Therapeutic Games
Gamified interventions that feel like play and work like therapy — for groups, classrooms and one-on-one sessions.
- ✦ Card games for coping skills
- ✦ Small-group SCOOT games
- ✦ Resilience challenge decks
18 resourcesExplore Category →
🧪 The Curiosity Lab
A lab you can actually wander through.
This is the discovery wing: featured resources, free things to try, apps in progress, and shelves sorted by what you're actually carrying today. Take your time. Nothing here needs a printer, a perfect mood, or a fully charged nervous system.
Explore by category
Six shelves. Pick the one that matches your day.
Each shelf opens the matching collection in the store, already filtered — so you keep the thought you walked in with.
SEL Resources
Social-emotional learning that never makes a kid feel managed. Strength-based lessons, activities and group plans.
- ✦ Full SEL lesson sets
- ✦ Small-group curricula
- ✦ Feelings & self-talk activities
44 resourcesExplore Category →
Executive Functioning Supports
Built for the getting-started part, not just the doing part. Planning, initiation, focus and follow-through scaffolds.
- ✦ Dopamine menu systems
- ✦ Gamified planners
- ✦ Task-initiation supports
22 resourcesExplore Category →
Digital Escape Rooms
Story-driven puzzle experiences that build emotional intelligence, flexible thinking and teamwork — no prep, no printing.
- ✦ Emotion regulation escape room
- ✦ Growth mindset puzzles
- ✦ Seasonal SEL escapes
16 resourcesExplore Category →
Apps & Experiments
AI-assisted companions, interactive tools and weird little digital things built in the Lab and tested in real rooms.
- ✦ Reflection & regulation companions
- ✦ Custom GPT helpers
- ✦ Interactive learning experiments
23 resourcesExplore Category →
Visual Learning Systems
Posters, visual schedules and calm-down systems for humans who think in pictures, colors and sticky notes.
- ✦ Coping skills menu posters
- ✦ Control-room focus signs
- ✦ Visual strategy charts
15 resourcesExplore Category →
Featured resources
Things people keep coming back for
Hand-picked from the catalog — tested in real classrooms, offices and kitchen tables.
$29.00App
Humanities Imagination Lab | 354 Speculative Bell Ringers for Gr 9–12 + Web App
354 speculative "what if" bell ringers for grades 9–12, plus a searchable web app, two AI thinking partners, a student reflection journal, and a CASEL-aligned SEL expansion guide.
$5.00
Lesson Or Curriculum
Vision Board Goal-Setting Kit
2 vision board worksheets, printable words & mantras, 4 coloring pages, and a full lesson plan. Creative, low-prep, and students love it.
$8.00
Therapeutic Game
The Bounce Back Challenge
Therapeutic card game for resilience, coping skills & self-talk. 1-on-1, small group, or classroom. Print-and-play. Counselor approved.
$11.00
Digital Escape Room
Emotion Regulation Escape Room
Students solve puzzles by identifying emotions & coping strategies. Self-paced, digital, no-prep. Google Slides compatible.
$7.00
Poster Or Visual Support
The Dopamine Menu System
Visual menu of brain-stimulation strategies by category: activators, identity tools, sensory supports. For brains that need a bribe to get started.
$6.00
Poster Or Visual Support
Control Room Poster Set
FOCUS, IDEAS, and DO NOT DISTURB classroom posters. Helps students identify and name their internal states. Based on the Control Room Dweller framework.
Free tools & downloads
Start with something free
No email wall, no maze. Grab one, try it this week, see if your brain likes it.
Free
Printable PDF
Optimistic Thinking & Resilience Handout
1-page printable on optimistic thinking as a resilience skill. Practical tips students can start using immediately. 8.5"×11" PDF.
Free
Digital Activity
Borrow a Brain — AI Companion
AI-assisted reflection & regulation companion for students who think better in conversation. Thought Trap Spotter, Idea Jar & grounding built in.
Free
Free
Free
Apps & interactive experiments
Digital things that go “oh, interesting”
AI-assisted companions and interactive tools built by a therapist, not a growth team.
Available · NewApp
Humanities Imagination Lab | 354 Speculative Bell Ringers for Gr 9–12 + Web App
354 speculative "what if" bell ringers for grades 9–12, plus a searchable web app, two AI thinking partners, a student reflection journal, and a CASEL-aligned SEL expansion guide.
Coming Soon
App
The Regulation Arcade
Gamified emotional regulation app. Students earn points for identifying feelings, using coping tools & completing regulation challenges.
Available
Available
Available
Available
New from the Lab
Fresh off the workbench
Recently released resources, still smelling faintly of markers and good ideas.
$29.00App
Humanities Imagination Lab | 354 Speculative Bell Ringers for Gr 9–12 + Web App
354 speculative "what if" bell ringers for grades 9–12, plus a searchable web app, two AI thinking partners, a student reflection journal, and a CASEL-aligned SEL expansion guide.
$14.00
Lesson Or Curriculum
Resiliency Group: Nautical Theme
7-week small group counseling program. Builds perseverance, resilience, and bounce-back skills. Low-prep, fun nautical theme. ASCA aligned.
$9.00
Therapeutic Game
Thought Trap Spotter Card Game
Helps teens identify cognitive distortions like Mind Reading and All-or-Nothing thinking. CBT-informed, engaging & non-clinical in feel.
$11.00
Digital Escape Room
Growth Mindset Escape Room
Puzzle adventure teaching fixed vs. growth mindset through story & discovery. ASCA aligned, Google Slides ready.
$8.00
Workbook
Quest Map Daily Planner
Gamified daily planning system that turns tasks into quests. For brains that find blank planners threatening. Includes reward system & visual tracker.
$7.00
Card Game
Coping Skills Menu Posters
Beautiful illustrated coping strategy cards organized by sensory category. Designed to actually be pretty. No clip art. No beige.
Resources by audience
Choose your path
Same library, different doors. Pick the one that sounds like you today.
I'm an EducatorClassroom-ready SEL, group plans and activities students actually ask to do.See matching resources →I'm a TherapistSession tools, games and creative interventions for engaged, ethical practice.See matching resources →I'm a Parent or CaregiverHome-friendly supports for big feelings, transitions and busy-brain mornings.See matching resources →I'm Looking for Tools for MyselfExecutive functioning scaffolds, regulation menus and grown-up-sized supports.See matching resources →
Latest Field Notes
Strange things we've noticed. Useful ones.
🌿 Regulation & Calm
When Your Brain Needs Weirdness: Why Quirky Calming Actually Works Better Than Boring
Deep breathing got an eye roll. Standing on their head? Instant calm. Here's the neuroscience of why strange, playful regulation strategies interrupt anxiety loops, stick in memory, and actually get used — when boring ones get abandoned.
Read the note →
👨👩👧 For Parents
You Are Not Raising a Problem Child. You Are Raising a Different-Brained Child.
The difference in framing is enormous. One story ends in shame spirals. The other ends in strategies. Here's how to find the door.
Read the note →🌿 Regulation & Calm
The Wall of Awful Is Real. Here's How to Build a Door Through It.
That invisible barrier of shame, past failure, and executive dysfunction has a name. And more importantly — it has a solution that doesn't involve willpower.
Read the note →🎮 Gamified Learning
Why Therapeutic Games Work Better Than Worksheets (According to Neuroscience)
It's not just more fun. There's a neurological reason engagement-first approaches actually change behavior where paper-and-pencil ones don't.
Read the note →🧠 Neurodivergent Life
Your Brain Isn't Broken. It's Built Differently.
What science says about the ADHD nervous system — and the unconventional strategies that actually work with it, not against it.
Read the note →🧠 Neurodivergent Life
My Brain Is Static and Raccoons Today (And That's Valid Data)
Some days the control room is running smoothly. Other days, three raccoons have taken the steering wheel. Here's what to do on raccoon days.
Read the note →⚡ Executive Functioning
The Dopamine Menu: Why Your Brain Needs a Bribe (And Why That's Okay)
If “just start the task” were useful advice, you'd already be doing the task. Here's what actually works for brains that struggle with initiation.
Read the note →
👩🏫 For Educators
SEL Without the Beige: Why Your Students Tune Out (And What to Do Instead)
That soft cloud feelings poster isn't failing because you taught it wrong — it's invisible. Beige SEL asks students to care about something stripped of anything worth caring about. Here's why engagement has to come before regulation, and five ways to redesign delivery (humor as co-regulation, real choice over compliance) without touching your curriculum.
Read the note →Ask Piper for help
Not sure what you need? Describe the moment.
Piper is our resource concierge. Tell her who you're supporting and what's happening — she'll walk you to the right shelf instead of handing you a catalog.
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