Suitable for ages
7-12 years
Autism Friendly
Autism specific provider
Support Provided
Check with provider
Location
Online
Everything you need to know
Connect & Communicate with each other and Co-create a Fantastic World
- Creative Weekly missions: Imagine your child working with other children or teens to build amazing things while having to negotiate, listen, and work with others
- Private Server: Session are conducted on a private server, with a facilitator to ensure online safety. It’s a much safer alternative for kids than just playing online games with strangers
- Team Work and Collaboration: Each online session has a lesson plan developed by our Clinical Nurse Specialist In Autism. Designed to help develop social and emotional skills
Making and Understanding Friendships
Our programs aim to build confidence, ensuring that participants can positively step out into the world, equipped with the social tools they need to thrive. Whether it’s learning to share resources, understanding personal space, or working together to achieve a common goal, the skills developed in our Minecraft programs have a lasting impact that extends beyond the screen. At Brightlives, our amazing team works closely every week to ensure that the group builds healthy friendships and builds their emotional intelligence and confidence.
Build Essential Social Skills While Having Fun
Using Minecraft as a tool to build social skills offers a unique, engaging way for players to learn and practice collaboration, communication, and empathy. Participants work together to complete complex projects, build structures, and explore vast digital worlds, often relying on teamwork to achieve shared goals. Our facilitators encourage teamwork by delegating tasks as well as providing encouragement and constructiveness throughout each session. For younger players, this cooperative environment helps them develop patience, empathy, and resilience, as they learn to understand and respect the ideas and perspectives of others while creating something meaningful together.
Using Minecraft as the Platform
More than 90% of surveyed teachers cited problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration as the key skills gained through using Minecraft in the classroom. A number of Studies and reports have cited Minecraft’s social-emotional learning (SEL) benefits. This tool offers a structured yet flexible environment that helps develop social, sensory, and cognitive skills. The platforms open-ended design allows players to explore and build at their own pace, which can reduce anxiety and provide a safe space for self-expression.
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