In times of pressure, your skills for relationship health and resilience matter more than ever. Start an I Matter® Relationship Health Learning Journey
Build practical understanding so you can respond more effectively at home, work, and in everyday life
Designed as a small-steps learning approach for prevention and early help.
👉 Start Your I Matter Learning Journey
New Here: What is I Matter?
Why this matters now
Many of the challenges we experience today — in home life, schools, workplaces and communities — are connected to relationships that are under pressure.
Daily life can be impacted by conflicts and communication challenges and by challenging behaviour, mental health issues and experiences of overwhelm.
Yet most people have never been explicitly taught how relationships work.
I Matter brings together research and practice into a practical learning approach.
It provides foundation understanding for managing these common everyday life demands with more awareness, understanding and skills.
The purpose is to help determined professionals, parents- carers and individuals respond more effectively when under pressure in everyday adult-adult and adult-child situations.
Our Small Steps Approach
Meaningful change usually happens in small, practical steps.
The I Matter Learning Journey supports people to progress understanding and skills steadily and intentionally by
- Learning the I Matter framework
- applying ideas in real life
- reflecting on what works
- building confidence through practice
The goal is active learning through application and reflection over time.
Ways to Begin
Choose the route that best fits your situation:
- start free
- join independently
- or access through an organisation
Start small. Learn deeply. Build insights and skills that last.
START FREE
Free Introduction to Relationship Health
A short, simple starting point to help you understand:
What relationship health is
Why it matters in everyday life
How the I Matter approach works
Designed to orient you to the issues
FREE AND LOW COST
Varied content to start your learning
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING
The I Matter Learning Journey
A structured self-paced learning pathway:
Understand relationships and stress
Respond more calmly and effectively
Build confidence in real-life situations
Apply the I Matter Five Steps process
Includes:
Core I Matter Framework learning
Practical tools to support reflection
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE
A flexible learning journey with different ways to begin and progress
VIA ORGANISATIONS
Join via Your School, GP, or Organisation
Assisted access to:
Core learning materials
Workforce development pathways
Family learning pathways
Practitioner-supported learning
Local learning communities
Speak to your local professionals
ASSISTED ACCESS
With varied levels of study support
What the I Matter Learning Journey helps people do
I Matter helps people:
- understand relationship patterns affecting wellbeing
- respond more calmly and confidently under pressure
- improve communication and connection
- support children, families, and colleagues
- build shared understanding across roles
Evidence-informed approach
Relationship Health informed by the I Matter Framework draws on research from:
- child development
- mental health
- communication and relationships
- family and systems thinking
It brings this into a practical and engaging learning model for everyday use.
The I Matter Framework is not designed to replace other well evidenced approaches
Instead it aims is to help make sense of the connections between them with a view to developing more accessible shared language and prevention-focused learning.
How I Matter fits with existing support
I Matter provides a flexible resource that can be used by individuals and services who want to know what they can do to make a positive difference.
It supports adults who want to learn, reflect, and build understanding and skills for more relationship health over time.
Who can I Matter help?
I Matter learning can support those who want to make time to be prepared for healthier relationships and for important professional, parenting-caring and leadership roles.
It can also help those who want to address a challenging situation - by making time and space to step back and reflect as part of finding the way forward.
For Organisations
I Matter offers a practical, affordable way to:
- invest in prevention
- grow workforce capability
- support a small number of families well
- avoid unsustainable demand models
- generate learning before scaling
I Matter is also an active development project - are you interested in contributing?
Help shape the next stages of the I Matter Learning Journey.
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I Matter Training
The Kendal Integrated Care Community has adopted the I Matter Framework as a foundation for how we work together to support people who are struggling. Professionals and non-professionals are learning together.
Dr Amy Lee , GP Safeguarding Lead Kendal Integrated Care Community
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I Matter Training
We are working with increasingly complex and unmet needs in schools. I Matter helps give structure, shared language, and a foundation for working with families in a more connected way.
School Leader , Pastoral Roles, Class Teacher and Parent
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I Matter Training
Considering adults’ needs alongside children’s needs has been transformative. I realised how much my own stress was affecting my family, and that changing this changes everything.
Parent , Parent of teenager with challenges
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I Matter Training
I Matter has influenced my work and home life in very practical ways — from professional practice to parenting and business decisions. It has changed how I understand myself, and my clients, in relationships under pressure.
Independent Psychotherapist , Parent and Small Business Owner
53 Stramongate
Kendal
La94BH
United Kingdom
