Your course, on your participants' phones
Most mindfulness and wellbeing teachers have no good way to deliver their courses digitally. We built a platform so they can, without compromising the evidence base or learning to code.
healthcare professionals use ESRT StrongMind at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery
Bangor University research, 2020
in production with wellbeing teachers and healthcare professionals
Built by a teacher who needed it
The platform has been shaped by eight years of real-world use with wellbeing teachers and healthcare professionals. It is not a generic learning management system. It is built from inside the teacher community, for that community.
BeWell IT is for-profit, but not venture-backed. The model is sustainability, not scale at any cost. The platform that began as one teacher's tool now runs a clinical deployment at UCSF, and the mission is to make that same capability available to every teacher.
I built this platform because I needed it myself. As a mindfulness teacher, I wanted to extend group learning beyond the classroom and reach people where they are, on their phone. I couldn't find a tool that understood how wellbeing programmes actually work: the daily practices, the between-session support, the gentle accountability. So I created one. Read the full story →
Two ways in
Teachers run their own courses and pay by card. Institutions roll out a programme for a whole population. The platform serves both; the path in is different.
For teachers
You have a course that works in the room. Put it on your participants' phones: guided practices, journaling, reading materials, and between-session support. You set it up yourself, with no developer involved, and you can pause between courses. From £25/month for 2026 founding members, £50/month standard.
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For institutions
Healthcare providers, universities, and employers use the platform to put a wellbeing programme in front of a whole population, with engagement analytics and research-grade data collection. UK GDPR compliant, AES encryption, Cyber Essentials certified.
Explore the platform for institutionsDue-diligence pack: Data Protection · Data Processing Agreement · Platform Agreement · Cyber Essentials certificate
Three products, one platform
Two apps for teachers and their participants, and the white-label platform they run on.
Mindful Brian
Personal WellbeingThe app teachers use to deliver their wellbeing courses to participants. Each teacher builds their own programme with guided practices, journaling, mood tracking, and progress tracking.
ESRT StrongMind
Healthcare & ResearchThe digital companion for Enhanced Stress Resilience Training, used by the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery. A custom app on the platform, designed for healthcare professionals.
BeWell Catalyst®
PlatformThe white-label platform that powers it all. Organisations launch branded wellbeing apps with enterprise-grade infrastructure, multi-tenant support, and research-ready data collection.
What people say
From the teaching community
What the coaching community, workshop participants, and course participants from the research study say about teaching and learning through the platform.
If you have years of content, frameworks, teaching, coaching, or ideas sitting in documents and posts, Stephan has built a way to make them usable. Not just readable. Usable.
Brilliant Resource [...] I would not have liked to have been without it.
It's particularly helpful at the present time when lessons are conducted remotely.
Just having it on my phone that I take with me everywhere meant that I engaged with the procedures more frequently.
I found the reflection and journal so useful to work at putting into words one's experience.
Thank you for your outstanding workshop combining lecture and experiential offering. A special gift!
From institutions
Institutional deployments are documented rather than quoted, with named institutional testimonials to follow.
ESRT StrongMind, built on the BeWell Catalyst platform, is used by the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery to deliver Enhanced Stress Resilience Training, the programme created by Dr Carter Lebares, to healthcare professionals.
Last updated: 24 August 2026