FUN FACTS BEHIND THE PROGRAMS* NAME…

a) When leaving the army, it is 7 clicks to freedom, 7 clicks on the computer mouse to end your army career. Therefore, the natural order of things was the next stage to be the 7 steps, the Survival kit for Civvy street which leads to Freedom, control and empowerment.

b) When you joined the armed forces, you may be trained to become a soldier but not retrained to become a civilian. This happens often if your armed forces career is cut short through medical discharge or to early service leavers (4 years or less). We have people in their 60’s 70’s still struggling with this aspect of life. We need to reprogram?

c) Decades ago, program appeared in both American and British writing. In the nineteenth century we started to favour the French way of spelling it—programme. However, Program can also function as a verb. It means to reset, regulate to produce a specific result. Hence, the 7-step civilian Skills PROGRAM is exactly that, to retrain, to re-program to make adaption less problematic and in turn, improve mental wellbeing. Therefore, next time when someone asks why STEPWAY? Why the misspelt ‘program’ in the title, you have the answer.

LAST FUN FACT… How many letters are in the word STEPWAY ?