Navigating you through life
About Us
Life Nav helps people to navigate through life's journey. We help to get you back on track. Just as people are guided through situations that are known to be physically challenging, the Life Nav App is specifically designed to help individuals navigate situations that are mentally challenging.
Our Organisation
Life Nav is a Melbourne based organisation owned and run by qualified social workers. We understand that it does not take much for a person to feel lost and disorientated. An untimely injury or missed team selection may appear to shatter a sporting dream. Similarly, an illness or traumatic experience may make the everyday seem insurmountable or unattainable. Our Navigators are qualified counsellors ready, willing and able to help. Whether it is rerouting around closed roads to find the road less travelled or reorientating towards a new destination. We get people back on track. Most importantly we will do it in a way that helps them enjoy life’s journey – because we believe that in life the journey is more important than the destination.
Every individual’s journey through life is unique. Along the way everyone faces different challenges and choices and sometimes people are not ready or able to deal with the circumstances they find themselves in. Life Nav helps individuals when they need it most.
Our App
The inspiration for the Life Nav App came from conversations with coaches, parents and participants in professional sport pathways. There was an acknowledged issue with the mental health of participants particularly through the pre-season selection process. As one coach said “It's tough, we know that the kids that don’t make the team often go off-the-rails, but my focus has to be on those that do make the team”. Life Nav wanted to find a practical solution to ensure that broken dreams did not become broken lives. So, we started designing an app that would support individuals through known periods of challenge.
Over two years we combined our social work skills and knowledge with experts in mental health research and technology to develop a pilot program. We then refined the app and got input from focus groups and UX design experts to create the Life Nav App. In the process we uncovered that there was a much broader application for the Life Nav App.
Our Ambition
Life Nav aims to help as many people as possible to overcome the challenges of life and live fulfilling lives.