A premium-licensed three-year program for Years 10, 11, 12. SACE-aligned through EIF (Stage 1) and AIF (Stage 2). Australian Curriculum V9.0 mapped. Built for Australian schools that take wellbeing seriously.
Australian secondary schools are increasingly responsible for student wellbeing — but the curriculum content available has consistently fallen short. Generic mental health units. Programs that don't engage adolescents. Awareness content that doesn't build capability.
Forge Conditioning is different. It's a structured three-year curriculum designed by educators, mapped to the Australian Curriculum and SACE compulsory subjects, and delivered with full facilitator training and assessment scaffolding.
The foundation year of the three-year arc. Students build foundational identity awareness, physical foundations literacy, and the audit-capacity that everything else depends on. SACE-aligned to Exploring Identities and Futures (EIF), the compulsory Stage 1 subject.
SACE Stage 1 EIF aligned · 10 SACE credits via the compulsory subject · 30-40 modules across the year
SACE Stage 1 Integrated Learning aligned · 10 or 20 SACE credits via flexible subject design · 30-40 modules across the year
The development year. Students extend identity work into emotional regulation, relational capability, hard conversations, and the foundational mental health literacy that protects them through Year 12 and beyond. Delivered through SACE Stage 1 Integrated Learning (10 or 20 credits).
The threshold year. The most sophisticated and demanding year of the three. Identity at the threshold of independence. Sustained mental health practice through the highest-pressure year. Decisions about post-school direction. SACE-aligned to Activating Identities and Futures (AIF), the compulsory Stage 2 subject from 2026.
SACE Stage 2 AIF aligned (compulsory from 2026) · ATAR-eligible · Optional dual-subject pathway with Integrated Learning for 20-30 credits
Forge Conditioning is mapped to current Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 and current SACE compulsory subjects. Schools do not need to register Forge Conditioning separately with the SACE Board — they deliver the existing SACE-accredited subjects using Forge content.
The fit with EIF (Stage 1 compulsory) and AIF (Stage 2 compulsory from 2026) is structural — these subjects are about identity, futures, and capability development. That's exactly what Forge Conditioning delivers.
Exploring Identities and Futures — compulsory Stage 1 subject. 10 credits. Two assessment types.
Stage 1 Integrated Learning. 10 or 20 credits. Three assessment types.
Activating Identities and Futures — compulsory Stage 2 from 2026. 10 credits. ATAR-eligible.
Full curriculum mapping documents available on request — including Australian Curriculum V9.0 HPE focus areas, General Capabilities, English, HASS alignment.
The most undervalued principle in modern mental health work. Small actions, consistently. Compounded over months.
Cognitive defusion. A thought is a mental event, not a directive. Foundational to mental health.
The bedrock of exposure therapy. Proven across anxiety, PTSD, OCD. The thing you've been avoiding is exactly what's keeping you stuck.
Programs built on motivation fail. Programs built on discipline work because they don't require the feeling.
When you know who you are, emotions move through you. When identity is unstable, every emotion becomes a verdict.
Capacity is built through tolerable discomfort. The man who avoids all discomfort doesn't get permanent comfort — he gets shrinking capacity.
Forge Conditioning is delivered under a premium school license. Schools considering implementation engage with our curriculum team to scope:
"The first wellbeing program we've delivered that students actually engage with — and that satisfies our SACE compulsory subject requirements at the same time."
Pilot school leader · South Australia