“Exercise keeps us physically fit, but what about our Emotional Fitness?”
Fika is an app designed in the UK to help students be emotionally fit by developing skills for resilience, coping, active listening, and healthy relationships.
“The world is emotionally out of shape. We all know the benefits of regular physical exercise, but what about the benefits of regular emotional exercise?” said Nick Bennett, founder of the app, on University Mental Health Day.
Bennett says it’s important to shift the mental health narrative from negative to positive. He says our emotional muscles need just as much training as our physical muscles and we need to use positive terminology when addressing these issues.
The belief is that essential emotional skills need exercise and that apps such as Fika can help students address mental health issues before they escalate to substance abuse or self-harm.
As of this writing, Fika is currently in closed trials and not yet available for download. However, interested parties can send e-mail to hello@fika.community.
See the website: https://www.fika.community/
UPDATE: This post about Fika, an app for emotional fitness, has been here since March 31, 2019. Now, five years later, the URL for fika.community results in an error page. We noticed it a couple weeks ago and see it’s still the case.
However, we’ve learned about a different Fika, Asia’s first female-focused AI social and dating app – the #2 dating app in Asia. Yes, AI as in Artificial Intelligence… for real relationships. See FikaConnects.com