
Boulder Youth Emotion by Design Initiative
Creating Emotionally Resilient Landscapes for Children
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.