans arrive in your notebook as a set of days you can read at a glance, print, or send on.

Yes. Save anything from the Library and it appears in the saved rail in My Journal, grouped by month so recent finds stay near the top and older ones fold away.

Yes. Noa will always include free mindfulness and wellbeing activities for children, teens and the adults who support them.

Without paying or creating an account, you can explore a selection of the HERE Library, wander through our Wellbeing Worlds and find practical activities for balance, breath, belonging, confidence, connection and everyday emotional support.

Even the free experience is designed to give you something meaningful to use, whether you are supporting one child at home, a classroom of students, a counselling session or a community group.

You can upgrade at any time to access the full library of thousands of activities, personalised plans, complete activity packs, the digital journal and the wider Noa experience. You can also cancel at any time.

• The full library containing thousands of activities across all five wellbeing pillars
• Every printable activity, worksheet and guide
• Plan with Noa, for weekly activity plans and activity packs
• My Journal, with saved activities, stamps, and a space for reflections and note taking
• English and Spanish, with the Spanish collection growing steadily
• New activities as they are added

Current prices are on the membership page. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the period you have paid for.

An individual membership is for one person. If a team, a school, or a service needs access, a team or organisation plan is the right fit and works out considerably better per person.

Yes. Schools and community settings are at the heart of HERE’s work. This is where HERE began, at Melcombe Primary School in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, with our first in-person OM:POP programme bringing mindfulness, yoga, creativity, calming and sensory activities to students, families and school staff.

We partner with individual schools, multi-school groups, school districts, local authorities, London boroughs, Family Hubs, Premier League club foundations, healthcare and therapeutic services, charities and community organisations across the United Kingdom and the United States.

Support can include access to Noa and HERE’s full digital wellbeing library, staff resources, personalised activity packs, tailored Wellbeing Worlds, platform integration and programme delivery alongside our experienced team.

Every partnership is shaped around the people, setting and priorities involved. Whether you are supporting one school or an entire community, we can help weave practical, trauma-informed mindfulness and wellbeing support into the places children, teens, families and professionals already spend their time. Talk to us about your setting and we will show you what fits.

Yes. There will always be free activities available to support you, so you can explore Noa, try activities in real-life settings and see how they work for the children, teens or families you support.

You can upgrade at any time to access the full HERE activity library, digital journal, personalised plans, activity packs and the complete Noa experience. You can also cancel your subscription at any time.

Not yet, and it is coming. We are building a way for HERE instructors to submit the tools they love so the library keeps growing from the people using it. We will open it carefully, with the same review every activity goes through.

Your journal is yours. Notes, plans, and saved activities belong to your account and are not shared with other users unless you send them yourself.

We do not sell your data, and there is no advertising anywhere on Noa. Full detail is in our privacy notice.

Accounts are held by adults: teachers, practitioners, parents, and carers. We keep what we collect to a minimum, and we collect as little as possible from or about children.

Child-facing activities are written for children and reviewed before publication, and children's activities are designed to be used alongside a trusted adult rather than alone.

Follow your organisation’s safeguarding or child protection policy immediately and in full, including any required reporting, recording and escalation procedures.

Noa is not a safeguarding or reporting channel, and conversations or activity responses are not monitored for disclosures. If a child shares something that raises a concern about their safety or wellbeing, respond according to your professional responsibilities and the procedures in your setting.

HERE activities are created with this responsibility in mind. They invite reflection without pressuring children or teens to disclose more than they choose, and trauma-informed activities include guidance on emotional safety, what to be aware of and when it may be appropriate to pause or stop.

We build for it deliberately: the platform can be used with a keyboard, motion is slow and settles rather than jumps, and we honour reduced motion settings so animation stops if your device asks it to. Language is kept plain, and printables are made to stay readable in black and white.

We are not finished. If something is not working for you, tell us what and where, and we will fix it.

Yes. Noa works in your browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or classroom display, with nothing to download or install.

You can find an activity in the moment, or print what you need beforehand and put the screen away. Individual worksheets, postcard-sized activities and multi-page packs can also be collected over time to create your own personalised wellbeing workbook or journal.

The support is there when you need it, whether you use it on screen, around a table or tucked into a folder to return to later.

Write to us. Broken links, confusing wording, an activity that did not land, an idea for something missing: all of it is welcome, and the practical notes from practitioners are how the library got good in the first place.