Transforming empathy training
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
The Stage Awards
Winner 2024
Innovation
Games for Change
Finalist 2025
Best in Healthcare
Inclusive Innovation Award 2023
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Take a look at SIMFONIK in action and hear first-hand how trainee nurses are finding the experience.
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“SIMFONIK can be really useful in building a nurse/patient connection. SIMFONIK makes practice learning more human and real which is always a positive.”
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"SIMFONIK will be most effective for first year students going out into placement. A lot of the times, empathy is often used, however no one actually shows the student how to be empathetic."
Francine Gonzales-Walters
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"Seeing nearly 150 students all participating in a simulation and being able to relate it back to practice is exactly what simulation should be achieving."
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"SIMFONIK is tool to remind students of patients as a focus – that is powerful and valued by students."
Lee Jagodzinski
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STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“Before i used the word 'empathy' but i did not understand its full meaning. I now understand what it really means when i hear the word 'empathy'. Very educational and unique experience.”
“[SIMFONIK] made me realise that empathy is a hard skill – touch, listening, eye contact, gestures etc. Before i was only looking at empathy as putting myself into another person's shoe.”
“I now understand empathy more and feel equipped to implement it in practice.”
“SIMFONIK was immersive and different than other empathy sessions, which are usually the same and non-engaging, [SIMFONIK] makes you actually think and feel.”
Developed with input from leading simulation centres, clinicians and academics
SIMFONIK is a mobile app-based simulation platform that teaches empathy-driven communication through immersive, arts-led audio experiences. Combining authentic patient voice recordings, creative storytelling, and interactive roleplay, SIMFONIK delivers emotionally impactful training scenarios via bone-conducting headphones – eliminating the need for costly simulation rooms or VR suites.
Participants experience simulation scenarios in pairs, each receiving a different audio track aligned to a shared narrative. These experiences reflect real patient perspectives and are followed by guided reflection and structured debrief sessions – peer-to-peer and large-group alike – supporting deeper understanding and retention.
Supports tariff recovery with no need for simulation suites, specialist equiptment or infrastructure
Low Cost
Mass participation with minimal setup. Works across large numbers, class sizes and disciplines. Only requires one facilitator
Scalable
Choose between annual per-student licenses or per simulation (day-rate) licensing
Flexible Subscriptions
Built-in automated tracking, outcomes and NHS tariff compliant reporting - easing access to Government funding
Data-Driven
Facilitators can track progress, monitor completion, and access reports in real time - enabling efficient, reflective, and outcome-driven training.
MODALITY AND
DELIVERY
TECHNOLOGY Combined the mobile app and bone-conduction headphones create a deep emotional impact
SIMULATIONS Two empathy-based modules each lasting 60 minutes
LANGUAGES Available in English and Brazilian Portuguese with contextualisation support
AUDIENCE Suitable across disciplines including nursing, medicine, psychology, allied health, graduate, postgraduate and CPD settings
FLEXIBILITY Can be used on campus and at clinical settings (CPD)
Bone-conduction headphones can be sourced directly from SIMFONIK or independently. No additional hardware or software is required.
Together these features make SIMFONIK uniquely scalable, affordable, and emotionally resonant. It doesn't just simulate empathy - it helps learners practice it with another person, shifting it from an abstract value to a tangible clinical skill.
