Three programs, three very different mornings.
Every program is built for one cohort and one presentation. Here are three, each with a sample module you can open right now, exactly as a participant sees it.
Daniel helps walk kids to school.
Daniel is the golden retriever behind Daniel's Diaries™, and he is a real dog with a real job. Where a child is working on school avoidance, Daniel helps walk them to school. A dog at the gate changes the morning: there is something to hold on to, something that is not a negotiation, and a reason to take the next step that has nothing to do with being told to.
The program gives the child and the adults around them the science. Daniel gives them a reason to try it at 8.40 on a Monday.
Meet DanielNot a clinic room. Not a worksheet.
Each program takes the core ideas of psychology, the ones that explain why a young person does what they do when the pressure is on, and makes them concrete, practical, and theirs to keep. It is a suite rather than a single course. Each program is built for a particular cohort, and where a service needs something that does not yet exist, one is developed with them.
What the brain is doing
Anger, anxiety, and risk taking are explained as things a brain does for a reason, not flaws in the person. Once a young person can see the mechanism, they can work with it.
What to do about it
Every idea comes with something a young person can try in the moment, in the situations they actually find themselves in, not a strategy that only works in a quiet room.
Made where it is needed
The programs were built from direct practice with young people in under resourced communities, and they are grounded in behaviour science rather than a packaged curriculum.
Skills that outlast the program
The aim is not a good six weeks. It is a young person who understands their own brain well enough to make different choices when nobody is watching.
Six weeks, one idea at a time.
The founding program, the brain's alarm system, runs as a six week series for young people, each week built around one thing the brain does under anger, anxiety, and risk taking. It runs inside posu. and on its own, and every other program, for adolescent boys, for parents and carers, or for a setting that asked for one, is built on the same principles.
One mechanism a week
Each session takes a single thing the brain does and makes it visible: what sets it off, what it feels like from the inside, what it is trying to achieve, and where it goes wrong.
Real situations, plain language
The science is real and the language is ordinary. Every idea is tied to a situation the young person recognises from their own life, so it lands as something about them rather than something about a diagram.
The adults get the same explanation
Where there is a family, a carer, a support worker, or a youth worker, they get the same plain language explanation, so the learning does not stop when the session does and nobody around the young person is working from a different story.
Followed through
Where a program runs inside posu., it is followed by six months of monthly mentoring, with summary and progress reports so the adults responsible for the young person can see what is changing, and posu. holds longitudinal information rather than a snapshot.
See it for yourself. Three short samples are on this site, one module each: Your Brain User Manual for young people, The alarm system on anxiety, and Back through the gate on school avoidance, for parents as much as for young people.
The young people the system tends to miss.
The programs are designed to work where trust is thin, attention is short, and a young person has usually been talked at more than talked with, and to give the adults around them the same explanation.
Children and adolescents
Young people who want to understand why they react the way they do, and what they can do about it.
Adolescent boys
Teenage boys whose anger, anxiety, or risk taking is starting to cost them at school, at home, or with the law, in a version that respects them and does not ask them to talk about feelings first.
Youth justice
Young people in custody or on orders, where the usual rewards and consequences have stopped working and understanding has a better chance.
Out of home care
Children and young people in care, and the carers and workers who hold them, so everyone is working from the same explanation.
Schools and youth services
Services that want a structured program they can bring to the young people they already know, rather than a referral somewhere else.
Parents and carers
The same brain science the young person gets, in a version for the adults: what the alarm looks like from the outside, what to say, and what not to do at the door.
Behaviour support
Where a young person already has a behaviour support plan, a program gives them the brain science the plan is built on, in their own words.
Do not see your cohort? Program development is a service in its own right. Schools, youth services, and organisations tell us who it is for and what it needs to do, and we build it on the same principles and the same science, for them to run or for us to run with them. Tell us who you need it for.
Let's talk about your young people.
Schools, youth justice, out of home care providers, youth services, and behaviour support teams are all welcome to get in touch, whether you want to run an existing program, talk through what would suit your setting, or have one developed for your cohort. We respond personally, usually within two business days.
