Consultancy Overview

Survivor-aware consultancy for systems ready to transform.

Rooted in art. Structured by SSCS™. Focused on lived impact.

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My Approach

It was art that first became my language to face survival. It was the Self-Soothing Creative Steps (SSCS™) that steadied my nervous system and gave me a framework for change.

Now I support organisations to embed survivor-aware and trauma-informed practice, turning policy into lived impact. My consultancy blends lived experience, creative methodologies, and system-level strategy.

Grounded in my SSCS™ Framework and guided by my signature Hydrate, Affirm, Adorn™ methodology, my consultancy invites organisations to embody creative wellbeing — not just as policy, but as daily practice.

What grounds my consultancy

  • Survivor-led & trauma-informed
  • Creative, not clinical
  • Systems-savvy across council, charity, education, and corporate sectors
  • SSCS™ lenses: Support, Self-Love, Spirituality, Security

Areas of Consultancy

  • VAWG & DAHA Strategy: survivor-aware policy, safeguarding pathways, and accreditation support.
  • Trauma-Informed Culture: leadership training, wellbeing scaffolds, and organisational culture audits.
  • Community & Council Engagement: co-design sessions, creative listening, and survivor participation models.
  • Education & Research: survivor-aware ways of teaching, reflective practice, and collaborative research.
  • Arts & Cultural Spaces: creative programming and safer exhibition practices.
  • Evaluation & Impact: outcomes, storytelling, and ethical measurement frameworks.

Who I Work With

Councils & housing services • Charities & VAWG organisations • Universities & schools • Arts & cultural institutions • Purpose-led corporates

Consultancy Packages

  • Advisory Session (90 minutes)

    Focused guidance on a pressing challenge.

  • Half/Full-Day Intensive

    Audit, strategy, and aligned recommendations.

  • Project Sprint (4–8 weeks)

    Design, pilot, and embed a survivor-aware solution.

  • Ongoing Retainer

    Regular support during programme roll-outs or culture change.


Selected Collaborations & Roles

Professional Consultancy

  • Council DAHA-aligned consultancy (domestic abuse and housing strategy)
  • Community and charity bases integrations

Community Roles & Partnerships

  • Lived Experience Ambassador, Woman’s Trust
  • Lived Experience Ambassador, Advance
  • Angelou-aligned partnerships (policy influence and creative engagement)

The SSCS™ Thread

Support. Self-Love. Spirituality. Security.
Simple enough to steady you in the moment, deep enough to guide lasting change.

These four pillars shape how I listen, design, and evaluate, so your strategies are not just written but lived.

Let’s begin

Let’s co-create survivor-aware systems that honour lived experience.

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Prefer email? amja@amjaunabashedly.com

I help organisations close the gap between what they say and how they behave.

That gap between intention and behaviour is where I work.

Most organisations have written their values into policy and strategy.

But when those values meet real culture, power dynamics, unspoken tensions, competing priorities, something breaks down.

I work in that space.

Not to write your policies.

Not to replace your internal teams.

But to translate what you’ve committed to into how people actually experience working within your organisation.

This includes translational framework work through Cypher™, where intention, language, and lived experience are examined together.

What I Do

I consult at the intersection of narrative and systems.

I support organisations to:

• Surface difficult conversations without destabilising the room

• Close the gap between policy and lived culture

• Strengthen leadership capacity during change

• Translate commitments into daily practice

How I Work

My consultancy is guided by four frameworks that function as infrastructure, not add-ons:

Unabashed Narrative Pillars™

Holding difficult conversations without requiring personal disclosure.

Self-Soothing Creative Steps™ (SSCS™)

Supporting capacity and grounded decision-making during change.

Hydrate Affirm Adorn™ (HAA™)

Translating intention into daily rhythm and lived practice.

Cypher™ The Translational Framework

Cypher™ translates the human into the organisational. It reveals where intention, language, and lived experience fall out of alignment, and supports organisations to work with that insight structurally, without extraction or blame.

Together, they ensure that narrative strengthens systems rather than exposing individuals.

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Before we talk, take four to five minutes to see where you are.

The gap between what your organisation says it is and what people experience inside it rarely announces itself. It accumulates, in the conversations that keep not quite happening, the talent that quietly pulls back, or the leader who cannot name what feels wrong, only that something does.

This short reflection helps you locate that gap before we name it together.

No disclosure required. No right or wrong answers. Just clarity, before the conversation begins.

Take the Narrative Alignment Reflection

Yes. Community-rooted workshops are facilitated by Amja through our nonprofit platform, Let Art Be Your Becoming .

We offer flexible pricing for charities, CICs, and councils working with women, young people, or communities facing adversity.

You can view our partner-facing pricing guide or reach out directly to co-create an offering tailored to your goals.

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