Enhance Your Professional Practice in Health & Community Settings
with the I Matter® Relationship Health Learning Journey
Supported online learning that builds understanding, awareness, and practical capability—helping you not only respond more effectively, but also enable the people you work with to become informed, engaged partners in care.
Develop the knowledge, skills, and language to better support children, young people, adults, and families within your professional role.
Become Relationship Health and I Matter® informed, or progress along structured certification pathways.
👉 Start I Matter Online Learning
👉 New here? Learn more: What is I Matter?
Who This Is For
The I Matter Framework provides a relationship health informed approach that can support a wide range of professionals working in health and community contexts.
It is for professionals who want to shift their core approach away from 'supporting clients' → to 'building informed partners in care'
This key shift is for a full variety of roles including:
- General Practitioners
- Psychiatrists
- Paediatricians
- Psychologists and therapists
- Health Visitors
- Nurses and School Nurses
- Community-based practitioners
- Youth Workers
- Social Workers
- Probation Officers
- Police Officers
- Teachers and education-linked professionals
Wherever you work with people and their relationships, this approach helps support clearer thinking, shared understanding, and more joined-up practice across services.
Why Prioritise I Matter® Learning?
In many health and community settings, professionals are working with complex needs, time pressures, and increasing demand.
The I Matter learning journey helps you build practical understanding that can be applied directly within everyday conversations and consultations.
It enables you to:
- Make sense of what you are seeing with greater clarity
- Respond with confidence in the moment
- Use language and ideas that support meaningful progress
- Reduce over-reliance on referrals, waiting lists, or fragmented pathways
Relationship Health and I Matter Informed Practice is emerging as an umbrella and foundation approach that supports professionals from different disciplines to work more effectively together.
By joining, you become part of a growing community contributing to more connected and relationship-informed ways of working.
An extra benefit is that a common challenge in practice is that professionals can find themselves carrying most of the responsibility for thinking, problem-solving, and progress.
The I Matter approach supports you to move beyond simply explaining or advising, towards helping the people you work with become more informed, engaged, and able to participate actively as partners in care.
How This Can Support You in Practice
- Strengthen your understanding of client and patient presentations
- Build confidence in your own relational awareness and communication
- Use key concepts naturally within brief consultations and interactions
- Recommend a practical resource that you have experienced yourself
- Support your organisation in developing more sustainable training approaches
- Offer 1:1 study support for individuals and families (Lead pathways)
- Provide guided support alongside online learning
- Extend your role to support other professionals (Lead Plus pathways)
- Contribute to developing relationship health informed practice within your service
The specific benefits for your clients include the fact that you will be able to
- Help clients and families develop a clearer understanding of their situation
- Support people to take a more active, informed role in their own care and decision-making
- Create a shared language that can be used between practitioner, client, and wider systems
- Reduce the sense of “carrying it all” by building shared responsibility within the work
What Practitioners Say
“This training has changed the way I practice both professionally and personally. The learning was accessible, engaging, and practical. It has improved my confidence and the way I support both patients and my own family. I want to continue learning.”
General Practitioner
“I now see my patients through a different lens. Situations that once felt overwhelming are now more understandable, and I feel more equipped to respond in helpful ways.”
General Practitioner
“I originally joined because of challenges at home with my teenager. The training has had a significant positive impact on my personal life and unexpectedly strengthened my professional confidence.”
Practice Nurse
“I Matter has been central to my role as a Social Prescriber. It shifted my focus from trying to ‘fix’ problems to supporting people to understand and develop their own relational capacity. It has made a real difference to how I work.”
Social Prescriber
Connecting with Others
As your organisation develops its approach, you may wish to connect with other community initiatives, practitioners, and local partnerships.
Locality Hubs and the wider I Matter network provide opportunities to share learning, develop practice, and contribute to more integrated support across communities.
Explore the Practitioner Directory
Explore the Locality Hub Directory
Next Steps
Community organisations can begin their I Matter learning journey in a way that fits their team size, services, and priorities.
Some organisations begin with a small group of staff, while others introduce a wider organisational approach over time.
If you are exploring how this might work in your setting, we are happy to support you.
👉 Start I Matter Online Learning
👉 New here? Learn more: What is I Matter?
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