AMBIT is in some senses a way of working with young people or adult clients whose Relationship to help is non-conventional or troubled, and before they are ready to receive more mainstream forms of help.

Active Planning provides:

A FRAMEWORK for developing relationships where Epistemic Trust can be established

And together with the other elements of AMBIT seeks to provide:

CONTEXTS in which sustainable therapeutic change is most likely to become possible

AMBIT aims to capture - from research-based Evidence, workers, and Experts By Experience - some of the key dilemmas that workers experience, and to collect evidence-based practices that may assist with managing this, which are described as the Core Features of AMBIT.