Bodyswaps

In our newest blog from Emily Lakin, read about how the team at Moulton College deployed Bodyswaps to their students, reaching over 400 sessions in just four months. 🤩 🔗 https://bit.ly/4epQhgB Thank you to Paige Hodson and the team for your contributions to this blog. ✨ #UKFE #VRinEducation #AIinEducation

Bodyswaps sponsored an award! ✨ We're proud to say we sponsored the Award for Excellence in Communication at Burton and South Derbyshire College's recent FE awards ceremony. BSDC nominated three incredible candidates and we found it very difficult to make our selection. But ultimately the winner stood out to us thanks to the incredible work she's done throughout her apprenticeship, building a variety of soft skills and truly exemplifying what it means to be a great communicator. Congratulations to our winner! And a big thank you to Zoe Tierney for presenting the award on our behalf. 🏆

You might have seen that Ben, our CRO, was lucky enough to go to #MetaConnect24 last week. Check out his vlog from the event below. 👇 And be sure to read his blog article if you haven't already: https://lnkd.in/e9dQnE_3 🚀

Discover how Claudia and the team Newham College of Further Education have used Bodyswaps to build a range of soft skills for their students. 🤩

Our CRO Ben Naughton-Rumbo shares his thoughts following #MetaConnect24 this week. There's many exciting things to come from Meta in 2025, including but not limited to the Orion Glasses that everyone is raving about. 😎 Read our newest blog to discover Ben's insights into Meta Connect's main announcements. 👀 🔗 https://bit.ly/47JxxWI

Earlier this month, Ben Naughton-Rumbo and Tylar Nicklis took a trip to Elizabeth City State University to visit their brand new Virtual Reality Lab and to run a Bodyswaps workshop with some faculty members. ✨ They had a great time with Tarsha M. Rogers, Ph.D., Gregory Miller, and the team at ECSU - we're looking forward to what this group of innovators can achieve in the future. 🚀 #USHE #NorthCarolina #ECSU #VRinEducation #AIinEducation

Bodyswaps on the big screen! 🚀 We couldn't be more excited about the news that we're an app of choice for Meta as they make a big push into education. And the team were thrilled to see ourselves up there on the big screen at Menlo Park during #MetaConnect24. 💫 Looking forward to seeing what day 2 of Meta Connect has in store. ✨

Here's part 2 of our Q&A following our webinar with Cindy Leggott and Nadeema Omar from Regina Work Preparation Centre earlier this month: ❓It sounds like you are having quite the success in running VR in your service delivery - was it always this easy or did you stumble on a magic formula?❓ Nadeema: I am lucky to have joined the team once they had their magic formula figured out so I got to skip the growing pains. It did take time to get to where we are. Initial challenges were getting buy-in from the team; and making time to test out the modules and developing our own best practices. I believe we worked backwards in the early days and developed best practices before we even had first practices. So, for example: rolling chairs were an issue because clients would roll out the boundaries and exit Bodyswaps; practitioners would sit in the room during the sessions which made participants uncomfortable. I believe it took about a year of trial and error before we were running smoothly. We were also not debriefing after each module (Bodyswaps provides good material to use for this!). Without discussion, we can’t identify what the participant has gained from the session and the way they can apply these skills in real-life situations. Cindy: The first year was rough to get buy-in from all of us at the Regina Work Preparation Centre. Honestly, the concern among Career Practitioners was it was going to either make our jobs more complicated or take our jobs away. The first year the VR team used to have signs they would bring to staff meetings. Each time a CM brought up a concern they would hold up one of 2 signs. The signs read: THIS IS WHERE YOU USE VR THIS IS WHERE YOU USE BODYSWAPS As funny as that may sound, that's how I decided to try both for myself and I was able to see how both would enhance the work I do with clients. It is absolutely crucial that if anyone is asking clients to use these technologies they have gone through the experience for themselves first so they can work with their client, and be relatable and knowledgeable about what the client will experience. 💡Great insights once again from Cindy and Nadeema! If you missed out on the webinar, be sure to check out the recording: https://bit.ly/47t0t53 #EmployabilitySkills #VRSoftSkills #VirtualReality #VRinEducation

What an incredible space for students at Wigan & Leigh College and University Centre. 😍

Exciting times are on the way for Psychology BSc students at York St. John University with Matthew Coxon's holistic plans for VR across all three years. 🚀 We can't wait to hear how this year goes. ✨