Whistl - Mental Health Gym

One of the basic principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is - “Be Better to Feel Better”.

WHISTL is a Mental Fitness app that sends you daily mental health exercises customized as per your mental profile.

These exercises have been curated by a team of experts consisting of psychologists and academics. We have gamified your Mental Fitness journey to keep you engaged through a reward mechanism. Every time you finish an exercise, you earn points. As you keep accumulating points and keep moving forward on your Mental Fitness journey, your level increases and you also receive badges corresponding to your level.

The purpose of Whistl is to enable the users to work on their mental health in a structured, quantifiable and regular manner. Our approach is based on Lifestyle interventions that makes it easy for the user to pro-actively work on their mental health instead of being reactive about it.

We do this while also raising awareness about mental health, removing the taboo around it and encouraging people to approach it as a lifestyle choice.

Whistl enables you to measure & develop Mental Fitness through daily personalized mental workout regimes.

Simply put, we’re a platform meant to help users work on improving their mental fitness in simple, accessible ways.

Think of us as mental gym to help you feel better, and thus function and live better.

To get a common misconception out of the way first, mental wellbeing isn’t about mental

illnesses alone – they are but a subset of overall mental health. Like how one might go for a run to stay fit or even thrive, Mental Fitness is meant to do the same for your mind. We often forget that brains need care and exercising too! We need to put work in to unlock self-growth.

Mental Fitness = Resilience + Flourish

Our overall mental wellness comprises two parts.

1. Resilience, which is our ability to cope with and meet psychological demands of life without

undue fatigue.

2. Flourish, which is our ability to unlock the full potential of our minds to accelerate self-growth.

We’re here to help strengthen your mental muscles so you may take on whatever challenges life may throw at you with ease.

Our approach combines positive psychology, mindfulness and the latest in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. We are passionate about maintaining a platform that is scientifically robust, and we do this by partnering up with expert clinicians, psychologists, life coaches, as

well as academics.

Using the existing research and concepts in the aforementioned sciences, we developed the WHISTL framework - these six pillars are essential to living a mentally healthy life.

W – Wins

H – Happiness

I – Involvement

S – Spark

T – Train

L – Love

How does WHISTL work?

The WHISTL Score

We evaluate a person’s mental wellness on the six Pillars of WHISTL. The results are displayed in form of a graph, which we call the WHISTL Score.

This gives us an idea of where the user currently is on their wellbeing journey – so we can address specific needs and design their experience better on the platform. It also gives the user an idea of where they might be on their self-improvement journey, and what needs work.

Daily Exercises

Based on a person’s WHISTL Score, we curate a daily gamified mental workout regimen for them. Each day, the user receives exercises tagged under one of the six pillars. By completing these tasks, the user is essentially strengthening their six pillars and in turn their foundation for long-term mental fitness.

They are also rewarded with Experience Points (XP points) upon task completion. Accumulating these XP pointers helps the user to “Level Up”, indicating that they have progressed in their journey to Mental Wellness, and also that they are now ready for a more evolved workout regime.