Books for people.
Books for practice.
The Free 2 B Me Practice Library translates one neuroaffirming Access architecture for the people receiving support and the professionals responsible for providing it.
Four paired territories connect lived experience, counselling, rights-based Positive Behaviour Support, Nervous System Nourishment, supervision, teams and systems — without turning books into services or services into marketing.
One philosophy, translated from both sides.
Each person-facing book has a professional partner. One explains what good support should mean to the person. The other makes the method, evidence, scope and implementation accountable.
Recognition, rights and a life that includes you
It Shouldn't Be This Hard · You Make Sense · Nervous System Nourishment · Built With You
Explore the four books →Method, evidence, supervision and implementation
Access Before Intervention · Behaviour Makes Sense · Beyond Regulation · Practice That Holds
Explore the professional canon →From Support to Sovereignty
A signature keynote film on access, safety and self-determination. Full presentation currently available to watch.
Beyond capacity in isolation, into conditions and access
Tanya helps practitioners and organisations ask a different question - not only “what can this person do?”, but “what conditions are shaping what we’re able to see?”
Capacity is conditional
The same person can look capable in one setting and unable in another. That is data about conditions, not character.
Behaviour communicates
Behaviour may communicate distress, adaptation, unmet need or protection. What looks like resistance, avoidance or shutdown is often survival or nervous-system defence, not a deficit.
Support builds conditions
Support can be one of the conditions through which communication, participation, agency and self-determination become more accessible. Ongoing support does not undermine sovereignty.
Start where the work meets you
Book a keynote
A cinematic keynote, or a keynote + workshop package for your event or professional-learning day.
Enquire about a keynote →Use the free tool
The Sovereignty Conditions Audit - a practitioner reflection for noticing the conditions that make capacity visible.
Open the tool →Train your team
Professional development, reflective practice, or an organisational condition audit.
Enquire about training →From Support to Sovereignty
Capacity, safety, and the conditions for neurodivergent self-determination - a keynote that moves practitioners from asking what a person can do toward asking what conditions make capacity visible, hidden, costly, or safe.
Best for conferences, PD days, professional-learning communities, allied health teams, education teams, and disability organisations.
Practice tools for condition-building
Reflection tools that help practitioners notice conditions before they assess the person.
The Sovereignty Conditions Audit
A free practitioner reflection tool for noticing the conditions that make capacity visible. No login. No data collected.
Created as a companion resource to From Support to Sovereignty.
Conditions Snapshot Generator
Accurate, affirming wording for reports and reflections.
Baseline Access & Equity Ledger
Making hidden access costs visible, for teams and organisations.
Professional learning for condition-building practice
Training, workshops, and reflective practice for teams ready to read conditions, not deficits.
90-minute PD session
An accessible introduction to capacity, safety, and condition-building practice.
Half-day workshop
Applied practice for recognising environmental, relational, and sensory conditions before interpreting behaviour.
Full-day workshop
A deeper practice-change session for embedding neurodiversity-affirming, nervous-system-informed work.
Reflective-practice consultation
Case consultation, implementation coaching and supervisor development for people already holding appropriate roles - clearer, safer, less deficit-based practice language.
Keynote + workshop package
A conference keynote paired with practical application for teams or delegates.
Organisational condition audit
A structured review of the systems, environments, and conditions shaping capacity.
The thinking underneath the tools
Essays, framework notes, and longer-form writing on capacity, safety, sovereignty, systems, and the cost of being misread.
Misfit Architecture
How environments, not people, produce the “misfit”.
It Shouldn't Be This Hard
The exhaustion that rest does not fix, and what it costs to show up. The person-facing flagship of the Practice Library. In development.
See the book page →The paired Practice Library
Four books for people and four for practice, translating one Access architecture.
Explore all eight →Tanya Hicks
An AuDHD thinker, counsellor, writer, and speaker working at the intersection of neurodiversity, sovereignty, nervous-system safety, and systems design.
Her work asks a different question of practice - not “what can this person do?”, but “what conditions are shaping what we’re able to see?”
Author, speaker, counsellor (ACA R82053), NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner (P1362818), Master of Counselling candidate and framework developer. Founder of Neurodivergent Empowered and creator of the Sovereignty Conditions Audit.
TanyaHicks.com is the home of Tanya Hicks' books, speaking, frameworks, research translation and professional learning. Participant supports are delivered separately through Neurodivergent Empowered and The Nest within the relevant practitioner's qualifications, professional scope and active provider registration.
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Access is created with the person, not earned through performance.
Capacity is contextual. Agency is not earned. Self-determination guides the work.
Assess the conditions before you assess capacity.
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