Welcome to the Dove Self-Esteem Project
At Dove, we believe no young person should be held back from reaching their full potential. However, low body confidence and anxieties over appearance stop young people being their best selves, affecting their health, friendships and even performance at school.
For more than 10 years, we’ve been helping parents, mentors, teachers and youth leaders deliver self-esteem education that's reached more than 20 million young people so far. Join us to help reach even more.
Our topics
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Our mission
We’re helping young people all around the world build positive body confidence and self-esteem. -
Parent & mentor resources
Use our resources to help you to talk about body confidence with a special young person in your life and support them to become a self-assured individual. -
Teacher resources
Our free, evidence-based resources for teachers have everything schools need to run successful curriculum-aligned body confidence workshops. -
Youth leader resources
A body-confident young person is ready to go after their goals. Use our evidence-based activities and discussion topics to help get your group to talk about body image.
Our Dove Self-Esteem Project articles
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Worried that all your daughter ever sees in magazines and on screen are unrealistic images of ‘perfect’ women? Our fun activity plan will let you both give the stereotypes a makeover.
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As a parent, it’s natural to want the best for your child – for them to be happy, healthy and confident individuals.
But that’s sometimes easier said than done, especially during the teen and pre-teen years when their bodies are changing, their self-confidence is fragile and they are trying to make that tricky transition out of childhood.
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It's a shocking fact that eight out of 10 girls are so concerned about body image that they opt out of important life activities.
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Arguably the biggest difference between our own teenage years and those of our children, social media is here to stay. So how do we help our young people use it in a positive way?
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The ups and downs of growing up can leave parents confused, and their daughters bewildered. Every girl’s experience of puberty is different, but this tumultuous time can be easier if you understand what's going on beneath the surface.
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Click here to watch our range of Confident Me training videos – all designed to help you deliver self-esteem workshops successfully.
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Teacher resources for our single session Dove Confident Me programme – all you need to run a one-off body-confidence workshop.
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Our Confident Me body-confidence teaching materials explore influences on young people's body image and self-esteem.
