Mobile Adaptive Resilience Training

Wellness mobile app providing psychometric and autonomic assessment (heart rate variability); engagement and relaxation training. Training is provided through a combination of audio breath pacing at individually optimised rate, real time feedback, and bilateral sound. App can be downloaded from app store, and the Bluetooth oximeter can be shipped worldwide.

Mental resilience is based on emotional health, which in turn depends on the flexibility of the autonomic to adjust the level of arousal of the organism to the external demand. When under pressure or in crisis, the autonomic nervous system fixes on a fight and flight or freeze and flop response, and sustained fixation can  lead to poor physical and emotional health (e.g: depression, anxiety, stress) and/or undermines good judgement and decision making in critical situations via inhibition of the activity of the prefrontal cortex. 

The adaptive resilience app trains the organisms via breath pacing at its individualised resonant frequency into a physiological state of flow and engagement, where sympathetic and parasympathetic activity are simultaneously enhanced and high heart rate variability (SDNN) is being achieved. The training is called resonant frequency training, as it aligns the rhythms of heart rate, blood pressure and breath to achieve resonance and thereby increase rhythm and flexibility. This is a physiological state of sustainable peak performance and engagement that helps to effectively reduce the negative impact of pressure and stress on physical and emotional health and brain performance. In studies resonant frequency training and increased HRV have shown to be effective in reducing stress, anxiety and depression, and to enhance mental performance and social connectivity. Transferable skills are being trained that not only optimise autonomic and brain response to challenging circumstances, but also build physical, emotional and mental resilience. 

The Relaxation Training of the app also provides support for winding down and relaxing for full recovery. 

The solution offers assessment and training of physiological and mental resilience training via a mobile app.

These trainings empower people anywhere in the world to improve their overall brain health and fitness and mental and emotional well-being. 

The psychometric and the autonomic assessment helps diagnosing mental health risks and reduced resilience. Clinical support can then be accessed early, if required.

The proposed solution, although based on psychological and medical research is a wellness solution. 

This solution is mobile, global accessible, can be supported by online workshops. It combines physical and emotional wellness assessments with physiological training solutions, such as engagement and relaxation training.

The assessment of individual resonant frequency of the user every 200 training minutes and the defaulting of breath pacing in the training to the assessed pace is unique and enhances the efficacy of the training. The combination with bilateral sound and real-life feedback enhances the efficacy of the training programme. Mental resilience and fitness is being built by training the autonomic nervous system to optimally and effectively respond to external challenges.  

Increase physical, psychological and mental adaptability of the user group. The app and oximeter can be easily accessed through app store and online order. The target group are life and wellnesses coaches, coaching psychologists, fitness coaches, remedial teachers and sport coaches. The app can be cascaded down to the end user which are pupils +16, students, professionals and athletes. The app will also be available to the targeted end users directly.

Track download i the app store - 500,000 people downloading the app worldwide

Anonymous data collection and collaboration with research institute - Improved autonomic and psychometric data

Auditing feedback - Positive user feed back

Combination of assessment and training; tracking of progress; optimising resonant frequency training by assessing the individual resonant frequency and defaulting 200 training minutes to that pace; integration of audio breath pacing and bilateral sound to stimulate a rhythm between the left and right brain; combing physiological engagement and relaxation training.

Resonant frequency training imitates and trains the physiology of engagement and stainable peak performance, where rhythm and overall activity of both opposite parts of the autonomic nervous system are enhanced. Our app offers an inexpensive solution that can help a large number of people to develop their mental resilience, enhance performance and protect their health under duress. 

A simple basic version of the app will be made available for free, providing basic resonant frequency and relaxation training and psychometric assessment. Advanced functionality will contribute towards individualising of training, tracking of results and health assessment. Advanced functionality, which is easy to use, will require the purchase of an oximeter, which will cost approximately Euro 40. No other extra costs will to the user. 

Making simple version of app available via iTunes and Android app store. Advanced version upgrade. Providing short films on youtube to demonstrate functionality of the app. Publishing a book on Adaptive Resilience that demonstrates the benefits of the app (end of 2017). Publications in magazines, news paper articles, events to advertise the use of the app. Offering resilience workshops online and face-to-face around the app. 

Collecting user data and feedback for continuous user improvement. 

Independent research is being conduct on the HRV training functionality of the app in the UK prison services.

Further research should be conducted for example on healthy shift workers (nurses).

Long term follow ups in clients 

Funding for extensive advertising on social media

PR events with professionals 

Funding for continuous product development, e.g. extension of app by integrating psychological training exercises 

Funding for networking the app with online training solutions 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecz.stresslocatorpro

http://www.adaptive-resilience.co.uk

Solve can assist in securing sufficient funding to make our solution a global success. Solve may be able to also match us with likeminded organisations, helping to integrate our resilience enhancing technology into a multidisciplinary approach towards mental resilience. Solve may help to find partner institutions for ongoing research into the relationship between brain science and autonomic nervous system, health promotion, resilience and performance management. We believe that our integrated approach towards developing personal resilience, change and engagement complements well the approach of Otto Sharma and Peter Senge towards organisational resilience as taught at the MIT. 

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