Become Relationship Health and I Matter Informed 

Relationship Health Needs Attention!

Therapists and Coaches including counsellors, parent educators — all play a pivotal role in supporting individuals through challenging times and relationships are often a key element of the work.  However relationship health is an idea that - to date - rarely gets discussed.  In this regard, your skills, knowledge, and confidence directly impact children, adults, families, and communities.

The I Matter Framework equips therapists, counsellors, and coaches with practical understanding, tools, and strategies for introducing complex topics, progressing conversations, and support access to learning that can empower clients through strengthening understanding and skills, support better collaboration across settings, and improve outcomes for young people and adults..

I Matter Training is not seeking to replace professional expertise — it is about enhancing insights and skills to improve outcomes.

Why join as a Therapist or Coach?

• Build confidence in relationship based thinking across your setting

• Understand and apply the insights from the I Matter Framework in everyday work

• Empower your clients with better understanding

• Have tools to help you strengthen adult-adult, adult-child, and cross-system relationships

• Access CPD-aligned learning pathways

• Collaborate more effectively with schools, primary care, and community organisations

Building a Shared Relationship-Health Foundation

Relationship health is a vital part of overall wellbeing. In primary care, supporting families, young people, and individuals to develop reflective understanding of relationships can reduce stress, improve communication, and enhance outcomes.

Our aim is to make it possible for staff and parents and young people to access relationship health and I Matter informed practice, supported by access to the I Matter Learning Journey creating opportunities for reflective learning, joined-up thinking, and shared problem-solving within our practice.

The professionals role is to enable access and promote engagement, not to deliver the training. We aim to build readiness and motivation in professionals and clients so they are able to move forward with new skills

Our Vision for Therapists and Coachess

“We want to make it possible for professionals and practitioners to access  I Matter Training so that more people can be informed with the language of relationship health and I Matter Informed practice supported by access to the I Matter Learning Journey. The goal is to enable more reflective individual learning, shared language, and joined-up thinking across professionals, patients and clients and families.”

Therapists and Coaches Stepwise I Matter Learning Journey

Explore the Free Resources

• Check out the website

• Look at the books and podcast
  

• Join the Curious about Relationship Health Community
• Talk to others in your family and school and community

Decision point: Decide whether to explore further learning and practical support

Phase 1: Join a Get Started Workshop and the Wheel  (This is a Taster)

• USUALLY VIA LOCALITY HUB BUT SOMETIMES VIA CURIOUS ABOUT COMMUNITY

• Talk with your primary care practice or school about accessing a Get Started if they are already involved

• Look out for one off opportunities advertised via Curious About Relationship Health

• Join some Community Wheel sessions and start thinking about relationship health as a life skills approach

• Support those who are interested in learning more in your home, school or community

Decision point: Decide whether you want to learn more and who could provide informed support

Phase 1b: Request a Priorities Consultation (optional for professionals)

• ONLY VIA LOCALITY HUBS

• Relationship health is something that can improve when we learn new skills

• A consultation can help you think about what needs attention

• Strengthen consistent approaches across settings

Decision point: What are the issues, I want to address, and are there some skills I want to learn to move things on?

Phase 2: Sign up to Learn the I Matter Framework (this is the core training for professionals)

• USUALLY VIA LOCALITY HUB BUT SOMETIMES VIA CURIOUS ABOUT COMMUNITY

• Access funded or self-funded early intervention online learning to learn the I Matter Framework

• Access study support via a participating organisation which is funded or self funded

Decision point: Am I ready to make time to study the I Matter Framework and strengthen my skills

Phase 2-3: Living I Matter: Decide how to progress your ongoing learning

• Decide if you have learned enough or want to keep going (though remember that this is a life long learning process!)

• Identify routines, communication patterns, and practices that work to promote relationship health in your setting

• Keep learning through communities or follow-up resources (membership or phase 3)

• Focus on building wellbeing for both children and adults so that 

• Work with informed others to ensure your professional and practitioner skills benefit your commitment

Therapists and Coaches Commitments & Funding

Commitment 1 - I am building a Relationship Health and I Matter Informed Staff Team

“I am part of a growing inhouse team who are relationship health and I Matter Informed”.   My team and I can:

• Offer: Relationship health and I Matter informed consultations for staff and families and young people: 

• Links: support clients in accesing more learning opportunities locally and inhouse

• Leads: Offer periodic responsive workshops that address needs of our own community

• Funding: We can support clients and colleagues in accessing funded and self-funded learning 
  

Commitment 2 – I am working with others to provide a range of support Pathways (Self-Funded or Subsidised)

“We are developing our ability to provide a programme of provision”.   This team can support access to

• Phase 1 Get Started Workshops: Open to all
• Phase 2 Supported Learning: Targetted facilitated self-paced or group learning (staff or patients)
  

• Phase 3 Intensive / Specialist: Individual coaching or specialist referral
  
  

Key principle: We aim to have funding for high reach Tier 1 sessions and priorities consultations and self-paced Phase 2 online learning; but optional higher-support access is self-funded or subsidised as part of targetted projects, keeping workload manageable.

Commitment 3 – We are building on our longer term aspirations for more relationship health in our communities

“We are developing our ability to provide relationship health and informed practice as an embedded part of all of our practice.  Goals are to

• Increase access to more of our community

• Build understanding and skills of staff, parents and young people

• See measurable impact on wellbeing for all parties
  
  
  

Indicative Costs

• Phase 1 Inhouse Get Started sessions offered each term/half term at £95pp with discounts on bulk booking or inhouse delivery

• Includes 4 x monthly Online wheel sessions then £15pa self funded
• Optional in house wheel sessions offered monthly by staff team - as community building

• Phase 2 Targetted - Priorities consultations £100pp + access to self-paced online £347pp or £495 with small group for 4 months
  

• Discounts on bulk purchases -Accessed by a handful of patients under organisation license: optional self-funded

• Phase 3 Extended/Intensive/specialist - can be 'recommended' but not funded by primary care - from £995 for 8 months
  
  
• Principle:  Delivery is a partnership process between I Matter Training and your I Matter Informed inhouse team.  Tier 1 provides the universal, funded baseline; Tier 2 and Tier 3 are opt-in, self-funded or subsidised, keeping the programme safe, scalable, and manageable.
  

Practitioner Training Options 

• I Matter Informed Professional:  Join Relationship Health In Professional Practice
  

• I Matter Link Professional:   Be an informed point of contact for those who want to learn more
• I Matter Lead Professional:  Develop local responsive workshops and provide study support for online learning
• I Matter Lead Plus Professional:  Assist with Priorities Consultations and Strategic Developments for your team

• Principle:  Professionals can integrate relationship health and I Matter informed thinking into their routine practices or can become an active part of a team supporting others in progressing an I Matter Learning Journey

Practical Embedding Example

All Services:  I Matter Posters on the walls or in consults provide reference for starting conversations and emphasising learning and shared thinking

Small practice: Weekly staff huddles review Phase 1 & 2 modules. Teachers integrate reflective micro-practices in classroom transitions and check-ins. Parents receive weekly prompts via newsletters. Tier 2 optional support self-funded by small numbers of parents.

Larger practice: Ag related relational champions facilitate fortnightly reflection sessions. Modules available asynchronously to staff and parents. Reflection integrated into team meetings, events newsletters. Tier 2 groups scheduled termly, capped per cohort; Tier 3 specialist coaching accessed externally and self-funded.

What Professionals Don’t Have to Do

• Deliver parenting or child-specific content unless part of their role

• Replace therapeutic or clinical responsibilities

• Work in isolation — I Matter supports collaboration

The framework enhances professional practice and supports system-wide relationship health literacy without adding unnecessary burden.

How This Fits With Professional Priorities

• Contributes to CPD and professional standards

• Supports safeguarding, inclusion, and wellbeing mandates

• Enhances multi-agency collaboration

• Prioritises Staff wellbeing and reflective practice

• Builds on extensive evidence-informed relational approaches

Who This Helps Most

• Practitioners supporting children, families, or adults in education, health, or community settings

• Professionals working across agencies or systems

• Teams with a remit to promote more prevention and early intervention

• Leaders seeking to embed relationship health into organisational culture

• Anyone looking to improve relational confidence in their professional role

Training Access — The First Steps

To create safe, scalable access for individuals and families we begin by training key practitioners. Once trained, a team  or organisation can receives an organisation account with licenced access to Phase 1 & Phase 2.

• Step 1: Staff sign up for professional training (Phase 1 & 2)

• Step 2: Team gains organisation-level access

• Step 3: Inhouse team support access to training for clients at their own pace

• Step 4: Options for staff to access ongoing professional development
  
  
  

Kendal Parent Pilot — A Boundaried Access Route

For families in Kendal linked to participating schools with an approved I Matter Link professional, we are running a controlled pilot where parents can access Phase 1 & Phase 2, with optional small-group reflections. This pilot is designed to be manageable, supportive, and safe — and will inform future broader roll-outs.

• Self-paced online access to Phase 1 & 2

• Optional monthly reflection sessions in small groups

• Limited places to ensure manageability and safety

• Funding: Self-funded beyond baseline school access if parents want additional support

Contact us if you have questions

Next Steps

1. Join the Curious About Relationship Health Community

2. Review the training steps
3. Review the upcoming dates

4. Express an interest in professional training

5. Review the pricing information
6. Contact us if you have questions

Join the Curious About Relationship Health Professional Community (Free)
Express and  interest in Professional Training
Contact us if you have questions