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The Stickman Method

A practical engagement system.

FNI has developed a suite of programs delivered through a practical framework to support self-awareness that empowers accountability. The Stickman Method is that framework: one hour a week for six weeks, visual tools, plain language, delivered in groups or one to one.

Why it works before the service does

Participants are expected to move toward employment, health or justice outcomes while unresolved psychosocial issues, poor planning, low self-awareness, unstable routines, communication difficulties or disengagement continue to block progress.

The Method provides the practical early engagement step before job readiness, compliance or activity expectations can properly land. It does not replace your service. It makes your service land.

What it is not

  • Not case management
  • Not counselling
  • Not therapy
  • Not clinical treatment
  • Not a replacement for employment conditions

Three key ways

Do better. Live better. Be better.

Do better

Positive behaviour management

Everyday tips to help with developing and maintaining positive behaviours.

Live better

Let go of addiction

Clear, helpful guidance about the negative effects of problematic use of alcohol and other drugs.

Be better

Develop new life skills

Foundational life skills and tips to help address negative thought patterns and self-defeating personal habits.

Delivery model

We lead, then you do.

Facilitators run the first sessions in full. Your staff sit in and watch the framework work with your cohort.

The tools are unpacked step by step, with the reasoning behind each one, so nothing depends on charisma.

Your staff take a session with the facilitator in the room. This is where the method transfers.

Observation and feedback against the same checklist we hold ourselves to, not a general impression.

Ongoing access to the facilitator, refreshers, and updated materials as the suite develops.

Where the Method is applied

Employment services

Roadmap Planner

A pre-employment program for workplaces investing in the long-term unemployed market, helping individuals find work and stay in it.

Alcohol and other drugs

Blueprint for Success

Self-development intervention built to break the cycle of alcohol and drug addiction and the violence associated with it, with behavioural management plans participants and their families can actually use.

Youth justice and corrections

Timelines

Youth and adult offender clients create and present a detailed plan to a magistrate, setting out how they will address offending behaviour pre-sentence, in custody and post-sentence.

Corporate and professional athletes

Lifeways to Leadership

An intervention planning process led by a specialist in alcohol and drug addiction, supporting participants with personalised, visually based information.

Health and community

101 Alcohol and Other Drugs

Plain-language information on the debilitating effects of alcohol and drug addiction, and its impact on close family, friends and the wider community.

Cross-cultural capability

Living in Two Worlds

A First Nations cross-cultural lens for organisations that want their service to land with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.

Run one cohort. Then decide.

A six-week pilot gives your team attendance data, participant feedback and a clear view of whether the framework fits your cohort.

Book a pilot cohort