Mental fitness is your capacity to handle life’s challenges with a clear mind, emotional resilience, and a grounded sense of self. Strengthening your mental fitness builds up a positive mindset, improves your overall emotional wellbeing, amplifies your happiness and creativity, increases your productivity, and strengthens your relationships.

Mental fitness means maintaining a state of mental and emotional wellbeing while building awareness of how you think, feel, and behave. 

Just as physical fitness strengthens your body to face physical demands, mental fitness strengthens your mind to respond to stress, setbacks, and uncertainty with calm, clarity, and confidence. 

Mental fitness is not about suppressing thoughts or forcing positivity. It’s about building the mental muscles that let you stay focused, connected, and in control — no matter what life throws at you.

Like physical fitness, mental fitness (PQ) can be measured. PQ assesses your mental fitness level by evaluating the strength of your positive mental muscles versus the negative ones.

Mental fitness training helps you develop mental muscles that intercept negative thoughts and activate positive reflexes. Instead of being reactive, you become more creative.

Increase mental fitness to drive your life and business forward while experiencing less stress. Mental fitness is peak performance in the true non-struggle way.

The Mental Fitness Programme is based on research that has included hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams, Stanford students, elite athletes, over 500,000 participants from 50 countries. 

The participants experience immediate and sustained improvements in wellbeing and performance. 

When you sign up for the 7-week Mental Fitness Programme, here's what you receive:

- Access to the exclusive PQ® app (available on both iOS and Android)

- The Saboteur Assessment to personalise your Mental Fitness journey

- Entry into the 7-week Programme

- Daily app-guided micro-exercises that rewire your neural circuits

- Weekly video-based sessions offering a deep, hands-on exploration to help you upgrade your mental operating system

- Community features inside the PQ® app

- Personal Mental Fitness progress dashboard

You'll receive everything through your PQ® app — so you can stay consistent, focused, and supported throughout your journey.

Plus… to encourage you to choose Mental Fitness TODAY, you'll also receive two valuable BONUS GIFTS (total value $1,022)

Bonus Gift #1:
7-week Integration Programme for deeper application of the Mental Fitness approach in your daily life and business situations.

Bonus Gift #2:
12-month Positive Intelligence® membership, including monthly Application Lessons on topics such as Change Management, Leadership, Conflict Management, Energy/Impact Optimisation, Sleep, Emotional Intelligence, Persuasion, and more.

Bonus Gift #3:
The New York Times bestselling book, Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine’s, both audio and PDF versions

Please note: These deliverables are available when you purchase through the links on this site. The pricing and bonus gifts are subject to change, and may be updated or removed at any time.

If you’re thinking about joining, NOW is a great time to say Yes to your Mental Fitness journey!

7-week Mental Fitness Programme
The 7-week Mental Fitness Programme is delivered via the exclusive PQ® app, available on both iOS and Android. It includes daily exercises, weekly videos, personal progress dashboards, and community discussions — all in one place and ready whenever you are.

After signing up, you'll receive all the details on how to download your PQ® app, register your account, and get started with your programme. At any time, you can reach us by emailing [email protected]

Mental Fitness Coaching

If you choose the Private Coaching or Group Coaching option, your coaching sessions will be delivered via Zoom (or Microsoft Teams if preferred).

As a Certified Mental Fitness Coach and licensed Training Provider, I, Dr Virpi Tervonen, will guide you through the Mental Fitness Programme and coach you on how to apply Mental Fitness approach in real life business and leadership situations.

Coaching sessions are held weekly during the first 7 weeks to match the Mental Fitness Programme cadence on the PQ® app. After that, sessions can continue weekly or shift to a bi-weekly rhythm, depending on your goals and schedule.

Private sessions are 60 minutes, and Group Coaching sessions are up to 90 minutes each. You'll receive an AI-generated summary of each session, capturing key insights, value points, and progress achieved. Sessions are scheduled at mutually agreed times, Monday to Thursday, between 7am and 4pm GMT.

If you want more clarity on your Mental Fitness journey, book a call to discuss the Mental Fitness Coaching options.

No, the Mental Fitness Programme transcends traditional self-improvement courses. It’s designed to elevate your cognitive and emotional agility, enabling you to navigate the complexities of business and life with grace and efficiency.

Most trainings fail because they stop at insight and don’t build habits.  

In the Mental Fitness Programme, you’ll get both the insights AND the sustained change towards a more positive mind. 

New habits happen by laying down neural pathways through consistent daily practice.

That’s why we call this a Mental Fitness.  

The programme treats the root cause, not the symptoms. 

The Mental Fitness Programme is based on the factor analysis research by Positive Intelligence. It has revealed the foundational root-level enablers and disablers of optimal performance and wellbeing.  

Together, they form the core operating system of the mind that can run a massive variety of work and life applications. It is one simple operating system with many applications. 

We offer a variety of options depending on your situation and goals. Tailored programmes range from one-to-one coaching to small groups of up to five people.

The foundational Mental Fitness Programme, delivered via the exclusive PQ® app, lasts for 7 weeks. At the moment, when you sign up for the Mental Fitness Programme , you also get access to the 7-week Integration Programme, and the Positive Intelligence® Annual Membership with monthly lessons to keep your growth going.

The Mental Fitness Coaching Programmes where we apply mental fitness approach to specific life and business situations run from 3 to 12 months.

Schedule a Discovery Call with Virpi Tervonen to discuss the best option for you.

Participants of the 7-week Mental Fitness Programme will watch a 1-hour training video once per week, and practise for a combined total of 15 minutes per day. All programme lessons and guidance are delivered via the PQ® App exclusively designed for this programme.

This might sound like a lot of time. 

Cumulatively, the time required constitutes less than 1% of your awake time during the programme time. 

The benefits of mental fitness are manifold. Mental fitness plays a crucial role in preventing the loss of productive hours each week. It helps you handle stress well. It reduces the risk of burnout that can cause big productivity losses. 

This programme gives you tools and strategies to shift from a negative to a positive mindset. This shift lets you navigate business and life’s ups and downs with greater ease. 

It saves time by reducing reactive behaviour, worry, self-doubt, and indecision. It also fosters a work environment that promotes innovation, creativity, and focused action-taking. 

In summary, mental fitness is not just good for wellbeing and relationships. It’s a smart business decision. It can save many hours lost to stress and unproductive behaviours each week.

The first weeks of the Mental Fitness Programme are about building your ‘mental muscles’. It’s like starting a Physical Strength and Conditioning Programme.

You'll get personalised guidance on updating your Mental Operating System. It shifts power from a negative to a positive outlook. You gain mastery over your mind. You quiet the negative and activate the positive part of your brain. 

Many programme participants start noticing positive changes within just 4-5 weeks. You might find you feel less stressed and anxious, more focused and clear-headed, and better able to handle setbacks without getting stuck.

People often share that they feel more confident, more resilient, and more compassionate with themselves and others. Relationships improve, productivity goes up, and life just feels easier and more enjoyable.

Absolutely! Going through the programme with your business partner, spouse, family member, or a friend often makes the experience even more impactful — and more fun!

When you bring your partner to do the Mental Fitness Programme with you, we’ll provide both of you with a 10% discount. Simply email [email protected] and let us know that you’re taking the programme together. We’ll send you a discount Coupon Code.

Mental Fitness has powerful ripple effects across both personal and professional life. When you strengthen your mental fitness together, relationships deepen, communication improves, and challenges become opportunities.

If you're considering the programme for your team, have a look at the Mental Fitness for Teams page.

Yes. We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee to take the risk off your shoulders.

If, during the first 14 days, you feel the curriculum, materials, exclusive app, coaching, or support don’t meet your expectations, you can request a full refund. We will process it and close your access to the programme and the PQ app. No hard feelings.

That said, if you're already feeling hesitant and think a guarantee is essential before you begin, it might be a sign the timing or fit isn’t quite right — and that’s perfectly OK.

Better to wait until you’re ready than to force it. It saves us both time and unnecessary hassle.

Positive Intelligence® or PQ® is a science-based framework that helps you build Mental Fitness by strengthening the part of your brain that serves you (the Sage) and quieting the part that sabotages you (the Saboteurs).

Developed by Stanford lecturer Shirzad Chamine, Positive Intelligence draws from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, performance science, and behavioural research. It focuses on simple daily practices that rewire your brain to respond to challenges with calm, clarity, and creativity — rather than stress, self-doubt, or frustration.

It’s not about “thinking positive.” It’s about building the mental muscles that allow you to lead yourself and others more effectively, even under pressure.

The Mental Fitness approach is grounded in research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, positive psychology, and performance science. It brings together insights from over 500 evidence-based studies.

A great starting point is the New York Times best-selling book Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, which outlines the core framework and research behind the programme. The book has been translated into over 20 languages and has been used by leaders at Google, Stanford, and countless high-performing teams around the world.