"Let’s find out what makes children healthy and do all we can to give that to them." Mister Fred Rogers (American television host, author and producer)
OUR FAIRGROUND THEMED PLATFORM HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS’ (CYP) MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH INTERACTIVE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES.
Through our core pillars of connection, creativity, wellbeing, and being playful, we aim to provide an engaging, playful environment for mental health and education professionals, such as SENDcos, counsellors and psychotherapists, to encourage young clients to embrace their playful, imaginative, creative selves, which in turn promotes positive mental health and wellbeing.
Therapy Fairground invites people to ‘be’ together in a therapeutic virtual space, discovering attractions that support and explore communication, development, self-awareness, emotional challenges and more. The Fairground can be accessed online utilising 'remote control' technology or explored whilst together IRL.
Therapy Fairground’s foundations have been collaboratively built utilising more than 20 years’ experience working in professional roles within and associated with therapeutic organisations.
There is growing evidence that games and activities facilitate individuals to engage and communicate whilst being online. The playful and imaginative activities within the Fairground have been created applying therapeutic and supervisory experiences supporting children, young people, families and professionals. The Fairground platform has been designed for the professional to ‘host’ the client’s visit, helping to keep therapeutic containment, whilst intuitively following the client’s lead. Before launching, the platform was trialled by various professionals. Further developments were incorporated following experiences and feedback from all involved.
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Therapy Fairground is a non-profit organisation. All money generated goes back into the running costs and development of the platform (games/activities/resources).
We hope to develop our platform to reach more children and young people, supporting their mental health, whilst enabling professionals to...
