Workbook · 30 short chapters in six units
System Literacy in Real Life
The place to begin. You practise on a fictional community class, so nothing in it is about your own life unless you choose.
Coming soon · Learn it, step by step
The System Navigator Academy
A place to learn how systems really work, and how to find your way through them, one small step at a time. Led by people who’ve lived inside them.
Short lessons, at your own pace. You don’t need an account to practise, and you never have to share your own story to learn.
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Be the first to know when the Academy opens. I’ll send one email.
Why it’s different
LivedGen.
LivedGen is my word for the people leading with lived experience. We know how these systems really work, because we’ve had to find our way through them.
The barrier is never the person. It’s the design. So the Academy is about seeing the design, and learning how to change it.
What you’ll learn
Five questions to ask of any system.
See
What is happening in this system?
Understand
Why is it happening?
Navigate
How can I move through it?
Improve
What practical change is possible?
Influence
How can lived experience help make it better?
Ready now
Four starter courses.
These four are written and working now. Every example is fictional, so you can practise without anything touching your real life.
Toolkit · 12 situations
Navigate Your Next Situation
Twelve practice routes. Get a question ready, see what answer you get, and notice what you’re still unsure about.
Challenge book · 12 missions
From Experience to Useful Change
Twelve missions that build one fictional community centre project, without asking you to share anything personal.
Toolkit · 6 practice steps
Support Without Taking Over
Six optional steps for supporters, families and anyone choosing help, so you can help without taking over.
How it works
Go at your own pace.
- Each lesson takes a few minutes. Stop whenever you need to.
- You can mark a step done without typing anything. Notes are optional.
- Your notes stay on your own device, and you can save a copy if you want one.
- Every lesson shows where the ideas come from, so you can check them yourself.
Finishing a lesson is your own record. It isn’t a qualification.
Seven kinds of product
Each one is built differently.
- Workbooks
- Pattern books
- Lived experience books
- Toolkits
- Encyclopedias
- Journals
- Challenge books
The whole Academy is planned at 96 products. Four are ready now. I’m building the rest in order, so new ones will turn up over time.
The Academy is practical learning and plain language. It’s not legal or medical advice, and it can’t promise any particular outcome. Want something to use today? Start with the free Starter Kit or the system advocacy check-in.
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