Influences on the I Matter Framework

I Matter Relationship Health Education offers a distinctive angle on content that has a robust evidence base helping professionals and non-professionals develop a deeper understanding of the core conclusions of the research evidence on wellbeing for adults and young people. 

The teaching is solidly based on attachment, and developmental science.   The careful use of visual resources helps make complex concepts much easier to understand and relevant to a wide range of roles.

The key to being in confident relationships with children, other adults or with self is to first gain better understanding.   Once a deeper understanding is there then the nature of the actions becomes much clearer.      As such I Matter Training can complement or be a foundation for a wide range of approaches.

The I Matter Framework and I Matter Learning Journey, offers a practical, engaging, carefully structured and easy to understand integration of the work of many researchers, writers, and practitioners. 

While the concepts taught in the I Matter Framework are solidly grounded in decades of research on stress, attachment theory, CBT & DBT, for which there is a vast research base, the difference in I Matter lies is in how we present these concepts, using a series of visual graphics which makes the foundation ideas very memorable and user-friendly, helping everyone - including the non-professional population - to learn key ideas and start to use them easily to support more confident decision making. 

The core intention has been to find a way to impact policy and practices so that professionals and parents-carers  can work more effectively in the health, education and community settings where children and adults are developing!  The research is clear that if we want to improve child and adult wellbeing we have to shift our practices.

Here are just a few of the well known researchers and practitioners whose work has informed the I Matter Training programme. 

• Dr Mary Ainsworth - Researcher - separation studies
  
• Dr Mary Sheridan - Researcher and Practitioner - Birth to Five
• Dr John Bowlby - Theorist and researcher on Attachment Theory
• Dr Richard Lazarus and Dr Susan Folkman - Researchers on stress and coping theory
  
• Dr Gordon Neufeld - Neufeld Institute - attachment-based developmental approach
• Dr Stanley Greenspan - Researcher and practitioner - children's developmental needs
• Dr Stephen Gutstein - Researcher and Practitioner in relationship approaches 
  
• Dr. Dan Siegel - Researcher, Author and Director of the Mindsight Institute
  
• Dr Bruce Perry - Researcher and Practitioner - The Neurosequential Model of Development
• Dr Dan Hughes, Author and Practitioner and developer of Dyadic Developmental Practitioner
• Dr Paul Gilbert - Author, researcher and practitioner on mindfulness and compassion
• Dr Heather Douglas and Dr Michelle Ginty - Developers of the Solihull Approach
• Dr Aaron Beck and Dr Albert Ellis - researchers and practitioners in CBT
• Dr Babette Rothschild - The Physiology of Trauma
  
• Dr Dan Hughes - Author and Practitioner Brain Based Parenting
  
• Dr. Russ Harris - Author of the Happiness Trap 
• Dr. Stephen Porges - Author and developer of the Polyvagal Theory 
• Dr. Bessel Van Derkolk  - Trauma & PTSD Expert 
• Dr. Gaber Mate - Addictions and Developmental Trauma Expert 
• Dr Jon Kabat -Zin Ph.D - Author and researcher on mindfulness
  
• Dr John Gottman - Researcher and practitioner - couple relationships
  
  

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