Games for Emotional & Mental Health Lab ♢ Disrupting how mental health interventions are Designed, Delivered and Experienced♢

Canada & The Netherlands
Joined September 2016
Check out this INCREDIBLY inspiring project founded and led by my brilliant friend and unmatched colleague, @chwoodiwiss . It's in that sweet, rare spot of social innovation focused on flourishing that combines art, design, and science to change the way we approach healing. 😍
chuffed to see the Social Healing Project go live — an inspiring exploration into loss, healing, narrative, and community by @chwoodiwiss. socialhealingproject.com/
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I’m psyched to share what we’re building for young people navigating their transition to “adulthood”. Summary: liminal-learning.com/ To start, here’s the set of 7 principles upon which the experiences we’re designing for those youth are based. LFG🚀💜 pod.fo/e/1fb5e1
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Would love to hear from you! It’s an exciting new phase in our work, arguably the most important: the actual roll out to the kids who would benefit most! It’s been a LONG road and I’d love to help others interested in designing games that REALLY work for kids’ mental health.
📣 Curious about how we created our most effective game against anxiety, #MindLight? Finally, a publicly available version is coming out this fall, and to celebrate we are hosting a special #GEMHSession! Send in your questions before Wed Oct 4th, and we'll answer them! 📨
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Here at #ECP2023 w/ Hanneke Scholten, representing @GEMH_Lab and presenting our work, together with the amazing Linda Tip, @Rebecca_Grist and @PsychBrighton. But.. massive admiration for all who are persevering in the face of lay-offs, pay cuts & failing policies. #aveBrightonUni
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1 Year ago today @yoanneke and I organized the GEMH Game Gallery, a one-day event at @TiVre_Utrecht aaaalll about #games and #wellbeing. The journey was REAL, but we’d do it all over again (even bigger 😎). Here’s a throwback! 💜 youtu.be/trvq2GroA5M @GEMH_Lab
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Dear #PhDs of the world. PhDs can be stressful times, and just that bit of overview can make a big diff. So I’m making a @NotionHQ template for PhDs to navigate their journey, based on my own XP (and yours). Any interest? And what would you need in it? #phdlife #AcademicChatter
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Come join us tomorrow for a wide ranging discussion on (among many other topics) how to apply right-brain wisdom to new forms of inter-generational collaborations .
Free online talk Iain McGilchrist and Isabela Granic Intergenerational Wisdom for A World Unravelling Wednesday April 26th (online), 7pm UK / 8pm CEST, 2pm EST, 11 am PST @Perspecteeva @Jonathan_Rowson Follow this link to register systems-souls-society.com/ia…
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Replying to @GEMH_Lab
@GEMH_Lab 's thoughtful social media expert, @Gryphire , weighs in on the problems with Jonathan Haidt's takes on social media research. She's measured and cautious, as required, but these issues need to be raised and talked about way more than they are gemhlab.com/blog/social-medi…
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What would it be like to chat with a chatbot based on your social media data? How would this be different from conversing with models like ChatGPT or GPT-3? Check out my workshop with @Gryphire in #Copenhagen and online! tinyurl.com/49c5c8xm
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So happy to reminded of this panel and the brilliant Srinija Srinivasan: “the arts are our most potent technologies that humans have come up with”✨
At @FlourishingConf, @loove_labs talks about ideas for music distribution that are akin to the farm-to-table movement. Hear more insights on how we can build conditions for #humanflourishing into arts & tech in this session w @philipcball & @PlayNiceInst: templetonworldcharity.org/bl…
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April 15th and 17th @mirabelle_jones and I will be running a hybrid #finetuning #GPT #workshop study in #Copenhagen! Learn how to train a GPT model on your own #socialmedia data! Programmers ánd non-programmers welcome. 💙 Limited places available! mirabellejones.com/create-yo… #AI
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Children/teens will get their developmental needs met (the same ones they’ve had for millennia) however they can. We’ve failed them offline so they go searching for those experiences online. How about some science? A review of some of the scientific data? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Developmental scientists have been combatting this interpretation for ages, it’s exhausting. The COMMENTS on this give me some hope. We’ve destroyed most public spaces or made it illegal to hang in them, we give insane homework, & overschedule kids, but no. It’s smartphones.
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In roughly 10 minutes our newest #GEMHSession goes live, with my wonderful colleagues @yoanneke and @KenKoontz17 who will be chatting with @ConnectedCamps' Matthew Kreutter about using #Minecraft to help young people #grieve! With chat Q&A! Tune in here: youtu.be/df2EUCnLyqc
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Tune in for an interview this Friday with our Product Director, Matthew Kreutter! 🙌
Friday Jan 27th, 4PM CET you can tune in live to a new #GEMHsession!👀Our guest is Matthew Kreutter, product director for @ConnectedCamps. Together we will discuss the potential of online, play-based community spaces (e.g. in Minecraft) to support grieving youth.
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Today I’m representing @GEMH_Lab and visiting the @NLAICoalitie’s 1st national conf on ethically, legally and socially responsible #AI in the Netherlands at the @BL_SSC campus! Awesome event. But these things struck me re: the seemingly dominant mindset in human-centric AI: 🧵
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🎮TWCF grantee @PlayNiceInst @GEMH_Lab share how their #videogame controlled by neurofeedback can be as effective as traditional talk therapy in helping kids manage & overcome #anxiety symptoms. Learn more in the video blog post: templetonworldcharity.org/bl…
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Last week, our core @GEMH_Lab team organized a retreat (w/ massive help from amazing @Chr_sM!) for designers, scientists and developers about creating tech-for-wellbeing solutions that are rooted in the necessary merging of science and design. It was intense but a blast! 🤯😄 1/3
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Oh wow! It’s out! We at @GEMH_Lab were incredibly fortunate to be interviewed by the talented storyteller @rsergay for this podcast. This is probably the first time our team has spoken together about the decade of research & design we’ve done on games for mental health.🚀
We hope you're inspired by our new podcast episode, on breakthroughs in #gaming that can help students learn to manage and move through #anxiety. Coming tomorrow! 🎙️ ✅ From @taviagilbert w @rsergay & @TempletonWorld - #podcast @KenKoontz17 @PlayNiceInst @ScholtenHannes
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If you've got time to kill at Utrecht central station this week and you want to relax or have some fun you can try out DEEP @exploreDEEP at the @Nedfilmfestival pop-up booth between Sept 22nd-30th from 12 to 9 PM! Go check it out! 🤩 – at Mook en Middelaar, Nederland
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Monday I defended my #PhD thesis about #socialmedia and #wellbeing at the @Radboud_Uni! ⚔️😎 Many thanks to my dear family, friends and colleagues, as well as my paranymphs (@yoanneke and Maartje!) and of course my awesome boss ladies @PlayNiceInst and @AnnaLichtwarck... 1/2
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