“Healing and Growth” (“H&G”) is adding an innovative dimension to our psychosocial healing program – the self-actualized capability to manage the potential physical and mental impacts of conflict and stress on a personal level. These are life skills that can be taught in the school setting, some to young children, all to adolescents, but each is designed to work life-long.
H&G is built on two core elements that work together to access physiological calming and resilient emotional confidence as a reflex action in the face of stress.
Digital Stress and Anxiety Management: Collaboration with Muviklabs.io and their digital breathing intervention, using patented Aural Augmented Reality technology, to enhance the body’s own calming response triggered by deep, regular, breathing. The intervention is delivered by software, to groups or individually, and uses a sound and visual engine developed from the algorithms of synchronizing heartbeat and breath to guide deep breathing. (Read more here)
Conscious Communication and Expression: A workshop-based course of game playing and skills building that teaches confidence in self-expression, empathy in hearing others, and the ability of tolerate conflicting positions, without apprehension of threat or the reflex of defense.
Both breathing and expression elements have been fully adapted into age-appropriate Arabic. MECI believes these innovations are the first of their kinds.
H&G is easily scalable for delivery and can be delivered through any child-based engagement program.