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 understanding and practical skills so you can respond more effectively at home, at work and everyday life
Designed to grow through small supported microprojects — not overloaded referral systems.
👉 Start Your I Matter Learning Journey
New here? Explore what is I Matter?
Why this matters now?
We are living in a time of high stress and uncertainty. Many adults and young people feel overwhelmed.
Relationship challenges often sit at the heart of stress, mental health difficulties, behaviour challenges, and burnout.
Yet, most people have never been explicitly taught how relationships work and about the important role they play.
Now however there is a science that can help us find the way forward both as individuals and collectively.
So the question is:
What can you do right now to respond more effectively and support yourself and others in your home and work and community roles?
A shared learning approach for professionals, parents and individuals
🟦 What is I Matter?
I Matter is a relationship health learning system that helps people understand and respond more effectively in everyday life.
It is designed to support prevention, early intervention, and shared understanding across home, education, health, and community settings.
It is not a clinical service or therapy — it is a structured learning system.
The I Matter Small Steps Approach - Starting with Your Learning
Most meaningful change happens in small, practical steps.
The I Matter approach supports people to:
- get clear on their priorities
- start thinking about relationship health
- learn the I Matter Framework
- apply it in real situations
- build confidence through practice
I Matter is not a passive course. It is a learning system designed to support active reflection and application across a community.
How do people start?
All learning journeys begin in the same place, but people enter in different ways:
Parents-Carers
Individuals
Many begin after attending a workshop, consultation, or recommendation from a trusted professional. Direct self-start is also available.
May access independently or with support
Professionals and
Practitioners
Many begin through workplace interest, colleague referral, or direct self-start. Additional guided study support is available through this site.
May progress to run a microproject
Organisations and
Communities
Support staff or families through practical, affordable learning pathways and small pilot microprojects that build more joined up thinking
Start small and build capacity.
You can review study support options here
A professional microproject may involve initially supporting 1–3 families to access learning with light-touch study support.
🟦 What the I Matter Learning Journey helps people do
I Matter helps people:
- understand relationship patterns affecting wellbeing
- make sense of stress, behaviour, and communication
- respond more calmly and confidently in difficult situations
- improve connection between adults and children
- build shared understanding across home, school, and work
- start conversations with others
🟨 Relationship Health and I Matter® Informed - is an evidence-based foundation
The I Matter Framework draws on established research in diverse fields including:
- child development
- mental health
- communication and conflict research
- family systems understanding
It translates this research evidence into a practical, integrated, accessible learning system for everyday use across settings
How I Matter fits with existing support
I Matter does not replace existing services or interventions.
It provides a shared foundation for understanding relationship health and wellbeing across settings.
Its aim is to support clearer communication, prevention-focused thinking, and more joined-up practice.
Not Another Referral Pathway
I Matter is not designed to create unlimited referrals or waiting lists.
It is designed to:
- build practitioner confidence
- empower individuals to take action to help themselves
- start conversations in homes, schools and communities
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
Getting started
👉 Start Your I Matter Learning Journey
👉Support a Journey
I Matter helps people make sense of relationship health in everyday life.
With greater understanding, people can respond more calmly, think more clearly, and support others more effectively — even in challenging situations.
Start small. Learn deeply. Build capability that lasts.
Explore Free
Learning
Start exploring ideas and understanding of relationship health in your own roles.
Explore at your own pace
+ Free resources
+ Introductory learning
+ YouTube + guides
Start LearningStart Your I Matter
Learning Journey
For parents, professionals and practitioner-parents ready to commit to learning and making changes
+ Progress own learning journey
+ Option for practitioner training
+ Microproject training options
Support a Journey for Staff or Families
For schools, GP practices, and organisations building internal capability for RH informed practice.
+ Support a motivated practitioner
+ Enable microproject practice locally
+ Build real-world insight
Support a Journey-
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
53 Stramongate
Kendal
La94BH
United Kingdom
