Lux
Lux is Foundation Nova Diem’s strengths-first assessment, built to help people understand their own strengths, patterns and potential, in language suited to reflection rather than judgement.
About Foundation Nova Diem
We help people be seen through their strengths.
We are an Australian charity working to make strengths and potential a more useful starting point, for people and for those supporting them.
Why we exist
People facing disadvantage and neurodivergence are often described by what is wrong or missing.
Foundation Nova Diem helps disadvantaged and neurodiverse communities discover the strengths within themselves, starting with people, not deficits.
How Lux helpsWhat we believe
Our approach, in plain words.
We believe everyone has strengths, not just problems.
We built Lux to help people see those strengths.
We are honest about what our evidence does and doesn’t prove yet.
Our history
From Project NOVI to Lux.
Project NOVI is retired historical context; Lux replaced it as the current assessment work.
2023
Foundation and early work
The founding-year public record describes the early Project NOVI assessment work.
2024
Development and partnership learning
The second annual report records the then-current Project NOVI journey, development work and a partnership case study.
Current
Lux and Lumen
Project NOVI is retired. Lux is the current descriptive assessment, administered through Lumen, with an active staged evidence programme.
How we do it
Lux, our assessment. Lumen, the platform behind it.
Participants receive insight written for them. Where authorised, the clinicians and educators supporting them receive a deeper technical view to use alongside their own professional judgement, never in place of it.
Lumen
Lumen is the secure platform that runs Lux, connecting consent, governed scoring and the right report for the right person.
Honest about where the evidence stands
We claim only what the evidence supports.
Our evidence standard
Lux is descriptive, not diagnostic, predictive or a personnel-selection instrument.
It’s moving through an active, staged evidence-development programme, and we’re careful never to overstate what’s currently proven.
Read our evidence standardPublic accountability
Registered, governed and open to scrutiny.
Australian charityRegistered with the ACNC
Our workLux assessment and Lumen platform
Current stageActive, staged evidence development
Public accountabilityAnnual reports and named governance
Foundation Nova Diem (ABN 52 664 857 827) is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and holds Deductible Gift Recipient status.
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Help move strengths-first work forward.
Help the Foundation continue its strengths-first work with care and accountability.