We are Aleksandra and Christoph Marchewicz, the developers of Look Inside and the founders of mend-o. Our own experience showed us how important mental health is in our hectic world, and how often it gets overlooked. This passion project grew out of that.
Our vision is a world where mental health is discussed openly, supported as a matter of course and valued. Often one honest conversation is enough to feel less alone. That is what we stand for: Shared Mental Health. We make mental health accessible, entertaining and above all something you can experience together.
Look Inside combines psychologically grounded content with a board game experience that stands on its own and keeps you hooked. It is created in dialogue with the people it is about.
The psychological content is developed together with professionals and translated into concrete situations, stories and game mechanics that everyone can follow.
More than 200 people have already played the game, among them people with own experience of mental health crisis, those close to them and professionals from psychology and the board game industry. Their different perspectives feed into the development all the time.
One thing is at the heart of all of it: the experience between you at the table. Look Inside creates a space that encourages empathy, opens new perspectives and makes conversations about mental health easier, with no pressure to share anything personal.
We get that question a lot. The answer starts in a time when we found out for ourselves what it is like when your mental health is down. From both sides: as those affected and as those close to them.
You may know the feeling. Something is not right with you. But you cannot find the words and you worry about being a burden. Or you are on the other side, watching someone who matters to you struggle. You want to help, but you do not know how. Without crowding them. Without saying the wrong thing.
Back then, what we were missing was an easy way in that we could take together.
So we decided to take it into our own hands and changed our careers. From engineers we became experts by experience and game developers. We talked with people affected, with their families and with professionals from psychology and board game development, we read our way into the studies, and we worked with what we had learned as engineers: never letting go until something really works.
Look Inside is our passion project. It is the game we would have wanted for ourselves back then. No self-help guide, no heavy homework, just an evening that leaves you understanding each other a little better.
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