MindShifting: A Breakthrough in How We Learn, Lead, and Grow
Taru Viitanen
Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) are navigating a growing challenge: incoming students bring increasingly diverse levels of foundational and general skills, while institutions are expected to offer stronger early support with fewer resources. At the same time, many learners hold a familiar belief shaped by meritocratic culture—that academic achievement alone should guarantee employability and readiness for working life.
Meanwhile, UAS educators are looking for scalable, humane, and effective ways to strengthen the inner skills that help students succeed: emotional regulation, adaptability, reflective thinking, and the ability to collaborate across cultures and unfamiliar situations.
What if every student could access the mental tools to stay calm under pressure, think creatively in uncertainty, and use their own executive function to thrive?
That vision is at the heart of MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain, a new AI-supported learning experience built to strengthen students’ core capabilities from day one—supporting their well-being, employability, and ability to grow into resilient, reflective professionals.
Rethinking Personal Development for Education
Created in collaboration between 3DBear and international author-coach Mitch Weisburgh on AI-ready learning management system onEdu by Mobie, MindShifting brings science-based self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and resilience training into the context of higher education. It isn’t a traditional online course. It’s a guided process where learners explore how their minds work and how awareness can turn reaction into reflection, and reflection into growth.
Author-Coach Mitch Weisburgh
Built around UAS’ core competence frameworks, the program strengthens key skills that every modern curriculum demands:
Learning to learn through metacognition and flexible thinking.
Working life readiness through empathy, feedback, and stress management.
Ethical awareness and sustainable decision-making.
Multicultural collaboration and communication across perspectives.
Creative problem-solving and anticipatory development.
Each lesson connects psychology with practice, helping learners notice their patterns, manage emotion, and lead themselves with purpose.
A Safe, Interactive Space for Growth
At the core of MindShifting are thirty AI mentors that simulate real conversations in a psychologically safe space. Learners can discuss ideas, emotions, or challenges freely, without fear of being judged or graded. Every dialogue adapts to the learner’s responses, mirroring the empathy and curiosity of a skilled human mentor.
These mentor interactions are complemented by reflective exercises and practical tools that guide students from insight to action. The result is an experience that feels personal, engaging, and deeply relevant to both study and life.
MindShifting AI-avatar
From Knowledge to Transformation
MindShifting turns insight into practice:
Learners stop reacting from old habits and start choosing wiser responses.
They recognize automatic thought patterns and rewrite unhelpful stories.
They build calm, confidence, and curiosity—the hallmarks of lifelong learning.
An Invitation to Educators
MindShifting is already being adopted by forward-thinking higher education institutions across Finland. It offers a ready-made pathway to strengthen transversal skills, student well-being, and leadership capacity—all in a format that scales.
Ready to see it in action?
Explore MindShifting and start your free trial at:
👉 https://www.3dbear.io/mindshifting
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the program further, you can always reach out to Tatja Kekarainen, Sales Director, at tatja@3dbear.fi.
