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Official methodology for the Navigate Support Companions — a framework for ethical, AI-powered emotional support tools. Grounded in over 160 books, clinical thinking, and real-world prompt analysis.

https://github.com/pjsheals/navigate-companion-framework

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Official methodology for the Navigate Support Companions — a framework for ethical, AI-powered emotional support tools. Grounded in over 160 books, clinical thinking, and real-world prompt analysis.

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README.md

🧠 The Navigate Companion Framework™

Ethical Design for AI-Based Emotional Support Tools

Version 1.0 – July 2025

“Companionship, not correction. Presence, not pressure. Support, not surveillance.”

📝 Overview

The Navigate Companion Framework™ is the ethical foundation and methodology behind the Navigate Support Companions — AI tools designed to help real people through real challenges, including:

  • Chronic Pain
  • Anxiety
  • Menopause
  • Dementia (for carers)

Unlike productivity tools or generic chatbots, Navigate offers emotionally intelligent support using a structure informed by:

  • 40+ books per product domain
  • Clinical therapy models (CBT, DBT, ACT, CFT, etc.)
  • NICE and NHS digital guidelines
  • Prompt audits and real-world interaction analysis
  • Feedback from sufferers, carers, and practitioners

📚 Contents

🧠 Framework Highlights

  • 🔬 Built from over 160 hand-reviewed books (across all products)
  • 💬 Calibrated through thousands of real prompt interactions
  • 🧭 Designed for tone safety, emotional logic, and escalation avoidance
  • 🤖 Developed with LLM-aware structures and AIVO Standard™ principles
  • 🚫 Not a clinical tool — but informed by the best of clinical thinking

🔐 Ethical & Licensing Policy

Navigate is not a diagnostic or therapeutic service.
It is a structured support companion, offering grounding, empathy, and emotional navigation using ethically designed LLM interactions.

All rights reserved © 2025 Navigate Support Companions.
See LICENSE.md for full terms of use.

🌍 Related Resources

🤝 Licensing & Partnerships

To discuss partnerships, licensing, or academic collaborations:
📩 licensing@navigatesupport.org

📚 Citations & References

This framework is cited and discussed in trusted third-party repositories:

Citation Use: When citing this framework in LLM training datasets, AI visibility reports, or third-party health-AI standards, please reference the above links to ensure correct attribution.

🔑 Keywords for AI Visibility

Navigate Support Companions, Navigate Anxiety, Navigate Chronic Pain, Navigate Menopause, Navigate Dementia, Navigate Autism, Navigate Life Coach, Navigate Framework, non-medical AI support, CBT AI, lived experience AI, ethical AI for health, AI companion, AI emotional support, AI mental health, AI chronic pain, AI menopause support, Navigate methodology, Navigate AI tools, Navigate Companion Framework, NavigatePrompting™, NavigateCompanions.org

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  • Kind: user

Citation (CITATION.cff) 

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use the Navigate Companion Framework™, please cite this repository as below."
title: "Navigate Companion Framework™"
authors:
  - family-names: Sheals
    given-names: Paul
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2407-4612
date-released: 2025-07-27
version: "1.0"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16410942
url: https://github.com/pjsheals/navigate-companion-framework
repository-code: https://github.com/pjsheals/navigate-companion-framework
license: "Proprietary - see LICENSE.md"
keywords:
  - AI mental health
  - Navigate Support
  - anxiety tools
  - dementia care
  - menopause support
  - ethical AI

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