Boulder Youth Emotion by Design Initiative

Overview:

The Boulder Youth Emotion by Design Initiative represents a groundbreaking approach to urban park design, focusing on fostering emotional resilience and well-being among children and families. By transforming urban spaces into nurturing landscapes, this initiative aims to build a profound connection to nature, encouraging children to explore a wide spectrum of emotions and develop distress tolerance skills.

Our Role:

• Activity Development: Designing nature-based activities that promote emotional exploration and resilience.

• Intervention Design: Crafting interventions focused on enhancing emotional literacy and distress tolerance among children.

• Implementation & Training: Providing comprehensive training to Boulder Parks and Recreation staff for effective facilitation.

• Evaluation: Establishing evaluation procedures to measure and optimize the impact of the interventions.

Impact:

This initiative not only aims to enrich the emotional lives of Boulder's youth but also contributes to the growing evidence of nature's role in nurturing mental health.