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OUR CURRENT PROJECTS

Based in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Engaging locally to deliver nationally.

All projects are piloting locally, building regionally and designed for scalability.

Art by Jo Davidson

Your World Your Way
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People living with disability, particularly accessing the NDIS across the Northern Rivers and nationally, often receive funded support without a consistent, shared way to turn everyday support into effective capacity building. Your World Your Way will be developed as an online Assistive Technology, capacity building, toolkit and will be designed to address that gap and more. The toolkit will provide a streamlined, non-clinical digital platform that supports people living with disability and their existing support workers to build capacity across daily living and social community participation, helping participants work toward their individual goals. Activities and flow are designed to be used alongside existing supports and are informed by collaboration with occupational therapists, psychologists, and other allied health professionals. The activities will be engaging, fun, and creative, encouraging participation in ways that feel meaningful rather than clinical. Rather than pushing progress, the approach meets participants where they are and supports movement toward goals in creative, engaging, and meaningful ways, even when capacity fluctuates. The vision is to have integrated intake, flexible design, and built-in assistive technology and AI components, adapts to different levels of need, disability, communication style, and day-to-day capacity. Support workers provide the same relational guidance they would in any support setting, with the toolkit offering structured activities that support insight, reflection, and growth without becoming clinical. With participant consent, selected insights can be shared across a participant’s wider support network, including support workers, allied health professionals, support coordinators, plan managers, and families. This supports continuity, shared understanding, reporting, and contribution toward NDIS plan reviews, while maintaining participant choice and control and responding to individual and variable needs. The toolkit is being developed in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Your World, Your Way is being shaped through lived experience, research, and consultation with people living with disability, support workers, and allied health professionals. While grounded in local community needs, the toolkit has been designed for broader application across the disability sector, supporting everyday participation to translate into visible progress. Designed to be intuitive, creative, and human rather than clinical, the toolkit will be in alignment with recognised accessibility and quality standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA, and the principles of the NDIS Act, NDIS Practice Standards, and the Australian Disability Strategy. The toolkit is being developed in the Northern Rivers of NSW by Bodhi Heart Pty Ltd and will be delivered by Being Matters Incorporated for charitable purposes. It is currently in early stages of design and development, with funding now being sought to complete further testing and create an MVP. Further detail is available in the accompanying brochure.

Art by Jo Davidson

Project Elkie 

Project Elkie addresses a critical gap in how non-physical domestic and relational abuse is understood, recognised, and responded to. It is being developed for women experiencing coercive control, emotional and psychological abuse, narcissistic abuse, trauma bonding, and related forms of harm that often occur without visible violence and are widely misunderstood by families, communities, and systems. Project Elkie is working toward becoming an integrated online platform that brings together clear information, education, resources, support, and community in one accessible place. It responds to the current reality that women are forced to search across scattered websites, social media accounts, and individual voices to understand what is happening to them, while loved ones and communities often lack the language or understanding to recognise or respond to these forms of abuse. By creating a single, trusted space, Project Elkie aims to demystify non-physical abuse, highlight the patterns that underpin coercive control and psychological harm, and support earlier understanding before damage escalates. It is designed for women experiencing abuse, women in recovery, and for families, friends, and community members seeking to learn how to recognise, respond, and support without minimising harm or unintentionally reinforcing it. Project Elkie will support women locally in the Northern Rivers and extend access to people experiencing disadvantage across regional, rural, and urban communities throughout Australia. The online format allows private access, community connection, and up-to-date information without requiring immediate disclosure or crisis engagement. Project Elkie is being developed in the Northern Rivers of NSW by Lynda Keane, Founder of Being Matters Incorporated. Lynda is also the founder and administrator of the online Facebook community Women of the Northern Rivers, a group of over 2,000 women originally created to support connection and community. Over time, the group became a catalyst for women to reach out anonymously after hearing Lynda’s story, revealing the widespread need for safe spaces where women can seek understanding, support, and connection without judgement. Project Elkie has been designed by Bodhi Heart Pty Ltd and is intended to be delivered by Being Matters Incorporated for charitable purposes. Funding is now being sought to move the platform from concept to implementation and begin creating meaningful community understanding and real change.

Art by Jo Davidson

Future Projects

Being Matters also has several projects currently in incubation that align with our vision and mission. Please reach out to find out more.

What We Do Matters

Being Matters is not-for-profit organisation working to promote wellbeing, education, and equity in every community. 

Based in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Engaging locally local to deliver nationally.

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