Welcome to the Mattering Movement

We create communities where people know they matter.

Bring Mattering to Your School Today

"I have learned a lot through these lessons, and learning about mattering has changed my outlook on life." - student

“Having the shared understandings, frameworks, and language make growing our and our students' senses of mattering feel more possible” - teacher

"It has positively impacted my mental health because it made me feel like I matter." - student

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Our curriculum - designed for advising programs, homeroom, wellnesss initiatives, or easily incorporated across academic disciplines - has been piloted by a diverse group of schools across the United States and abroad, reaching approximately 1100 students and 200 teachers.

Our Mattering Curriculum

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.

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44%

American high school students feel persistently sad or hopeless right now, according to the U.S. Surgeon General. Curious about Mattering in your own life? Take our 4-minute Mattering Metric.

Find Your Mattering Metric

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Who is the Mattering Movement?

We are a community of parents, students, educators, and experts committed to addressing the universal need we all share to feel understood and cared for by those around us.

Bringing together their deep expertise, founders Jennie B. Wallace, Dr. Sarah Bennison, Kimberly Kravis and Kim Towner, along with a team of top academic advisors and advisory council members, are committed to providing adults and youth with the tools and skills they need to build meaningful community, to buffer against stress and anxiety, and to make a positive impact on the world.

Meet Our Team