Fika app available to students

The University of Portsmouth is offering access to staff and students to use the Fika App until the end of 2020.

Their mission is to mainstream mental fitness, improve core skills, reduce the risk of mental health decline and help users to flourish.

Fika exercises are proven to improve mental health by increasing positive emotion, life satisfaction, self-belief and reducing negative emotion. Their mental fitness courses are designed by leading academics and psychologists and backed by decades of secondary evidence from multiple psychological sciences and their own primary research.

They facilitate the practice of the 7 skills of mental fitness which are stress management, confidence, focus, motivation, connections, positivity and meaning. An understanding and practice of these skills is key for emotional self-management and self-control and contributes to success in all aspects of life including academic, career, social, health and relationships as well as delivering positive mental health benefits.

Get mentally fit to improve performance with Fika! Find out more here!

You can download the app for free from your app store.