SoulSp8ce
Multi-sensory Experience
The prototype for a fully immersive, multi-sensory experience to combat mental health challenges
The brief
According to Mind, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem, such as anxiety or depression, every week in England. SoulSp8ce is a solution to this growing mental health crisis.
SoulSp8ce came to MOREVER with a bold, abstract vision.
In response to the UK’s huge mental health epidemic, they wanted to develop a solution. Their idea was to create a highly-immersive, audiovisual sanctuary. A ‘SoulSp8ce’ where people can pause, relax, and re-energise in the midst of their daily lives.
The concept, devised by SoulSp8ce founders Dr Su Mason and Craig Rebuck, was ambitious: the creation of a serene, sensory space delivering an effective ‘soul experience’ to positively impact both physical and mental health.
It would be an easily accessible, calming and rejuvenating experience available in busy, everyday locations such as shopping centres, hospitals, schools, libraries, and airports. The experience could help improve quality of life and that may even contribute to reducing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide.
Craig and Su needed our help with turning their vision to reality, so that they could attract the interest of other medical professionals and investors.
It would debut at the Integrative & Personalised Medicine Conference. A major wellness and healthcare event for medical professionals, complementary therapists and investors, in London in June 2025. Our role was to take this brilliant but intangible idea and shape it into a real, engaging experience that could be felt, seen, and understood.
The approach
Working closely with SoulSp8ce’s co-founders we gradually shaped this ambitious idea into a real life experience. The abstract nature of the brief meant that we needed to help define the experience, establish the components and how it would unfold, and then create the audiovisual content.
Together, in weekly development meetings, we outlined the emotional and sensory journey the user would take through four distinct phases, each with a clear intention.
With this structure in place, we built the visual content using a blend of animation and stop motion. Colour theory played an important role, with gradients and soft palettes crafted to support each emotional shift and maintain flow and harmony. We paired an accompanying guided meditation, voiced by founder Su, with commissioned music built on a foundation of binaural sounds from the Earth’s own frequency, known as the Schumann Resonance.
From advising on the layout of the event space, to the best use of tech on which to run the experience, we worked closely with the founders to ensure the experience would be staged to its fullest potential at its debut in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London. We visited the exhibition centre and mocked up the prototype in our own studio, to ensure the best flow and engagement in the space,
The MOREVER team was also in attendance during the event to oversee installation and day to day experience. Craig and Su gathered physical data from the people taking part to measure how they felt before and after the experience. Our team captured footage of visitors’ impressions of what they had experienced, and used this content to create a promotional video to convey the experience to potential investors.
Through this collaborative process, we brought SoulSp8ce from a nebulous concept to a robust prototype, ready to be experienced by an audience for the first time.
The result
SoulSp8ce is now a multi-sensory experience where users are encouraged to sit quietly, breathe deeply, and engage with gentle, nature-inspired visuals and soothing audio, as they are guided through moments of personal healing and restoration.
The exhibition visitors who took part, many of whom were experts and professionals from the healthcare and wellness industry, reported feeling calmer, even in the busy exhibition centre, and were very impressed. They immediately saw the value in the experience, suggesting multiple locations where they could see it being invaluable.
Having successfully launched the experience the SoulSp8ce founders are now armed with engaging content and the data they need to start looking for and securing funding for the ongoing development of the SoulSp8ce experience.
This was the first step in a much bigger journey, the plans to develop SoulSp8ce are in place, we’re proud to be helping to shape them.
Output
1 x 8-minute multi-sensory experience prototype
Explainer deck and feedback content
Photography
Credits
Creative Director – Dan Mellor
Senior Producer – Tom Windsor
Editor – Kazz Thompson
Sound Design: Paul James / Wafer Audio
Motion Design – Dan Mellor
Executive Producer – Abi Mellor