MindMaze: Strengthen the mental resilience of your students

' MindMaze ' is a collaborative game about dealing with challenging situations and the resilient tips they can use to strengthen their mental well-being.

Make it clear in an active and experiential way that it is okay not to always feel okay.

The players also get to know different aid organizations during the game. In this way, not only mental problems are discussed, but the game also contributes to their prevention.

Goals

• discussing mental problems;
• gain insight into how to deal with difficult situations and learn about coping mechanisms;
• getting to know aid organizations;
• preventive work on mental well-being;
• dare to talk;
• learning to listen;
• dealing with emotions, daring to express emotions, recognizing emotions;
• working on problem-solving skills;
• identifying the qualities of others and discovering them in yourself;
• learning to see from a different perspective (empathic ability);
• working on self-confidence by working together (helping each other to complete assignments);
• asking for and offering help.

Game description

Each team is responsible for a character who is not feeling well. They do not yet know the cause or circumstances, they discover them through the game.

The characters' inner quest is visually represented by a maze. It is up to the teams to reach the exit of the maze together through assignments around the themes: daring to talk, listening to each other, asking for help and offering help.

After each assignment, part of the maze is unlocked. During their journey through the maze, the teams collect information about their characters and discover which organizations they can contact with their problems or questions.

Will the teams be able to reach the exit and identify the characters' insecurities?

Development and production by De Aanstokerij vzw, with support from the Flemish Government.