As an NGO, we believe in the empowerment of community members and in tailoring our activities to the needs of the local community. Our Brain Awareness activities helped us with these goals in Ghana and Kenya. After returning from Ghana and Kenya, NGO members also started the university group Brain Awareness at TU Dresden, many NGO members‘ alma mater. The university group, led by On The Move e.V. co-director Paul, took modules of Brain Awareness activities and delivered them in-person in local schools. Over the course of many months, the content and approach were iterated and tailored to the needs of our target groups. One of our last iterations was a Mental Health meets Design Thinking school workshop that was awared by Stiftung Bildung und Gesellschaft. The aim was always the same: to empower students and teachers regarding their mental wellbeing and to learn from and with them about mental health challenges and opportunities. Over time, our team realized that there was a need for more than what we could offer – building on our previous work, the idea of a low-threshold Mental Health First Aid course was born in 2018. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions on the implementation of our hands-on activities, a sub-team of Brain Awareness university group members, including three TU Dresden psychology students (Judith Herbers, Theresa Geithel, and Julia Kirsten) was formed. The goal of the sub-team was to develop a comprehensive Mental Health First Aid format that could be implemented online (during COVID-19) and in-person in the future. After many months of research, course design, and materials development, with numerous iterations and prototypes, the first public courses were launched in 2020. Given the success of the launch and the promising results of the first courses as well as the leadership of Julia, Theresa and Judith, the university group started to focus more on mental health first aid activities rather than on Brain Awareness activities alone. It renamed itself to AufeinanderAchten („care for each other“). AufeinanderAchten continued the university group’s and our NGO’s work to destigmatize mental illness through education. We also welcomed Judith, Theresa, and Julia to our NGO team, which made it easier for us to support their endeavors logistically, administratively, networking-wise, and content-wise.