BSP Pathway Program
For budding Behaviour Support Practitioners seeking entry and support for the NDIS Alternate Pathway: Training, Supervision, Mentoring, paid on the job experience, and Endorsement*.
*Applicants must pass a 30 minute interview and successfully complete NDIS core practitioner requirements. Training costs involved. Currently Sydney residents only.
Lifehackers’ BSP Pathway Program
The Lifehackers BSP 6-month Pathway Program was developed to support emerging practitioners working toward the NDIS Alternate Pathway. The program provides structured training, supervision, mentorship, and to those selected, supported paid practice opportunities designed to build the knowledge, skills, and experience required for Behaviour Support Practitioner endorsement.
Program Structure
Part 1 – Training: Weeks 1–6
Participants complete six 2-hour workshops covering the technical and practical skills required for Behaviour Support Practice, with the final session focused on practical steps for moving forward depending on partcipant needs.
Part 2 – Experience: Week 6 onwards
Selected participants transition into supported experiential learning (subject to receiving a suitability ID from the NDIA), including:
- Experiential Learning – learning on the job through supervised practice
- Ongoing mentoring and coaching
- Monthly supervision and monthly Community of Practice (group supervision)
Additional Program Features
- Small cohort sizes
- Supported pathway toward meeting NDIS Core/Alternate Pathway requirements over a 12-month period.
- Opportunity for ongoing paid contract work for selected practitioners following program completion.
Paid Practice Opportunities
Following the initial 6-week training period, selected participants may begin paid supervised work opportunities, provided they are meeting program and role expectations.
Indicative rates:
- First 3-6 months after Part 1: $60–80 per hour
- Remaining program period: $80–100 per hour (depending on experience and competency development)
Participant Expectations
Participants are expected to:
- Attend training, supervision, and Community of Practice sessions
- Appropriately manage allocated caseload responsibilities
- Complete progress notes for all tasks
- Demonstrate initiative and commitment to ongoing learning and reflective practice
Selection Process
Applicants participate in a 30-minute online or in-person interview process.
Program Fee
Program fee: $4,000 + GST
Payment plans are available.
This fee covers the structured training program, group supervision, and supported learning components delivered across the program. Endorsement is not guaranteed and remains dependent on participants meeting all relevant competency and NDIS requirements.
CEO & Mentor: Katrina Loukas
Lifehackers was founded by social entrepreneur Katrina Loukas, author, trainer, facilitator, coach, holistic psychotherapist, and behaviourial/psychosocial intervention specialist. Katrina is both the clinical lead for our disability interventions; and the corporate lead for our psychosocial hazard management solutions.
Katrina’s expertise has shaped the company into the out-of-the-box people development company it is today. Her experience as a process-oriented psychotherapist shapes the company’s deeply democratic approach; while her expertise as a mathematician & statistical modeller makes our intervention analyses and evaluations both trustworthy and extraordinary.
Katrina knows data and she sure knows heart. She looks forward to working with you!
Your Supervisor: Natalie Carpenter
From Neuroinclusive Supports
Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner (PB1505274) | Social Worker | Clinical Supervisor | Master of Education – Behaviour Analysis (Student, Monash University)
Natalie has over 12 years’ experience supporting children, adults, and families across the disability, mental health, and family support sectors. She is passionate about helping people thrive through understanding, practical strategies, and genuine collaboration.
As a qualified Social Worker and NDIS-Accredited Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner, Natalie brings a warm, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming approach to her work. Her experience spans early intervention, behaviour assessment, leadership of transdisciplinary teams, positive behaviour support and clinical supervision.
Natalie is currently completing her Master of Education in Behaviour Analysis through Monash University and continues to build her expertise in evidence-based, person-centred practice. She believes that effective behaviour support is built on empathy, respect, and strong partnerships, ensuring that every plan honours the person’s individuality, strengths, and quality of life.
Working at Lifehackers.
We dig deep to understand. We seek to WOW. We give village-vibes.
Love is at the forefront of our work. And we’re just really fun to be around!
Vision
Our vision is that our every product and service will surprise and transform as we generate a movement: murmurations of people co-creating abundant futures and happy spaces.
Our Driving Values
Our teams create murmurs that softly combine, emerging gently, push-pushing into activating potency, unleashing entelechy: the vital force that directs life toward ‘perfection’ (a perpetual movement not a destination).
For this we need our values to drive our decisions. They are not just values, they are our way of life. They make use STARLings because we are:
Sensitized: we are empathic, real, deeply understanding
Trailblazers: we are innovative, creative, courageous game changers, we gently push-push ‘new trails’
Aware: we are mindful, curious, reflective; we gently and timely know when to push-push
Rational: we are grounded, ingenious, evidence-based data gurus
Light: and fun: we strategically create village vibes
We optimize technology to minimize our time away from in-person interactions. We optimize data analysis to maximize the sustainability of our work.
Lifehackers Institute is pioneering a new way for busy-ness; reshaping it as an enactment in sacred service where creativity breeds magic breeds transformation of lives both for clients and their network.
We are currently predominantly servicing the NDIS industry and pleased to align our commitment to the NDIS’s mission statement namely: “We help people with disability be more independent, find work, study and have greater choice and control over how they want to live their life.”
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