Mental fitness for becoming the best version of you
Hugr is a mental fitness app to help improve resiliency.
How Hugr Works
Hugr introduces you to a mental fitness plan, similar to a physical fitness plan, with evidence-based activities to support your practice in flourishing. Here’s how it works:
Measure Your emotional, flourishing, and energy levels
Develop a plan with your focus and vision
Build a Team to support you
Practice Flourishing with daily, weekly, and monthly activities
Your practice to flourishing = 10 minutes a day with Hugr
Highlighted Features
Hugr is full of features to support your commitment to mental wellness:
Notifications to complete your daily, weekly, and monthly activities
Weekly email summary of your activities
Supportive nudges or encouragement when you share activities with your team
Inspirational quotes to encourage you on your journey
Personalized trends to see your progress and where you may need to make adjustments
Listen to or read Dr. Howatt’s Five F’s and tips for resiliency
Direct links to EFAP and crisis support are at your fingertips if you need or desire them
How does Hugr help Employees and Businesses?
For employees
Hugr works for everyone - no matter where they are on their mental well-being journey
Gives employees the skills to support their mental well-being
When bad days happen, they have easy access to integrated support and tools
Normalizes the importance of personal mental well-being and reduces stigma
Helps employees forge psychologically safe and meaningful social connections at work and at home
For employers
Promoting Hugr demonstrates a timely commitment to employee well-being
Employees will develop new knowledge and skills and feel a greater sense of flourishing, resulting in higher engagement, retention, productivity and performance
Hugr is a valuable, evidence-based addition to their workplace well-being toolkit that will proactively support all employees
Full of features to assist your journey
| Free | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Activities | ||
| Daily Journal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Select your Focus (Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Career or Money) | ✓ | |
| Create and manage your Vision | ✓ | |
| Daily Emotional Check-in | ✓ | |
| Weekly Flourishing Check-in | ✓ | |
| Monthly Energy Check-in | ✓ | |
| Social Connection Check-in | ✓ | |
| Isolation Check-in | ✓ | |
| Loneliness Check-in | ✓ | |
| Readiness to Change Check-in | ✓ | |
| Trends | ||
| View current and previous Daily Journal entries | ✓ | ✓ |
| View latest Flourishing Check-in score | ✓ | |
| View latest Emotional Check-in score | ✓ | |
| View latest Energy Check-in score | ✓ | |
| View latest Social Connection Check-in score | ✓ | |
| Notifications | ||
| Daily Journal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily Emotional Check-in | ✓ | |
| Weekly Flourishing Check-in | ✓ | |
| Monthly Energy Check-in | ✓ | |
| Team Invitations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weekly Email Summary of Activities | ✓ | |
| Build, manage, and share with your team | ||
| Send unlimited invitations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add unlimited team members | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove added team members | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share Daily Journal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage share settings for each team member | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Team activity stream | ✓ | ✓ |
| Send nudges to team members | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share Focus and F-stage | ✓ | |
| Share Daily Emotional Check-in | ✓ | |
| Share Weekly Flourishing Check-in | ✓ | |
| Monthly Energy Check-in | ✓ | |
| Share Social Check-ins Social Connection, Isolation, Loneliness, Readiness for Change | ✓ | |
| Learn | ||
| Listen to or read 36 Resiliency Tips | ✓ | ✓ |
| Listen to or read 4 F-It Modules | ✓ | |
| Listen to or read 7 Isolation & Loneliness Modules | ✓ | |
| Added support when needed | ||
| Connected to ARIVE EAP | ✓ | |
| List of Crisis Services support in Canada | ✓ | ✓ |
| Privacy | ||
| Use offline | ✓ | ✓ |
| Choose to sync or not sync data when online | ✓ | ✓ |
| Other | ||
| Available in French and English | ✓ | ✓ |
| Haptic Feedback | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share only what you want, with those that you want | ✓ | ✓ |
Get Hugr premium for free with Chambers Plan
Proudly working with Arete and Chambers Plan to bring Hugr premium features to the insurance and benefits industry in Canada. Chambers Plan members receive Premium access.
Flourish With 10 Minutes A Day Of Hugr
Practice flourishing by spending only 10 minute a day with Hugr. Let us turn your daily 10 minutes into readable statitics of your mental fitness for your week, month or year.
The Hugr Workplace Mental (Behavioural) Health Program
A strategic, phased approach to facilitating workers’ mental (behavioural) health by providing employers and workers with information to facilitate workers’ mental fitness.
Email us@hugr.ca to learn more about Hugr's stepped-care model for promoting workers' mental health and mitigate mental harm.
Built on a proven mental fitness foundation
Hugr leverages the Stop Hiding F-IT model, and The Cure to Loneliness program for creating authentic connections to ensure we blended evidence-based content and technology with one goal; to support individuals to flourish. The Employers Handbook provides guidance on how to facilitate mental fitness prevention design to help employees flourish and to reduce their risk for mental harm.
-- Dr. Bill Howatt
View WebsiteOur Partners
Since 2017, Hugr has been developed with lived experience, in co-design with psychological health and safety leaders, continual industry feedback, and a scientific approach to improving the efficacy of the app.
Thank you to the Healthy Workplaces & Workplace Mental Health team of experts in providing co-design guidance and initiating a 6-month action research study.
Thank you to Howatt HR Applied Workplace Research Institute for their role in the study, Examining the impact of the Hugr Authentic Connections digital mental fitness app on mitigating isolation and loneliness in the workplace.
Thank you to Arete HR a business and employee assistance program provider for insurance firms across Canada, for co-design guidance and continual feedback and EFAP integration with Hugr.
Thank you to Johnston Group who provides employee benefit solutions to over 30,000 Canadian companies, for their excellence, co-design guidance, and including Hugr in the Chambers Plan.
Thank you to the Territorial team of designers and developers who have attentively built Hugr from the ground up.
And so many other individuals, businesses and users of the app who have and continue to provide valuable feedback for improvement.
The History of Hugr
2017
Scott's leave of absence & beginning of web app development
2018
Web app beta
2019
Mobile App Development
2020
Focus on Isolation & Loneliness with WSPS co-design
2021
Six-month action research study. Co-design with Arete HR & Johnston Group. Launch Hugr Authentic Connections to Chambers Plan across Canada
2022
Evolving app to Mental Fitness