Healthy Minds 101 Course with Joe Padilla (co-founder of Mental Health Grace Alliance)

You can watch all the videos in about 40 minutes.

ABOUT YOUR GRACE ALLIANCE COACH: Joe Padilla 

Joe Padilla cofounded Mental Health Grace Alliance (MHGA) in 2011 with neuroscientist Dr. Matthew Stanford to address the lack of mental health support within Christian communities. Drawing from 12 years of missions, social development, and ministry—as well as his own journey overcoming childhood adversity and supporting his wife’s mental health recovery—Joe helped shape a model that integrates Christian faith, clinical research, and compassionate care.

As the primary architect of Grace Alliance resources and training, Joe has facilitated Grace Groups, provided recovery and resilience coaching to hundreds, and delivered training worldwide across churches, conferences, universities, seminaries, and medical and community settings. Four published studies document the positive outcomes of his work through Grace Alliance curricula, groups, coaching, and training.

 
 

Click on the image to the left to download the Living Resilience Evaluation as discussed in the introduction video

(explained in video 1).

 
 

Healthy Minds 101 Introduction (1:13 min.)

  1. Why these videos

  2. Living Resilience Evaluation (a metric to see where you are)

Understanding the Whole-health and Whole-Person Focus (2:17 Min.)

  1. What is a whole-health approach

  2. What is whole-health alignment

Perspective: How transforming & renewing minds Work (9:23 min.)

  1. Understanding mindsets and how they guide our lives

  2. Aligning conscious and subconscious minds to renew our thinking (minds) and be transformed

  3. Negative thinking tool for CAB (comfort and belonging)

Interaction: Healthy community & relationships (4:20 min.)

  1. The people who “anchor” and “propel” us from distress to being mighty

  2. Reciprocal Peers

  3. Mentors locally and beyond that inspire and propel you

  4. Seeing a therapist is not because we’re weak

Experience: The simple neuroscience to fulfilling your goals, purpose, and dreams (5:12 min.)

  1. Understanding what “vision” and “purpose” is really about

  2. How to use neuroscience to set goals and life purpose

Lifestyle: Building a physical resilient life for stress relief (15:30 min.)

  1. Living a balanced pace of life, with the right energy

  2. Exercise is not just a program; it’s a creative activity

  3. Nutrition from the gut to the brain

  4. Sleep tips - closing the “B.L.I.N.D.S.”

  5. The Christian meditation you’ve probably never heard of for whole-health transformation

 

All Mental Health Grace Alliance resources complement and promote professional therapy and treatment, and are not intended to replace or discontinue. (see full disclaimer).