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?
We are living in a time of high pressure and uncertainty. Many adults and young people feel overwhelmed.
Many of the pressures we see today — in behaviour, mental health, school attendance, family stress, and workforce burnout — are connected to varied forms of relationship challenges.
Yet most people have never been explicitly taught how relationships work.
I Matter brings together research and practice into a simple, practical learning approach.
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 practical relationship health learning approach for everyday life.
It helps people understand behaviour, stress, and communication in themselves and others — at home, at work, and in community roles.
It is not therapy or treatment.
It is structured learning designed to build understanding and confidence through real-life application.
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
- reflect on what works
- 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.
We call this approach “lighting a candle” — doing what is possible, even when things feel difficult.
How do people start?
There are two ways into learning:
- Self-funded learning
- Funded learning through partner organisations
👉 All learning begins with an Online Introduction, after which you choose your next step.
Some people access the I Matter programme through a school, GP practice, or organisation and will receive a link provided through that route.
Professionals and
Practitioners
Self-funded learning or participation through organisational microprojects.
👉 Option to progress into practitioner microprojects over time
Parents-Carers
Individuals
Self-funded learning or supported access via microprojects in partner organisations.
👉 Some pathways may be accessed via trusted professionals or local programmes
Organisations and
Communities
Support staff, families, and communities through small-scale pilots and structured learning pathways..
👉 Build local capacity over time
🟦 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.
How I Matter fits with existing support
I Matter is not designed as a referral pathway or replacement for services.
It supports adults who want to learn, reflect, and build relational capability over time.
It also helps connect up varied well-evidenced approaches through shared language and prevention-focused learning.
Not a referral pathway
I Matter is not designed to create waiting lists or replace services.
It supports motivated adults who want to learn, reflect, and build capability over time.
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
Ways to Get Started
I Matter helps people make sense of how to improve 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.
STEADY PATH
Explore Entry
Learning
Explore ideas and resources at your own pace
Free content
Introductions
Learn about the Wheel
FAST TRACK
Progress Your
I Matter Journey
Structured learning and
progression opportunities
Workshops
Level 1-2 Learning
Practitioner Training
VIA ORGANISATIONS
Support a Journey for Staff or Families
Support staff, families, and communities
Support a motivated practitioner
Develop Local Microprojects
Help Build Local Capability
I Matter is an active development project - are you Interested in contributing?
Help shape the next stage 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
