What is The Mattering Movement?

Inspired by co-founder Jennifer Wallace’s book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic - and What We Can Do About It and want to take action? We provide powerful tools to help parents, students, and teachers untangle self-worth from achievement: it is called mattering.

Mattering is about how we treat ourselves and how we treat each other. It’s a research-backed mindset and a skill set that can be learned.

The Mattering Movement provides actionable steps to create environments that foster mattering right at home, in classrooms, and in wider communities. Research shows that at the root of the mental health struggles of our kids – the pressure, anxiety, depression, and loneliness they feel – is an unmet need to “matter” - that we are valued for who we are at our core, and that we can add meaningful value to the lives of others.

Get started today with our toolkits for students, parents and teachers.