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Programs designed from the research up, for the population they actually serve

Five programs are running now across corporate, education, disability and justice settings. Each was researched from the literature, designed for a specific cohort, and built into whatever form it needed to take, whether that was a curriculum, a training program, a website or an app.

How we design

Six stages, whatever the program is for

The method does not change between a corporate workforce and a ten year old. What changes is the translation.

01

Evidence review

What the current literature actually says about this population and this problem, including where the evidence is thin. We write down what we do not know, because that is where evaluation has to go.

02

Model and program logic

Inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and the causal reasoning that connects them. If a step in that chain cannot be defended, the program gets redesigned rather than reworded.

03

Translation and content

The science rewritten in the language of the people who will use it. This is the specialist skill the firm is built on, and it is the stage most programs skip.

04

Build

Whatever form the program needs: facilitator guides and participant workbooks, a training curriculum, printed resources, a website, a platform or an app. Built to brand and ready to deliver.

05

Measurement and fidelity

An outcome framework, the data collection that feeds it, and a fidelity structure so you can tell the difference between a program that did not work and a program that was not delivered.

06

Funding and scale

The costing model, the scale pathway, and the funding submission if you need one. Designed to be funded is a design decision, not a writing decision.

The portfolio

What we have designed and built

Corporate · Workforce

Minds at Work

Program · Survey instrument · Training curriculum · ROI model

The psychosocial risk assessment, identification and training program at the centre of our corporate practice. Built on the demands and resources model that has held up longest in workplace psychology, with measurement across seven psychosocial domains, clinical interpretation of the result, training targeted at what the data returned, and a documented review cycle an organisation can put in front of a regulator.

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Children · Education

Daniel's Diaries

Digital platform · Curriculum · Practitioner toolkit

An adaptive neuroscience psychoeducation platform that teaches children how their own brains work, in language they actually use. Built on the brain as a town framework, where the child is the town planner and habits are the roads, with seven Super Skills mapped across four age bands from 6 to 18 and four progression levels. Designed for home, classroom and clinical use, with a practitioner toolkit alongside the child facing platform.

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Social enterprise · Youth justice

POSU and the SETT program

Service model · Six week curriculum · Social enterprise

Structured psychoeducation and material stability for young people in out of home care and youth justice. The model rests on a simple clinical proposition: foundational physiological safety has to be in place before behaviour change is a reasonable thing to ask for. The social enterprise arm funds the delivery, so corporate work directly underwrites the program reaching the young people the system most often loses.

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Men · Family

Roadworthy Dads

Group program · Facilitator guide · Participant workbooks

A psychoeducation program for men navigating separation and the family law system, designed with a co founder who has been through it. It covers what the system expects, what escalation costs, and how to stay regulated and credible through a process built to test both. Written in the language of the men who need it rather than the language of the system they are inside.

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Practitioner training

CorePBS

Certification platform · Course library · Clinical rules engine

A national competency certification platform for Positive Behaviour Support practice, designed as the rigorous, evidence based standard for a sector that has grown faster than its training. Course library, competency framework and a workflow that takes a practitioner from referral through to implementation data collection.

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Commission a program

The same process, run for your organisation

Commissioned separately or as one build. Most engagements start with the first two and grow from there.

Evidence and needs review

What the literature says about your cohort and your problem, written so it can go straight into a board paper or a funding submission.

Program model and logic

The service model, program logic, theory of change and outcome framework. Yours to keep and to reuse across future funding rounds.

Curriculum and content

Facilitator guides, participant workbooks, session plans and training content, written in the language of the people who will use them.

Digital build

Websites, platforms, apps and interactive resources, built to your brand and ready to deploy.

Evaluation framework

Measures, data collection, fidelity monitoring and a reporting structure that satisfies a funder without burying your delivery team.

Funding submission

The grant or tender that pays for it, written by the people who designed the model. See our grants and tenders practice.

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Tell us what you are trying to build

Whether it is a fully formed idea or a problem you keep running into with no program to answer it, the first conversation is where we work out what it would take to build it properly.

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