Global Dialogue
Help bring the concept into wider public awareness—across diverse contexts and different countries. Below are examples of how this work has traveled across the world.
Interested in featuring or discussing matrescence together using your area of expertise in your particular community? Join the growing global conversation.
GREECE
Sarita Chaim
The Matrescence Greece Project was created to bring the concept of matrescence into public awareness in Greece through science, storytelling, education, and cultural dialogue.
By introducing the language and framework of matrescence to Greek audiences, the project seeks to normalize these transformations as a natural and meaningful developmental transition rather than a personal failing or pathology. Giving name and visibility to this experience helps women better understand themselves, fosters compassion and social recognition, and opens new conversations about motherhood, mental health, identity, family life, and care within contemporary Greek society.
DENMARK
Céline E J L Brassart Olsen
An idea for policy change sparked through international dialogue on matrescence and maternal wellbeing recently expanded into a funded research initiative in Denmark. At Roskilde University, a researcher received support to investigate mothers’ rights and the social conditions shaping contemporary motherhood, reflecting the growing global recognition that maternal experiences deserve deeper psychological, cultural, and institutional attention.
Projects like these demonstrate how the framework of matrescence is helping catalyze new research agendas and policy reform.
Australia
Amy Taylor-Kabbaz
Amy Taylor-Kabbaz was originally trained as a journalist with Australia’s ABC before the experience of motherhood shifted her work toward maternal identity, support, and cultural change. Beginning with local community-building and later expanding internationally, her work has helped connect mothers seeking language and recognition for the transition into motherhood. Her efforts now extend into documentary storytelling and outreach initiatives supporting underserved areas through pro bono mentorship, scholarships, and even salaries to train women to support mothers in their communities.
Ireland
Ciara Ni Bhroin
Dialogues like these with clear facilitation and questions helps mothers in your region who have never heard of the term learn about it for the first time! Ciara Ni Bhroin brought her journalism experience to asking about the fundamentals so others could understand the term and its value via her podcast programming.