Mental health starts
with mental fitness.
What is mental fitness?
Mental fitness is your capacity to think, feel, and act in alignment with your values.
Just like physical fitness, this capacity can be improved through training. We build it through mental reps, these are small, intentional actions that strengthen and rewire the brain over time.
This consistent practice improves your ability to handle stress, regulate emotions, and make intentional choices, which are all essential for long term mental health.
At MFC, we create spaces for people to build their mental fitness through community events and (soon) educational programs - making it a normal part of how people live, grow, and connect everyday.
Just like going to the gym for your body, we believe training your mind should be a regular part of life - not just something you turn to when things fall apart.
About Us
The Mental Fitness Collective (MFC) is a registered charity working to make mental fitness a normal part of everyday life.
Founded in September 2023 by Hunter Karam, MFC began with small community gatherings built around movement, reflection, and real connection. It was created to address a simple truth: while physical health is proactively maintained, mental health is often only addressed when people face struggles, challenges, or crisis.
As a result, many people lack the skills to regulate emotions, manage stress, respond with intention, and connect meaningfully with others.
We believe improving mental health starts with building mental fitness - the capacity to think, feel, and act in alignment with the person you want to be. Like physical fitness, this capacity can be developed through consistent training and practice.
At MFC, our weekly events continue to offer space for connection and growth, while our NOTA events create larger moments of shared experience and meaningful relationships.
We are also developing educational programs that teach the science and daily practice of mental fitness. These are being co-designed with professionals from our advisory board, including clinical psychologists, neuroscientists, counsellors, educators, and individuals with varying lived experience - ensuring everything we offer is grounded in evidence and real-world relevance.
Too often, mental health conversations are filled with clinical terms, overwhelming advice, or language that doesn’t reflect how people actually live and feel. At MFC, we’re committed to making mental fitness understandable, relatable, and usable for all humans, no matter their background, education, or experience.
Mental fitness isn’t just about avoiding struggle, it’s about building the capacity to truly thrive. To think, feel, and act in alignment with the person you want to be. That’s the future we’re creating - together.
The Directory
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Lifeline exists to ensure that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone.
Life Line is a 24/7 Crisis Service
Call: 13 11 14
Text: 0477 13 11 14
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Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free (even from a mobile), confidential 24/7 online and phone counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25
Call: 1800 55 1800
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Suicide Call Back Service offers free professional 24/7 telephone counselling support to people at risk of suicide, concerned about someone at risk, bereaved by suicide and people experiencing emotional or mental health issues.
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Ask Izzy is a website that connects people who are in crisis with the services they need right now and nearby.
It connects those in need wirth housing, a meal, financial support, family violence support, counselling and much more.
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