Story-led training for public service

Training your officers will actually finish.

ambivalence is an ambitious new learning platform, built at the leading edge of the science of how people learn. It is made for people working in government, local government, the wider public sector and not-for-profit organisations. Short cinematic stories put them inside the decisions their organisations are making now; every choice is scored against a published competency framework and earns a verifiable digital badge they keep.

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S1E3 · The Transportable · opening, 35 seconds Free to watch in full on ambivalence.app
16 Episodes, two seasons
9×4 Competency grid
OB3 Portable credentials
RM6219 Listing in progress
Latest releases

Season 2 is out. Season 3 is in production.

Written into the reforms of 2026 as they landed. See every episode →

A murmuration of starlings over a civic building, in black and white. S2 · E08 The Loop An observatory on a snow-covered mountain ridge. S2 · E07 The Assembly A lighthouse in a storm, waves breaking over the rock. S2 · E06 Letter Before Action Two planning officers at a desk beside a window onto the river. S2 · E05 The Levy
In production Season 3 Now being written and shot. Episodes are announced as they are released.

Free training teaches the rules. These are for the decisions.

The subjects councils are living through in 2026, which free e-learning doesn't reach.

A reorganisation under review

The Line That Divides, The Migration, The Rivers of the Watershed

A judicial review of a reorganisation

Letter Before Action

Environmental Delivery Plans

The Levy

Neighbourhood Boards and £20 million

Twenty Million Pounds and a Neighbourhood

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The platform

LOOK reads the news. LEARN puts you inside the decision.

ambivalence is one platform with two modes, and you can try both now without signing up.

LOOK

Today's civic and local-government stories, each folded into a model you open part by part: the summary, the full story, its topics and impact, its sources, then the counterpoints.

LEARN

Short cinematic episodes that pause for you to choose, rank, reflect or reveal. Every decision is scored against a published rubric.

Open ambivalence.app → Browse the episodes
ambivalence, n.
Holding competing ideas in view, without rushing to decide.

Not indecision. Taking time with complexity, and with views that come from different lived experience. That is the habit the episodes are built to practise.

Achievements you keep

Every decision grows the crystal. Every badge goes with you.

The LEARN screen on ambivalence.app: the episode library on the left, the crystal in the centre and the Citation Atlas on the right.
  1. 1
    The library

    Every episode, with the badges it can award. 4 are free to watch.

  2. 2
    The crystal

    Nine faces, one for each knowledge domain. Each badge grows mineral formations on its domain's face; a perfect run fills every face the episode teaches.

  3. 3
    The Citation Atlas

    The research behind each episode, from regulators to academic work, with every source citable.

The Season 1 badge collection: nine personas, each with four tiers.

From a decision to a credential on LinkedIn

  1. Earned in the story

    Cross a rubric threshold and you earn a persona badge at one of four tiers, from Foundation to Transformative. Nine personas, 36 badges in all.

  2. Signed and verifiable

    Sign in and each badge is saved as an Open Badges 3.0 credential that anyone can check at its public link, with no account needed.

  3. Exported in a click

    Add it to your LinkedIn profile under Licences & certifications, post it, copy the verification link, or download it.

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  4. Yours for good

    It outlasts the licence, a reorganisation and a change of employer.