Unity For Humanity Winner 2025
Immersive simulations for climate precaution & resilience
Rephobia helps organisations prepare people for environmental disruption using adaptive immersive simulations. Communities, teams, and individuals can rehearse difficult scenarios such as floods, extreme weather, infrastructure failures, and evacuation decisions in controlled, repeatable environments.
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Preparing people for environmental disruption
Climate risks are increasing, but preparedness often relies on static training, written guidance, or one-off drills. These methods struggle to recreate the pressure, uncertainty, and decision-making people face during real environmental emergencies.Rephobia creates immersive simulations where people can safely experience and rehearse high-stakes environmental scenarios before they occur. Sessions can be repeated, adjusted in intensity, and delivered consistently across organisations and communities.The result is better preparedness, stronger understanding of risk, and improved decision making when disruption occurs.
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People surveyed across high-stress exposure environments
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Pilot study completed with Queen's University Belfast
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Awards and grants won
Train people for real environmental scenarios
Rephobia allows organisations to deliver immersive preparedness training for environmental and climate-related disruption. Sessions can be repeated, controlled, and adapted in real time to match training goals and participant needs.
01 How it works
Use Rephobia within a training, resilience, or preparedness programme. Facilitators can select the target scenario, adjust intensity during the session, and guide participants through repeatable decision-making steps in a controlled setting.
02 Where it adds value
Ideal for organisations preparing people for environmental disruption where real-world drills are difficult, expensive, time-consuming, or hard to arrange consistently. Start with flood preparedness and extreme weather scenarios, then expand across a growing library of immersive resilience environments.
03 Built for deployment
Rephobia is designed for practical delivery in organisations, training environments, and community programmes. Sessions can be repeated, adapted for different audiences, and delivered safely with facilitator oversight.
Interested in bringing Rephobia into your organisation?
Request a demo to review the current build and discuss fit, workflow requirements, and pilot availability.
Unity for Humanity Winner 2025
Make climate preparedness easier to deliver
Rephobia supports facilitator-led immersive training for environmental disruption with controlled scenarios and adjustable intensity, reducing reliance on real-world drills.
01 How it fits into sessions
Use Rephobia as part of a resilience, adaptation, or preparedness programme. The facilitator sets the target scenario, adjusts intensity in real time, and guides participants through repeatable steps with consistent conditions session-to-session.
02 Common use cases
Climate and environmental scenarios where real-world training is difficult, costly, or impractical to arrange. Start with flood preparedness, evacuation decision-making, and extreme weather response, then expand across a growing library of immersive resilience environments.
03 Setup and delivery
Facilitated delivery with oversight throughout. Lightweight onboarding, clear suitability guidance, and a workflow designed to work in community settings, public sector organisations, education, and operational teams.
Interested in becoming a pilot partner?
Request a demo to review the current build and discuss fit, workflow requirements, and pilot availability.
Liam impressed a judging panel that included Peter Jones CBE, star of the BBC’s popular show Dragons’ Den with his business idea, Rephobia.
Peter Jones Foundation
National Entrepreneur of the Year 2025
Frequently asked questions
For clinicians, partners, and media. If you have a specific question, request a demo or contact us.
Who is Rephobia for?
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Rephobia is designed for organisations that need to prepare people for difficult or high-stakes environmental situations. This can include local authorities, resilience partnerships, infrastructure operators, schools, housing associations, community organisations, and training providers. The platform allows organisations to deliver immersive preparedness sessions where participants can safely experience environmental disruption scenarios such as flooding, evacuation decisions, or extreme weather response.
Is this self-guided or therapist-led?
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Rephobia is designed for guided sessions led by a facilitator. A facilitator can select the scenario, adjust the intensity of the simulation, and guide participants through the experience while discussing observations and decision points. This structure makes the platform suitable for training programmes, workshops, and preparedness sessions rather than unsupervised individual use.
What does a typical session look like?
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A typical session begins with a short briefing where the facilitator explains the scenario and training objective. Participants then enter the immersive simulation and experience a developing environmental situation such as rising floodwaters, infrastructure disruption, or evacuation decision points. The facilitator can adjust the conditions during the session and pause to discuss decisions, reactions, or observations. After the simulation, a short debrief helps participants reflect on the experience and discuss preparedness actions.
What kinds of environmental scenarios can you support?
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Rephobia’s platform is designed to support immersive scenarios related to environmental disruption and preparedness. Examples may include; flood awareness and evacuation decisions, extreme weather response, infrastructure or utility disruptions, environmental hazard awareness, community resilience training. The scenario library can expand over time as the platform develops and new use cases are explored with partners.
What hardware is required?
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Rephobia currently runs on standard standalone virtual reality headsets. These devices allow immersive simulations to be delivered without large installations or specialist facilities, making it possible to deploy sessions in organisations, training rooms, community settings, or classrooms.
How do you handle safety and suitability?
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Sessions are designed to be guided by a facilitator who monitors the experience and adjusts the simulation when needed. Participants receive a briefing before entering the simulation, and sessions can be paused or adjusted at any time. The aim is to create an immersive learning experience while maintaining a controlled and supportive environment.
Is Rephobia a medical device?
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No. In the climate resilience and preparedness context, Rephobia is used as a training and simulation platform rather than a medical or therapeutic intervention. The platform is designed to support learning, preparedness, and behavioural training related to environmental scenarios.
What stage are you at, and what are you looking for from clinics?
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Rephobia has completed early development and pilot exploration with immersive scenario technology. We are currently exploring partnerships with organisations interested in testing how immersive simulations could support environmental preparedness, resilience training, or community engagement. Partners can help shape use cases, provide feedback, and explore pilot deployments.
Can you share evidence or studies?
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The core immersive simulation technology has been explored through early research and pilot work. As the platform expands into environmental preparedness use cases, additional pilots and studies will help evaluate training outcomes, behavioural impact, and practical deployment. Organisations interested in research collaborations are encouraged to get in touch.
How do I get involved?
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Organisations interested in climate resilience training, environmental preparedness programmes, or pilot projects can request a demo through the contact form. We are currently looking to work with early partners who want to explore how immersive simulations could support preparedness, training, or community engagement around environmental disruption.
For organisations
See the platform workflow in action
A short walkthrough of the current build, intended use, simulation flow, and pilot partner requirements - with time for your questions.
Discuss fit for your organisation
If you’re a therapist or clinic, use this form to request a demo or discuss pilot partnership. For research, funding, or media enquiries, include context and we’ll route you to the right place.
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1. Introduction
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