FREE TO BE ME

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Acknowledgement of Country

Sovereignty was never ceded. No treaty was ever signed. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters on which this work is made, and that does not become less true with time, legislation or silence.

FREE 2B ME acknowledges Elders past, present and emerging. This body of work exists because systems cause harm when they ask people to become easier to accommodate. No community in this country has been asked to do that more often, or for longer, than First Nations peoples.

We hold that as a matter of practice, not sentiment.

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A companion to the keynote “From Support to Sovereignty”

This audit is one reflection tool that sits inside the wider FREE 2B ME Practice rather than defining it. It is not diagnostic, not a capacity measure, and not a complete model of the Practice.

Sovereignty Conditions Audit

Notice the conditions before you draw conclusions about capacity.

A practitioner reflection for noticing the conditions that make capacity visible.

A free companion tool
This is not a client assessment. It is a practitioner reflection tool for examining the conditions surrounding a moment of apparent capacity, behaviour, resistance, disengagement, or support need. Please do not enter identifying client information. Nothing you select is stored, sent, or saved - it stays in your browser and clears when you leave.

Two questions this tool exists to slow down.

  1. What does my practice require the person to become?
  2. What had to be possible before this person could show me what they could do?

This audit does not answer either of them for you. It slows the moment down enough that you can.

Conditions shape what becomes possible. Support should leave authorship intact.