The Sahana Movement now has a place to note what changes here and why it matters — this page.
New updates will be published as individual entries as they happen, and you can follow along without checking back manually.
What’s New
This page lists meaningful updates to the website and The Sahana Movement’s work.
Website Updates Updates System Created The Sahana Movement now has a dedicated home for meaningful website and movement updates, with its own RSS feed.
Website Updates Unbranding the Body Published Unbranding the Body is now live as a living publication series — beginning with 'Skin Is Not a Billboard.'
Unbranding the Body is now live under Thought Lab.
It’s a series about the stories placed onto bodies by markets, medicine, and productivity culture — and what becomes visible once those stories are removed. It doesn’t optimize bodies. It asks why they were treated as problems to begin with.
The first piece, Skin Is Not a Billboard, looks at how skin became evidence of discipline and worth, and what changes when authority is returned to the body it belongs to. Nine more pieces are planned, and the series page lists what’s coming.
Movement Updates The Life-Centered Bowl of Well‑Being Published A new core framework for deciding what needs you first — not by what matters most, but by what's closest to breaking.
The Life-Centered Bowl of Well‑Being is now public as a Sahana core framework.
It’s a decision framework for a question that comes up in very different rooms — caregiving, clinical work, leadership, teaching, policy — when more than one need is asking for attention at once. It doesn’t rank what’s most worthy. It asks what reaches well‑being fastest if left unsupported.
The page includes the full paper, a visual poster, a classification test you can apply directly, and a citable DOI through Zenodo.
Movement Updates Innovations Archive Launched Three open frameworks and device designs are now public, timestamped, and citable — with more planned.
The Living Innovations Archive is now public under Thought Lab.
It holds open frameworks, devices, and approaches developed from lived experience and shared for adaptation, research, and collaborative design. The Movement hosts and stewards this work — authorship stays with the person who made it.
Three pieces are live to start:
- Disability Support AutoCascade System — a unified structure for disability support, replacing a fragmented process people are otherwise forced to repeat. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Portable Door Assist Device — a portable assistive framework for independent door access. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Endometriosis, Mechanically — reimagining endometriosis as a condition of flow and repair, not only pain. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Each page includes context, a license, and notes on how to cite, adapt, or collaborate on the work.
Movement Updates Care Advocacy Counseling Published Care Advocacy Counseling is now open — the first Sahana for Care offering — for people navigating medical, housing, disability, education or any complex intersection of systems.
Care Advocacy Counseling is now live and open.
It’s a service for anyone navigating medical, housing, disability, education, access, or a complex intersection of systems, who wants to learn to advocate for themselves with clear language and something usable to walk away with. Sessions produce real deliverables: scripts, letters, templates, or a step-by-step plan, within 24 hours. It is advocacy and communication support, not legal advice or representation.
Movement Updates Payment Options and Pay It Forward Published Two new pages hold the Movement's shared approach to access — payment plans, reduced rates, sponsored spaces, and a community fund.
Access to Services & Payment Options and Pay It Forward are now live.
Together, they lay out how access works across every Sahana offering: transparent rates, payment plans where available, reduced-rate spaces, and a pooled community fund that can help cover full or partial cost. None of it requires explaining your whole situation, and none of it puts sponsors in contact with the people they’re supporting.
If cost has ever been the thing standing between you and an offering, these two pages are where to start.
Website Updates The Painting Published The Sahana Movement now has its presence mark — a hand-painted image — and a page explaining what it holds.
The image that now appears throughout the Sahana Movement is a painting, made by hand, by Elena Claire.
The Painting is live with the full story behind it: what the green, the ivory, and the pink hold, and why an ecosystem gets a landscape instead of a logo.
Website Updates Self-Perception Studio is Launching The Self-Perception Studio now has its own page — the first Sahana for Self offering, now launching.
Self-Perception Studio now has its own home as an offering of Sahana for Self.
The page explains what self-perception means, why the Studio exists, and what happens inside it. This is a launch, not a running program yet — the first step in is the virtual launch event, and regular sessions will begin afterward with an individual orientation conversation for each person joining.