Play your way to lifelong wellbeing
“Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. It involves behaviours, thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone.”
Ann Masten, Ph.D. (Professor at the Institute of Child Development)
Bounce Not Break is the latest addition to stem4’s broad suite of mental health products and resources already accessed by over 4 million young people worldwide.
Bounce Not Break is an immersive, gamified, mental wellbeing and resilience platform for primary school children. Designed by clinical psychologists, teachers and students, the interactive interface teaches the skills young people require to overcome life’s inevitable challenges and setbacks.
Resilience is the ability to adapt well to adversity and requires having the mental, emotional and behavioural flexibility and ability to adjust to both internal and external demands. Building it is similar to constructing a ship that will sail rough seas. This psychological capacity needs to be cultivated before crises occur, like building and reinforcing the ship on land rather than mid storm.
Bounce Not Break achieves exactly this, using a diverse range of gamified ‘missions’, suiting a variety of learning styles and enriching any existing PSHE syllabus. Designed to offer maximum flexibility to cater for a busy curriculum, it requires minimal teacher input and enables students to direct their own learning.
Initially designed for students in Year 5 and Year 6, not only does Bounce Not Break effectively teach students important life skills, but it offers a way for the student and teacher to identify and track levels of student wellbeing.
“Whilst all of us can work through challenges and face stress, we may not always be prepared to know how to do this or emerge unscathed. With help and practise at an early age on changing our mindset, regulating emotions, learning adaptive behaviours and positive interactions, the better children and young people become at dealing with life’s setbacks. The ability to ‘bounce through, around and forward’ is about being resilient and the key to mental strength, focussing on what helps a person harness the best in themselves and moving them towards what makes them happy.”
Dr Nihara Krause MBE, CEO & Chief Clinical Officer of stem4
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