Category Archives: education

Fika – App for Emotional Fitness + AI Social and Dating App

“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. Fika is inspired by Scandinavian culture and draws on scientific evidence from Sports Psychology, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Positive… Read More »

The Hi, How Are You Project

The Hi, How Are You Project is a non-profit organization inspiring new conversations around mental health issues by funding and creating media content, projects and events. The Foundation provides a platform for the exchange of ideas and education on mental well-being. The mission is to remove the stigma and shame around mental health, so people… Read More »

How Can We Grow Emotionally? (video)

Emotional growth and the importance of connection and self-expression. “From our earliest days, all of us are set on a path towards physical growth and maturity. What is less well known is that there are forces within us that – in comparable ways – push us towards emotional growth and maturity. Throughout our lives, sometimes… Read More »

World Mental Health Day – October 10, 2018

World Mental Health Day seeks to raise awareness of mental health illnesses while educating the population and mobilizing efforts to support mental health. Mental health, which includes a person’s emotional, psychological and social well-being, has become increasingly important in recent decades as an estimated 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. In 1992, the World… Read More »

Whole-School Mental Health Promotion

“Schools that are highly engaged in whole-school emotional and social health promotion are likely to be more effective in providing for the psychosocial and educational needs of their whole student community.” A paper has been published that describes the development of a survey designed for use in research and in educational practice that measures the… Read More »