Ganache
Choose not to surrender your judgement to the moment.
Ganache helps people keep a ledger of what is happening within them—emotionally, mentally and practically—so they can navigate thoughts, feelings and decisions before they become action.
What’s on your mind
Hear yourself before the moment decides how you act.
“I’ve been doing what’s expected of me for so long, I’m no longer sure how much of it I’m choosing.”
- What has been on your mind lately?
- When do you notice this most?
- What would you like room to say?
- What would moving forward look like for you, even in a small way?
Why Ganache exists
When everything pulls at you, finding your own direction matters.
Someone asks how you are. You say “fine”, because you wouldn’t know how to explain the rest.
You’ve been getting on with things. Showing up. Being who people need you to be. But something stays with you after the day is over. You replay a conversation. Something small upsets you. Or you notice you haven’t felt much at all.
You might not know what’s underneath it yet. You might only know that you haven’t quite felt like yourself.
Ganache gives you a moment where nothing needs to come out neatly. Speak or write what you can. Explore it through gentle prompts, with room to pause, change your mind and find words that feel like yours.
You can begin with: “I don’t know how to explain this.”
What we carry
There can be more beneath the surface.
You don’t need to identify it before you begin.
Expectations
What others need from you can become difficult to separate from what you want for yourself.
Change
A new role, relationship or responsibility can leave you finding your feet, even when it’s something you wanted.
Pressure
Several demands can build up until it’s hard to tell which one is taking the most from you.
Distance
Sometimes you keep going without feeling particularly connected to what you’re doing—or knowing how to explain it.
How it works
A moment to hear yourself again.
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Pause
Give yourself a little space from whatever is happening. You don’t need to arrive with a question.
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Start wherever you are
Speak or type what’s on your mind. A thought, an incident, a feeling you can’t quite name. It doesn’t need to come out neatly.
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Choose a perspective
Choose a counsel or familiar reminder that feels useful for this moment.
04
Explore what comes up
Work through short prompts at your own pace. Notice what feels relevant, question it and leave aside what doesn’t fit.
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Decide
What needs to happen now—and what can wait?You might act, ask a question, set a boundary or give yourself more time. Ganache helps you consider your options. You choose when you’re ready.
Inside the app
Find your footing when decisions pull you in every direction.
A session starts with what you bring. Short prompts give you room to explore it without having to explain everything at once.
- Speak or typeUse whichever feels easier. Start with a sentence and let the rest follow.
- Choose your counselFind a perspective that helps you approach what’s happening.
- Follow a thoughtExplore what catches your attention, including something you hadn’t expected to say.
- Take something with youA phrase that feels true. A question worth returning to. Something you want to talk about or try.
An illustrative session
Where you begin
“Something small happened today, and I can’t seem to let it go. I don’t know why it affected me so much.”
A moment to explore
- What about it has stayed with you?
- What else has been happening in your life?
- Is there anything you’ve been finding difficult to put into words?
Something you might discover
“I’m new here, and I think I’ve been trying to prove I deserve to be here. I haven’t given myself much room to be new.”
What Ganache makes space for
01
Words you haven’t found yet.
You can start with “I don’t know.” Speaking or writing gives you somewhere to begin exploring what that might hold.
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Your own perspective.
When you’ve been listening to everyone else, it can help to make room for what you think, want and notice.
03
More than the immediate reaction.
Something that happened today may sit alongside other things you’re carrying. You have space to explore that possibility without assuming a cause.
04
Movement at your pace.
Moving forward might mean a conversation, a small change or recognising something you want to understand better. It doesn’t have to happen all at once.
05
Judgement that stays yours.
Ganache offers structure and perspectives. You choose what feels relevant, what to question and where to go from there.
Who this is for
- For the person behind everything they do.
- For the person everyone turns to.
- For the person finding their feet somewhere new.
- For the person carrying a lot without knowing where to start.
- For the person who keeps going, but wants to understand what they’re going through.
You might be leading a team, studying, caring for someone or navigating a change in your own life. You don’t have to leave the rest of yourself outside.
In development
Ganache for the NHS.
We’re exploring a version that helps people keep a personal reflection record, with the option to share selected entries with their therapist.
The client chooses whether to share and which entries to include.
The scope and launch date are still being developed.
The app · Ganache
A moment to hear yourself again.
Speak or type, explore another perspective, and exercise your judgement before you act.
White paper
The judgement you use alone is the judgement that matters most.
Ganache protects it at the moment pressure acts on it. Most decisions that shape an organisation are not made in a committee — one person makes them, alone, with no one to test a doubt against before it becomes the decision.
The white paper sets out that problem, what a session does, what Ganache is and is not, the principles it holds to, and where it sits among the four expressions of Tory Harvey.
Download the white paperPDF · 3 pages