In times of pressure, your skills for relationship health and resilience become more important than ever. Start an I Matter® Relationship Health Learning Journey
Build the understanding to think clearly and respond effectively — even when it’s hard.
Practical insights and tools for real-life situations — helping adults, families, professionals and communities to support each other.
Because strengthening relationship health and resilience starts with the adults
We are living in a time of high stress and uncertainty. Adults and children as well as schools and organisations alike are facing pressures that can sometimes feel overwhelming. So what can YOU do right now to help yourself and help others manage more easily as pressures increase?
Our psychoeducational approach is practical, and for all roles
You can get started with I Matter self help learning today
Developed for both professionals and families training in the I Matter® Framework and the Five Steps to Success helps make sense of challenging situations by drawing together a wide range of research in child development, parenting, mental health and conflict management in a practical form.
I Matter Traning aims to address some missing elements of recent and current practice by building understanding of the importance of relationship skills and resilience to wellbeing.
Training helps individuals and teams respond more confidently to challenges. It helps clarify directions, build insight and competencies, prevent problems and reduce unnecessary escalation.
When you learn the I Matter Framework you know you will have some strong foundations for your everyday decision making.
Priority 1:
I have a Personal Wellbeing or Parent-Carer Interest
Supporting Yourself and/or Your Child and Family I Matter Training gives parents and carers strong foundations to understand what’s happening, respond calmly, work as an effective team with other adults and help children and vulnerable adults manage challenges with more confidence.
Priority 2:
I have a Professional or Practitioner Interest
Preparing for more confidence and effectiveness in your work roles I Matter Training equips teaching staff, health staff, and youth workers with practical insights, strategies and a shared language and tools to help make everyday interactions more effective — in schools, clinics, and community settings.
Start Professional Learning
Priority 3:
I am an Organisation or Nursery or School
Leader
Stronger Teams, Resilient Communities The I Matter approach helps organisations and teams progress relationship health and resiliency insights into organisation practice. It can support more confident teams, more resilient children and families, and empowered local leaders
Explore Organisation Licensing I Matter Training is not another parenting method or therapy model. It offers core education for relationship health and skills for resiliency. Sometimes relationships are very challenging, it is then that resilience matters.
Watch a Short Video: What is I Matter?
How it works?
Learn the Ideas
Practice
Extend your learning over time!
WHY RELATIONSHIP HEALTH MATTERS?
When relationships struggle, everything struggles.
We see it locally and globally.
Stress states, conflict, mental health, behaviour issues, anxiety, depression, burnout, and communication difficulties commonly have their roots in relationship health difficulties. Yet most people have never been taught how relationships really work.
Training in the I Matter Framework helps you take charge of what you can change, and let go of what you can't so you can feel more confident, more connected and more aware of the important contributions you can make even in challenging everyday situations.
THE I MATTER LEARNING JOURNEY HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
I Matter is structured in phases that individuals and organisations can progress in a flexible fashion.
FREE
Introduction
Learn why this project started and why it is needed
Phase 1
Get Started
Discover the I Matter Model
and the Community Wheel
Phase 2
Fundamentals
Learn the I Matter Framework Relationship Health Theory
Phase 3
Deep Dive
Progress Theory to Practice with Deep Dive Learning
I MATTER LEARNING CAN BE PROGRESSED IN VARIED WAYS.
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Self-help self-paced online learning is the foundation
ideal for flexibility when there is a need to gain a general understanding with a focus on prevention and early intervention and a desire to get started promptly - suitable for a wide variety of audiences - Some scheduled study support options for professionals and linked parents
Study support is recommended and can be informal or more formal and can include workshops and discussion and 1:1 consultations. Organisations can purchase licenses and develop pathways. -
Personalised coaching… with experienced local practitioners
I Matter can be used as a targeted intervention with personalised coaching of varied levels of intensity enabling participants to have the benefits of learning to approach challenging situations.
I Matter is not a therapy or clinical intervention.
It helps people make better sense of ideas they may already be familiar with.
With greater understanding, everyone can make a difference in their own lives, relationships, and work.
HOW I MATTER TRAINING MAKES A DIFFERENCE?
We strengthen adults before asking them to support children
We build understanding, over time not just quick fix strategies
We offer staged five steps learning, not pressure to “do it all”
We support real-world application, not short-term initiatives
We help join up different ideas into a stronger approach
Improving adult and child well-being
for difficult times starts with solid foundations!
The I Matter Community Wheel helps with theory into practice.
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GENERAL RELATIONSHIP HEALTH EDUCATION
PREPARATION FOR PROFESSIONAL AND PARENTING ROLES
STRENGTHENING CONFIDENCE - EARLY INTERVENTION
RECOVERY OF RELATIONSHIP HEALTH
SUPPORTING THOSE WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS
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I Matter Training
The Kendal Integrated Care Community has adopted the I Matter Framework as a foundation for our thinking about how to work together in our community to help those who are struggling. Professionals and non-professionals are learning together. It feels good.
Dr Amy Lee , GP Safeguarding Lead Kendal Integrated Care Community
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I Matter Training
The I Matter approach of considering the adults needs alongside those of the children is such a useful way to look at things and has turned the dynamics on its head for me. I have realised my stress levels are having a huge impact on all of us as a family and learning to change this is starting to make a difference.
Parent , parent of teenager with challenges
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I Matter Training
EVERY teacher and parent would benefit from this programme. Parent carers are a group of people I would like to get this to. This would be a fantastic opportunity to bring a very isolated group of people together to improve the situation they are in.
Carer support professional , Children and adults of all ages
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I Matter Training
I am a HLTA but also a parent and foster carer. I work with primary aged children, have 3 teenagers, and foster toddlers! This programme has been so valuable for each and every relationship I encounter on a daily basis.
Higher Level Teaching Assistant and Foster Carer , Trained for work and home purposes
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I Matter Training
This programme has had a big impact on my own well-being which has meant that I have been more able to cope better with the expected and unexpected aspects of life in a calmer rational manner!!
School Leader , Key Stage 4 Leader and Parent
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I Matter Training
The first videos and questions really got me thinking. I realised how isolated I had let myself become and that this was not helping me or my child. I took action the next day and phoned a friend. I also made another follow-up appointment to speak with my GP.
Anonymous , Parent
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I Matter Training
The first time I worked through the videos and questions I didn't really understand what they were all about. By the third time I really understood what was being asked. At first we were really stuck. However It has been exciting to see the progress.
Parent , Parent of child with explosive behaviour
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I Matter Training
This training has been so much more than I expected it to be. I have learned so many things that have changed my understanding of myself and of my child. I have worked with many services before this but this has really made the difference. Now I know why I Matter
Anonymous , Parent of child with additional needs
WHY INVEST YOUR TIME NOW?
"The world is becoming more challenging for young people and adults — at home, at work, and in our communities. Investing in your own understanding and skills for relationship health and confidence is urgent and time well spent".
"By learning about relationship health and an I Matter Approach, and developing your confidence and skills, you’ll be better equipped to navigate challenges, support your children and family members and teams, and create lasting positive change in home, work place and community."
ABOUT DR CATHY BETOIN
I Matter Training grew from 20+ years of clinical experience across child and adult mental health, education, community practice and family support. Today it provides grounded, accessible learning for people who want to progress healthier relationships in everyday life.
Dr Cathy Betoin, Clinical Psychologist, Teacher, Parent
53 Stramongate
Kendal
La94BH
United Kingdom
