Build Confidence, Resilience and Emotional Skills Through Play
Turn effective clinical skills into everyday strengths
How The Playground Works
Helping Your Child Build Skills for Life
Evolving Play combines evidence-informed strategies with engaging digital play to help children build confidence, emotional regulation and resilience.
Through personalised journeys and interactive experiences, children practise real-world skills they can use at home, at school and when challenges arise.
Developed with clinical oversight from Clinical Psychologist Steven Albert and supported by ongoing evaluation and implementation research with Associate Professor David Lim (UTS).
1 – Tell us how you’re feeling or the challenge you’re facing to create a personalised Practitioner workout.
2 – Understand the actions you can take and the skills that will help you most right now.
3 – Play a range of games designed specifically to build the clinical skills of value to you.
4 – Easily understand the impact of your actions on your wellbeing, your skill development progress and how you’re helping your brain build a reliable routine.
Why It Works
Bridging the access gap
We translate complex research and validated therapies into simple tools you can use today.
Moments of opportunity
Challenge and development open windows when your brain is ready to learn—Evolving Play turns them into growth.
Built by a global community
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Privacy & Support
Privacy is primary
Only the account holder is identifiable; all users play anonymously. No personal ID required for young or vulnerable users. Fully GDPR compliant.
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Disclaimer
Evolving Play translates academic research and clinical expertise into practice. It is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment.
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What You Get with Evolving Playground
Mental health training shouldn’t feel like homework — it should feel like play.
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Our Game-Changing Results.
Evolving Play’s research driven approach delivers measurable impact:
Improved focus
Greater self-awareness
Increased self-compassion and resilience
More confidence in facing challenges
A group of 134 students participated in our European grant study. The results showed
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Improved focus
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Improved emotional awareness
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improved self-compassion
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Found it easier to trust themselves when challenged.
What People Say About US
The program is highly successful for two reasons…When talking about mental health, youths are often shut off to the idea of exploring their feelings. But when talking about pressure in your favourite sport, the boundaries are broken down.
This program provides a safe place for young people to explore stress and anxiety. The program is entirely practical as the young people engage in activities of high movement. The theory is discussed and then applied straight away … the research shows that young people are more likely to learn through play.”
Christopher Agostino, Headspace Physiologist
The Evolving Sport Program “provided an outlet for some of our young people struggling with their mental health to learn new skills, both mental and physical in a social, supportive and safe environment… We had very positive feedback from both attendants and their families and good engagement with the schools and University (of New South Wales).”
Sally Corry, Headspace Centre Manager
Since participating in the Evolving Play Program, we have observed positive changes in our target students, particularly increased perseverance, and the ability to manage failure.
When surveyed, students have reported feeling more confident, more resilient, and have identified strategies that they can independently use to manage anxiety in difficult situations.
This has positively impacted their participation in a range of areas. I would definitely recommend this program.”
Rebecca Price, Speech Pathologist, Lurnea High School
“Thank for your patience & efforts with Jasper this year. The last few weeks were a real breakthrough for him confidence wise. He overcame some personal challenges and this sets a really good foundation for him mentally moving forward. The feedback for him was spot on and you did a great job coaching the group.”
Kathy, Headspace customer
“The group was fantastic. I find it very hard to motivate Laura. She came home so happy and told me the best part was that she felt for the first time when doing therapy that she did not feel like a problem because it was done in a fun way, not in a room. She was really pumped and looking forward to going again.”
Jo, Headspace customer
“This was the first time Sarah said she learnt about mental health without feeling like there was something wrong with her. She really enjoyed the class and said learning through play made the training easy to apply to normal life.”
Shirley, Headspace customer
“I loved all of the class. My favourite bit was the meditation. I have been using the body anchor to help me relax when normally I feel stressed. I can’t wait to do it again. “
Jordan, Headspace participant
Ever Evolving, Always for You
Upcoming features:
Practitioner Playground Builder
Observe the Impact of your actions on physiology, stress levels and more
New game experiences
Guest practitioner programmes
Automatic access to updates
Expanded analytics
We keep learning
We keep learning. As new evidence, methods, and technologies emerge, Evolving Play integrates and updates—adding experiences that apply the best current knowledge. Our promise: agency first, privacy first, and practice over theory. Step by step, you’ll keep building the skills that help you navigate whatever challenge you’re facing—today and tomorrow.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Evolving Play acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the land where we live, learn, grow and play. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters and communities. We acknowledge the importance of Indigenous knowledge and experiences and their essential contributions to our research, resources, and communities.
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