I am starting a project with the aim of developing two products, an app and companion website, for people who've experienced ACEs.
The purpose of the products is to support people living their lives as positively and fruitfully as possible by enabling them to work with alleviating the effects of their ACEs on a continuous basis.
The products are currently named "Hugged," as I believe that compassion and loving-kindness towards oneself can be a bearer of personal development throughout life.
I think that deciding to work with one's ACEs is an act of self-compassion, and the products should help turn that act into sustainable habits and patterns.
My wish is to design the products in a way that they can become life-long companions for people, with the long-term, privacy, and data portability in mind.
It is my aim that the products will support both personal and interrelational tools and interventions. Initially, my focus will be on developing personal tools and interventions, and then later on interrelational ones.
I am (currently) not a trained psychologist or social worker (however, I recently began studying social psychology), and I am actively seeking to collaborate with professionals, institutions of higher education, and, of course, people with experience with ACEs to inform and test the design of the products.
In the coming weeks, I'll begin posting more details about the products, and in the meantime feel free to reach out to me in case you have an interest in the project.
Best,
Thomas
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