Relationships are at the heart of everything – our health, our happiness, and our children’s lives
OnePlusOne helps people build the skills and confidence to get on better, before conflict causes lasting harm.
Having good quality relationships improves your mental resilience, physical health, and life expectancy. These benefits radiate into the lives of those around you.
When relationships drift into tension and conflict, it affects everyone. Conflict in the home can damage children’s emotional development, stress levels, education, and future relationships.
For many people, counselling comes too late. At OnePlusOne, we want everybody to be able to build the relational skills that make the biggest difference, before things reach crisis point.
Delivering evidence-based programmes across England and Wales.
What we do
“[Separating better] helped me feel like I'm not alone in this… like, I've got it. It's there to help me sort things.”
Our support and resources are designed to help people get on better:
Techniques that are proven to work, with evidence to back them up.
Co-creation involving people with lived experience ensures our content resonates with the target audience.
Our applied research approach helps people learn relational skills and have the confidence to use them to make positive changes in their lives.
We continually evaluate our resources to ensure they are always as effective as they can be.
“We are communicating more calmly and focusing on listening to each other's needs.”
Create strong early connections so that you're ready to support each other through difficult times like the transition to parenthood.
"Sometimes we bicker as all relationships do but realised small bickers can cause stress … We both found this very useful❤️"— A parent using Me, You and Baby Too
Develop the confidence to navigate parental separation in a way that benefits the whole family, through an app that brings all aspects of separation into one space.
"It showed us that we were on the right path. We were in the right direction … We both saw exactly what we wanted to do and were looking at in similar ways."— A parent using the Separating Better app
Learn skills like self-regulation, active listening, seeing things differently, and negotiation to work things out.
"[The course] showed me that effective arguing is about understanding different perspectives and finding solutions, not just trying to win the argument."— A parent using How to Argue Better
Tackle difficult topics like sex, money, childcare, and key values in a nonconfrontational way. Resolve disagreements respectfully, even with an ex.
"Staying calm is where it all begins. It allows you to focus on your kids' wellbeing, opens doors for negotiations, and eliminates fighting in front of the kids."— A parent using Getting it Right for Children
Understand how stress affects relationships and learn how to share the burden together.
"Parenthood brings a 'rollercoaster of change,' but by managing stress together and using better communication styles, we can create a calm and supportive environment for our baby."— A parent using Me, You and Baby Too
“I am more considerate of my children… arguing in front of them was not helping at all.”
Having a baby is one of the biggest changes a couple will gothrough. Me, You and Baby Too helps new parents prepare for thistransition and navigate the journey together.
In How to Argue Better, we help parents recognise the impact of stress and conflict on their children, giving them techniques to cope together and improve communication.
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When parents separate, it’s hard for everyone. Our evidence-based Separating better app helps co-parents learn to communicate with each other and cooperate in a way that supports children through the change.
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We work directly with the people who support families every day. Our Getting on Better and Relational Capability training programmes equip professionals with relational skills that support the families they work with.
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Through our training course in the virtual campus, prisoners from 47 institutions learned positive communication skills and felt more confident talking to their partners aboutparenting and family matters.
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Depression and low mood: A guide for partners, produced in collaboration with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, was highly commended at the British Medical Journal Awards.
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We have developed anddelivered programmes and resources to support couples dealing with complexissues such as debt, kinship care, substance misuse, addiction, brain tumours,and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
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“I don’t know where I would be now if I hadn’t found the videos and the programmes […]it’s really helpful.”
When people have the skills, confidence, and opportunity to get on better, it has a positive impact on every area of their lives. Couples are happier, families are stronger, and children do better in life.
