From a TED Talk to UK Movement: How Our Voice Our Journey and She Is Not Your Rehab are creating a generation of cycle breakers
In 2023, whilst searching for inspiration of how to engage boys and men in preventing violence against women and girls our founder watched a TED Talk that changed everything. In the TedTalk The barbershop where men go to heal | Matt Brown | TEDxChristchurch Matt Brown co-founder of She Is Not Your Rehab speaks with courage about masculinity, accountability and violence prevention, encouraging men to take accountability without provoking shame or blame. We reached out, never expecting a reply. What followed was the beginning of a powerful, ongoing partnership.
Since then, She Is Not Your Rehab has visited the UK three times each time growing the movement, together, we’ve reached over 3,500 young people and 1,000 professionals through speaker sessions, training and events. From schools to prisons, youth centres to multi-agency teams, the message is clear ‘lets dismantle the very foundations of family violence, through pioneering approaches and groundbreaking solutions, lets cure the epidemic at its root’.
This is more than a collaboration. It’s a shared mission to disrupt cycles of harm and build a culture of care, accountability and healing. Our partnership has grown so strong that we are now exploring ways in which we can develop this partnership throughout the UK, deepen the work, grow the movement and co-create a new generation of cycle breakers.
We are driven by the hope of creating safer, violence-free communities and are deeply grateful to the men who trust us on their journey and to the supporters who make this possible’ Matt & Sarah Brown co-founders of She Is Not Your Rehab.
