FREE 2B ME Practice Library

Four books for people.
Four books for practice.

The FREE 2B ME Practice Library is the publishing and learning arm of the wider FREE 2B ME ecosystem. Four person-facing books explore what support, difference, distress, capability, relationships and everyday life can look like from the person’s side. Four professional companions ask what practitioners, supervisors and organisations must actually do - including evidence, reasoning, scope, intervention, accountability and implementation. Same territory. Different responsibilities.

The FREE 2B ME Practice Library is currently in development. Titles will be released as editorial, specialist-review and publication gates are completed. Current editions are not yet available for purchase.

The paired library

The same territory. Two different positions.

The person-facing book begins with the experience, knowledge, goals and life of the person. Its professional companion addresses the responsibilities of practitioners and systems: evidence, reasoning, scope, intervention, implementation and accountability. Neither side replaces the other.

Pair 1
Hidden effort, access, support and authorship
Where change actually belongs
For people and families

FREE 2B ME

Less fixing. More living.

What changes when you stop treating yourself as the only place change can happen? A person-facing exploration of hidden effort, skills, support, health, relationships, conditions, practical leverage and authorship - without making conformity the goal.

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For practice

Access Before Intervention

A Neuroaffirming Framework for Counselling, Positive Behaviour Support and Disability Practice

Before interpreting difficulty, reduced engagement or behaviour, practitioners need a sufficiently accessible basis from which to understand what is actually happening. Access Before Intervention addresses evidence, interpretation, assessment conditions, formulation, scope, intervention legitimacy and professional accountability.

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Behaviour, communication, distress and quality of life
Understanding before responding
For people and families

You Make Sense

A Rights-Based Guide to Distress, Communication and Support That Helps

Your experiences, communication, distress and behaviour deserve to be understood in context - not reduced to something that needs to disappear. This book explores meaning, communication, support, relationships, quality of life and what genuinely helpful responses can look like.

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Behaviour Makes Sense

Rights-Based Positive Behaviour Support Beyond Compliance

A rights-based, neuroaffirming approach to Positive Behaviour Support spanning assessment, formulation, Behaviour Support Planning, implementation, review, quality of life and restrictive-practice reduction.

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Body, sensory experience, regulation language and access
Without making calm the goal
For people and families

Nervous System Nourishment

Finding What Supports Your Brain and Body

Explore sensory, movement, rest, body, communication, relationship and environmental factors that may affect access and wellbeing - without treating calm as the goal or one nervous-system explanation as the whole story.

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For practice

Beyond Regulation

Nervous System Nourishment in Counselling and Positive Behaviour Support

A professional companion for working with body and access considerations without mistaking metaphors, visible calm or one regulation model for clinical fact.

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Pair 4
Co-design, support relationships, workforce and systems
Keeping good practice alive under pressure
For people and families

Built With You

Why You Belong in the Design of Your Support and Your Life

The person already belongs in the design of their support and their life. This book explores partnership, communication, support, relationships, capability, belonging and what changes when support is built with people rather than around assumptions about them.

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For practice

Practice That Holds

Supervision, Teams and Systems for Neuroaffirming Practice

How supervision, workforce capability, evidence, governance and organisational systems keep good practice from disappearing when pressure, complexity or risk increases.

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Earlier published work

Earlier published work

Tanya’s contributed chapters in Hear Me Roar, Authenticity and Action and Resilience and Reinvention form part of the wider development history behind the Practice Library.

Where earlier material informs later work, publication and reuse remain subject to the relevant rights and permissions.
Where the books sit

The books are one part of the Practice

The FREE 2B ME Practice Library does not sit separately from the rest of the ecosystem. The same ideas are being applied and tested through the FREE 2B ME Practice, The Nest, Neurodivergent Empowered, the FREE 2B ME Practitioner Pathway, Evidence & Review, and Professional Learning. The books make the thinking visible. The rest of the ecosystem asks whether that thinking can actually hold in practice.

The Practice Library is being developed as a connected publication series. Individual titles will be released as editorial, specialist-review and publication gates are completed. Book one’s current revised edition is FREE 2B ME: Less fixing. More living.

Created by Tanya Hicks

Written from practice, not about it

The FREE 2B ME Practice Library is written by Tanya Hicks - founder and architect of the FREE 2B ME ecosystem, Human Systems Architect, author, counsellor and NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner. The library brings together lived experience, professional practice, research translation and the practical lessons of building real support and workforce systems.

Meet Tanya