Pixar and Rene Crown Wellness Institute Launch InsideU App [Video]

University of Colorado Boulder’s Renée Crown Wellness Institute has launching the InsideU Social Emotional Learning App, designed in partnership with Pixar Animation Studios, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, and digital designers Liquid Interactive. The app uses characters from Pixar’s Oscar-winning animated film Inside Out to help kids learn about emotional awareness and relationships.

The app taps characters and narratives from Inside Out, combining clips from the movie with interactive learning to both entertain and lead to personal insights by the user. Kids meet the “Mind Worker,” who guides them through the program and helps them to understand their emotions. Users experience four different episodes titled: “Meet the Team,” “Anger in Action,” “Emotions and the Body,” and “A Powerful Pause.”

The Crown Institute’s original inspiration for creating emotional education for children was the 2015 animated film, which depicts emotions as characters that live inside the mind of a young girl. Nearly a decade ago, the film had an …