Have you ever dreamed of setting foot inside your brain, the very place where that dream was manufactured? 

Well, now you can with Burnout Brains, a science-informed approach to healing from teacher burnout through a digital interactive and immersive experience.

Wander through these rooms to learn about your brain health in relation to the effects, symptoms, and behaviors of burnout. 

Your exploration of these virtual dreamscapes will also teach you about science-backed prevention methods and healing techniques that can allow you to better manage and heal burnout.

The largest and most vast room, The Library offers you an immersively poetic experience of visiting a grand library filled with personal memories, secret passages, magical poems, and even a chess game with artificial intelligence. 

The journey is often meant to be the outcome, much as healing shows us. So, it is our intent that you walk out of The Library feeling more connected to yourself and your personal sense of purpose that distinctly comes from being reminded of who you truly are. 

This interactive experience is a simple and linear exploration of a kitchen and surrounding dining and recreation spaces where the walls really do speak. These spaces offer scientifically backed information about how the hypothalamus communicates with you during stress and/or burnout to regulate your brain and body.

This is one of the more straightforward rooms but it still manages to offer a creative dynamism that communicates a dreamy and poetic narrative about healing and well-being. Step inside to explore a space that bridges daily routine with introspective dreamscapes and imagination.

This is where all the higher-level functions and tasks take place. Four main areas are explored with respect to burnout: judgment and decision-making, logic and reasoning, self-awareness, and social functions and skills. 

You will see how burnout can take a dark hold on one's sense of self and abilities to participate in and contribute to the world. At the same time, The Home Office offers hope that healing and prevention are possible by leveraging your brain's abilities to make important changes, manage difficult problems, and increase your daily mindfulness.

Explore what the amygdala does as if it were a den with lots of interesting objects to view and learn from. This fun and interactive room will teach you some tools for better managing the effects, symptoms, and behaviours of burnout. 

Using interesting images and scientific research, users can have an interactive and immersive digital experience to better emotionally engage with their burnout. This allows an opening through which you can start to  work through your burnout so as to eventually move past the overwhelming and debilitating feelings of it.

In this room, the pituitary gland is explained as if it were a bathroom. Learn about the primary functions of the pituitary gland and how it is affected by burnout. 

By gaining a cognitive understanding of how your brain and body work together through this gland, you could begin to feel more motivated to adopt healthy habits that can help keep your nervous and endocrine systems in better balance. 

In The Front Hall, the important gray matter in your brain is likened to hallways. Here, you can explore objects that teach you about the effects of burnout on gray matter. The vital cognitive functions that gray matter supports and allows for are also discussed. 

By exploring this room, you will gain more understanding of the importance of protecting your brain's gray matter.  It is our intention that this supports you in enacting behavioral change through increased cognitive awareness of what your brain and body need to overcome and/or prevent burnout.