A game about mental health does not reach people on its own. For that we need partners: some who try Look Inside out in their work and help shape it, others who give the subject visibility and open doors.
Pick your area, and you will find what working together can look like in practice.
You give people language for what is going on inside them. You make sure mental health is talked about more openly, that people feel less alone and understand each other better. That is our goal too. With Look Inside we want to create a new space for it: playful, shared and with no need for anyone to talk about themselves. The game invites people to understand mental health challenges better, to take on other perspectives and to learn helpful ways of dealing with them.
We are looking for people who share our mission: psychoeducators, content creators, editorial teams and everyone who gives mental health a voice. Every post, every recommendation and every conversation helps us bring Look Inside to the people it can make a real difference for.
What we like best is meeting you in person, easily done online or on site if you prefer. We introduce the project and give you the chance to try Look Inside out yourselves. If a meeting does not work out, we are happy to send you the prototype.
And if you then feel that Look Inside fits you and your community, we would love you to give the project visibility. Everything you need for that, images, background on the project and answers to your questions, comes from us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Look Inside works as a low-threshold way in wherever a conversation first has to get going: in one-to-one work, in group settings and on the ward during the first few days. The rules of the game give a clear frame. That makes it possible to talk about mental health challenges, different perspectives and helpful ways of dealing with them, with no need for anyone to talk about themselves.
We are looking for pilot partners who will try our board game Look Inside out in their own day-to-day work: a few rounds with patients, in a group or with the team, in whatever setting works well for you.
We bring the prototype and all the materials, introduce you to the game and stay available for questions. If you like, we also offer a short workshop for your team.
If you are open to trying something new, we would be glad of your feedback. How can the game fit well into your day-to-day work? What is still missing? Which materials or which support would be helpful for your work? That way we can adapt Look Inside as closely as possible to what practices and clinics need.
We look forward to talking. A short online meeting is enough to see whether it fits for you.
We have experienced ourselves how much support and understanding can matter, both when you are affected yourself and when you are close to someone who is. At the same time we have seen how hard it can be to talk about mental strain and to really grasp what is going on inside another person. The idea for Look Inside grew out of exactly those experiences.
With Look Inside we want to create another way in: playful, shared and low-threshold. The game helps people make sense of mental health challenges, take on other perspectives and learn helpful ways of dealing with them. In doing so we combine our personal motivation with high professional standards: we develop Look Inside together with experts from psychology and psychotherapy. A completed pilot study also shows significant positive effects of the game.
We want to work with foundations, associations, self-help organisations and initiatives that share our mission and that support and reach people around mental health.
We would be glad to meet you, easily and without fuss, online or on site, and to show you Look Inside. You can try the game out yourselves and form your own picture of it. If you are then convinced that it fits your work and the people you reach, very different forms of collaboration are possible. What matters to us is that they suit you and create real value for the people you are there for.
Then write to us. We look forward to getting to know you and thinking together about what we can set in motion.
You work to strengthen health before people fall ill, building knowledge, skills and opportunities early on that support mental health. The social environment plays an important part in this: studies show that supportive social relationships can act as a protective factor for mental health. Even when people are already living with a mental illness, well-informed relatives and people close to them can be an important support in the recovery process, which is why involving them is also recommended in care guidelines.
This is exactly where Look Inside comes in. With our board game we want to give people a low-threshold, playful way into mental health. They learn to understand mental health challenges better, to switch perspectives and to discover helpful ways of dealing with them. Look Inside is deliberately aimed at more than those affected alone. It is just as much for friends, families, colleagues and other people around them.
Whether this approach really changes anything was something we wanted to examine scientifically from the start rather than simply assume. That is why we evaluated Look Inside in a pilot study. The completed study shows significant positive changes in the areas examined and gives us first scientific indications of the potential a playful approach holds for building mental health literacy.
We want to work with health insurers to find out where Look Inside can reach people in a meaningful way and complement existing prevention programmes. Different routes are possible, from using the game within prevention programmes to guided workshop formats and projects in schools and other everyday settings.
We would be glad to meet you, easily and without fuss, online or on site, to show you Look Inside and to learn more about which topics, target groups and prevention approaches are currently relevant for you. You can try the game out yourselves and form your own picture of it. If we then see potential together, we can consider which form of collaboration can create real value for your policyholders.
Then write to us. We look forward to exploring new routes for mental health prevention together.
You accompany young people through a stage of life in which pressure to perform, questions about the future, social comparison and constant digital presence all loom large. At the same time you want to give them more than knowledge. You want to give them the skills to handle strain, understand others better and treat each other well.
With Look Inside we want to create a new way in for exactly that. In our cooperative board game, young people engage with mental health through play, switch perspectives and get to know helpful ways of dealing with mental health challenges, without having to talk about their own experience. Playing together builds mental health literacy, and it builds empathy, exchange and cooperation as well.
Together we can look at how Look Inside can fit your institution and your goals, for example in workshops, project days or existing programmes around mental health and social skills.
We would be glad to meet you, easily and without fuss, online or on site, to show you the game and to hear what you want to achieve for your pupils or students. If we see potential together, we will develop a format that really suits you.
Then write to us. We look forward to strengthening mental health and social skills in education together.
You want to create a working environment where people perform well and also feel understood, supported and safe. Mental strain plays an ever larger part in this: for wellbeing in the team, for cooperation and communication, and for absence rates and keeping employees long term.
In our survey in a corporate setting, one thing stood out. Employees want to understand mental strain better. What happens to a person when they are not doing well mentally? How can I react? What helps, and what perhaps does not? This is exactly where Look Inside comes in.
With our cooperative board game we make mental health something you experience together. Employees switch perspectives, engage with mental health challenges and get to know helpful ways of dealing with them, without having to talk about personal experience. At the same time, playing together strengthens empathy, communication and teamwork.
Look Inside can be used in workshops, health days, team formats or programmes around mental health and people development, for example. That way the game can help build understanding for mental strain, make conversations in the company easier and strengthen social skills in the team.
Which format suits your company, your employees and your existing programmes best is something we can develop together. We align how the game is used with your goals and your circumstances.
Then get in touch with us. We are happy to show you how Look Inside can be used at your company and which formats make sense for it.
The characters in the game and their stories were created with psychotherapist Przemek Mućko. The development continues together with experts from psychology and psychotherapy. They played the game, gave us feedback, and we changed it accordingly. That is how Look Inside has grown over many rounds.
Professionals, people with lived experience and their relatives have tried Look Inside out and shown us what holds up, among them psychologists, game designers and editorial teams from the board game industry.
Look Inside was examined in a pilot study at Heidelberg University, supervised by Prof. Peter Kirsch. The completed study shows positive effects in the areas examined.
