A structured presentation mapping key developmental markers in advocacy practice, enabling participants to locate themselves within the broader Strategic Self-Advocacy™ system.
“A navigational tool for understanding your advocacy trajectory within complex systems.”
This presentation is grounded in the theoretical foundations of Strategic Self-Advocacy™, mapping the progression of advocacy capability through identifiable developmental milestones.
A structured pathway framework that assists emerging and established advocates to understand their positionality, capacity, and future growth within advocacy ecosystems.
Early-stage identification of advocacy needs, personal boundaries, and system navigation skills.
Building reliable strategies, stable routines, and repeatable advocacy actions.
Interfacing with institutional systems, understanding constraints, and generating structural solutions.
Engaging with societal-scale reforms, ethical frameworks, cultural dynamics, and global advocacy patterns.
Current Release: v1.0 (2025)
Zenodo Record: https://zenodo.org/records/17138441
A progressive developmental sequence representing the evolution of an advocate from awareness to systemic influence.
Recognition of mismatches, barriers, or rights gaps. Development of early orientation skills.
Learning the system landscape, constraints, and the basic tools of personal advocacy.
Developing reliable routines, documentation habits, and repeatable advocacy practices.
Understanding institutional logic; coordinating across agencies; anticipating system behaviour.
Engaging in systemic change, reform-making, and structural ethical design.
The structural layers of Strategic Self-Advocacy™, animated to show upward flow, pressure dynamics, and systemic influence channels.
Personal needs, boundaries, cognitive load, and lived experience form the core base-layer of SSA methodology.
Advocacy as co-regulation, joint decision-making, communication scaffolding, and shared strategy.
Systems navigation, policy interpretation, process alignment, and institutional logic mapping.
Cultural, political and structural forces shaping advocacy landscapes on a macro scale.
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Project Leader • Systems Designer • Creator of Strategic Self-Advocacy™
Sarah Ailish McLoughlin is the architect of the Strategic Self-Advocacy™ framework, specialising in cognitive accessibility, participant-led infrastructure, and ethical system design. Her work spans global advocacy mappings, NDIS navigator architecture, and complex systems reform.
A short 6-step flow to help identify your current SSA Advocacy Milestone.