CHARLY
Chaos driven situations management retrieval systemThe challenge
Emergency responders often face high levels of stress, trauma, and critical incidents as part of their job.
These experiences can take a toll on their mental health and well-being, leading to conditions like stress-related illnesses and trauma-related disorders.
By providing specialised training and support, CHARLY can help these individuals build resilience, cope effectively with stress, and mitigate the negative impact of traumatic experiences.
This can ultimately improve the mental health and performance of emergency forces, leading to better outcomes for both the individuals and the communities they serve.
Our solution
CHARLY is a unique training platform tailored for the prevention of stress-related illnesses and trauma-related disorders. Specifically designed for emergency forces, it helps to increase their resilience against traumatic experiences.
With CHARLY, deployed forces learn self-help skills to cope with acute stress reactions and therefore increase their psychosocial resilience efficiently and sustainably. The training addresses communication, knowledge, self-calming and self-efficacy and empowers emergency forces to sustainably strengthen their mental fitness, proactively safeguard their mental well-being and optimize their performance in high-stress environments.
Features and benefits
Features
- Interactive and multimedia
- Guidance through the system by a virtual coach
- Biofeedback interface
- Stress is induced in the training through a stress game and confrontation with a realistic service situation. This involves monitoring the heart rate variability throughout the session.
- The participants practise communication – both to acquire psychosocial support for themselves and to assist someone else through a mental stress situation
- Participants will practice three easy-to-learn, standardised, and pragmatic relaxation techniques
Benefits
- Optimise and improve the effectiveness of mission preparation
- Reduce the risk of stress-related illnesses (e.g., anxiety and panic disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosomatic complaints)
- Preventive measures to maintain the health of emergency personnel
- In the interactive and sensor-based setting, participants not only learn on a cognitive level. They also benefit from individual behavioural training through self-awareness and interactive experimentation with self-management methods.