For professionals
What Comia is, and what is actually in it.
Comia is a library of filmed communication scenes. Each one stops at the moment the conversation turns, asks the viewer what they would say, then plays out the consequence of the line they choose and names what that line did. The viewer leaves with a single sentence to keep.
There is no practice regime, no daily commitment and no assessment. This page is the detail behind the library: what is in it, how a scene is constructed, and how licensing and referral work.
How the library is organised
Two levels. A topic is the part of someone's life the conversation belongs to. Filed under each topic are the recurring situations that go wrong there, and each situation holds the scenes for it. A viewer picks a topic, then a situation, then a scene — or searches for the situation directly.
| Topic | Situations filed under it |
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| You and your partner |
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| Your family |
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| Your friends |
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| At work |
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Situations are named in the first person, in the language someone would use about themselves — “You say it is fine when it is not” rather than “avoidance”. This is deliberate and it is the organising principle of the whole catalogue: a person who cannot name their pattern can still recognise their situation. A taxonomy that needs a glossary is one the people who need it most cannot navigate.
What a scene contains
Scripted dialogue performed by actors, filmed as a single continuous situation. Partway through, at the point where the conversation could still go either way, the scene stops and offers a set of things the viewer could say. Each option is speech — a line, not a description of a line.
Every option carries its own continuation showing what that line does in the room, and a plain-language verdict on the mechanism. Options are not scored and the viewer is not graded. Roughly one option per fork is constructive; the others fail in recognisably different ways rather than being obviously wrong, because an obviously wrong option teaches nothing.
Each scene resolves to one takeaway sentence, which is retained in the viewer's account. That sentence is the only artefact the product asks anyone to keep.
The five aspects
Scenes are built so that the fork puts one of these under pressure. It is a framework for construction, not a diagnostic instrument, and nothing in the product profiles or classifies the viewer.
- Self-awareness
- Catch your own pattern and trigger in the moment, because you can't change a reaction you can't see.
- Emotional regulation
- Stay present when it heats up. Hold the half-second before you snap or go quiet, and respond instead of react.
- Clear expression
- Say what you actually mean in a way the other person can take in, without the attack and without the watered-down version.
- Deep listening
- Hear what's underneath their words, instead of loading your reply while they're still talking.
- Adaptability
- Read what this person and this moment need, and adjust, instead of running the same move every time.
Who writes the scenes, and who reviews them
Not published yet — needs sign-off
This section states who authors the situations, what their clinical background is, and who signs off a script before it is filmed. It is unwritten because nobody currently owns the review step, and it is the one claim on this page a reader is most likely to verify.
Fill this in only once the process is real and someone is named and accountable for it. Until then this block stays visible, so the page cannot be sent out implying a review that has not happened.
What Comia does not do
It does not diagnose, screen, trial or treat. It does not name a viewer's pattern back to them, does not build a psychological profile, and produces no clinical output of any kind. There is no evidence base claimed for it as an intervention, and it should not be described to a client as one.
The honest positioning is a rehearsal aid and a shared reference point — something a person can watch between sessions so that a moment you both want to talk about is one you have both seen.
Licensing
You can buy access to the library for the people you work with, and you can commission scenes for situations specific to them. The price depends on how many people need access and whether new scenes are being made, so there is no published figure.
Email hello@comia.app with roughly how many people it is for and what you are trying to solve. You will get a price and a list of what it includes.
Referral
Not published yet — needs sign-off
This section describes what a practitioner gets when they point a client at Comia — whether there is a referral link, what (if anything) is reported back, and what the client sees. None of that mechanism is built, so nothing is asserted here.
What is true today: the library is free, and a practitioner can send someone a direct link to a specific situation with no licence and no arrangement of any kind on your side. The viewer creates a free account of their own, which is what their kept sentences attach to; nothing about that account is visible to you.
Privacy
What a viewer watches and keeps exists to make their own library coherent. It is not sold on and it is not shared. A viewer can delete it at any point. Full detail is in the privacy policy.