About Us
Empathy, emotional intelligence & confidence.
We teach you the life skills school didn’t.
Why are we leaving school feeling unprepared for actual, adult life?
We're providing people with the tools and knowledge to navigate life, especially the tough, defining moments like losing a parent or building up confidence at work. That's what Matriarch exists to do.
What we're really good at is teaching people in a non-mandatory, robotic way. All our sessions are built on lived experience and allow people to talk and build skills as humans.
(And we proudly have nothing to do with AI, something we need more of in this era!)
The Matriarch Method.
The philosophy that underpins everything we do at Matriarch.
How we work as people doesn’t need to rely on dominance, hierarchy, or burnout.
Our method draws from the principles of matriarchy not as a gendered idea, but as a human philosophy.
We’ve taught over +2000 participants and worked with some of the worlds biggest brands - these 4 values underpin every workshop and interaction we’ve had.
Who we are
‘Be who you needed when you were younger.’
At the age of 7, our Founder, Ria, dealt with a racist teacher.
But the experiences of discrimination didn’t end there. It was a thread throughout and beyond school. She was completely unprepared to manage it.
At 19, her Dad died out of the blue. And her life changed overnight. She and her friends were completely unprepared to manage it.
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Before Ria was 20, she’d faced some of life’s toughest moments with no preparation. So she set out to change that and teach people what they weren’t teaching at school.
In 2019, Ria Kalsi founded Matriarch after finishing her first year of studying English at Exeter University.
We began initially as a blog created by before quickly flourishing into an Instagram platform, which created content on topics ranging from body image to self-love. Ria continued to create educational content for the platform, utilising her degree, knowledge, and lived experience to produce content around race, colonialism, and other societal concepts. The rest is history...
