On Paper, In Person, On Screen

Understanding the pressures working on the modern mind is a starting point for the development of a practical joined-up response. Psynapp is our contribution, a model for Experience Studies, which when practiced helps maintain a balanced mind, brings clarity and perspective, and helps connects us to deeper ideas about who we are and how we are living, questions vital to our age.

Getting this model to people means making it useful in the places they already learn, live and work. A teenager might try a breathing practice at school to manage how they feel. A parent might use the model to support their child, learn something about themselves, then share an approach with their own parents. The same model could become a self-help book, teacher training or a talk at a philosophy festival. To reach enough people, it also needs to be available digitally.

Personal digital systems are now embedded in how people learn, think and seek support. We can help protect children by limiting their exposure, but stepping away is harder for those of us whose routines and habits already revolve around these systems.

Our strategy is to work on both sides of this relationship: developing human capacities through Psynapp and education, finding ways to share that information, and help seed these ideas into peoples lives, habits and practices. We are also partnering with technologist to develop Stormport, and look at building private bounded networks of support designed around psychological safety and human development. These can serve as substitutes for existing systems, while also offering value in their own right as simple, accessible guides to Experience Studies.