Some years ago I scoped “The Mental Health Wavelength App”: I think it was 2018.

It was my second — or maybe third — proposed beachhead market for what I was already calling “intuition validation”. (The first was business and organisational consulting. The third involved the development of an expert counter-terrorism application.)

At the time, I was looking to work with a Liverpool hospital, and attended some events whilst signed up to a European-funded programme of outreach to local businesses which they were responsible for.

The interesting element to this proposal, which was followed by many more you can now see here on GB 2 Earth, was its hierarchy:

• people with mental health challenges should be seen as subject-matter experts to be consulted for their expertise in their circumstances,

• rather than investigated — almost as if they had committed a crime — by professionals trained more in diagnosis of the distant than in the support of the human.

It didn’t, however, choose to dispense with these professionals at all — as many so-called mental-health apps then proceeded to attempt to — but instead relocate them to a series of different but equally robust processes.

What follows are the slides from that original historical slide-deck. The full deck can also be downloaded by clicking on the button below.