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 from being their best selves, affecting their health, friendships, and even performance at school. Join Dove in helping build self-esteem through our self-esteem project.

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.

Dove and Cartoon Network are helping girls build self-esteem
Building self-esteem in young people through cartoons, for the first time

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Dove on Roblox: Super U Story
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind gaming experience to help make gaming a positive space for girls.

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Our Topics

Our mission
We’re helping young people all around the world build positive body confidence and self-esteem.

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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.

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Teacher Resources
Our free, evidence-based resources for teachers have everything schools need to run successful curriculum-aligned body confidence workshops.

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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.

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A secret code for your mother daughter relationship

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What is active listening, and how can it help you communicate with your child?

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What is active listening, and how can it help you communicate with your child? read more
Words of encouragement: how you can support your child

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Words of encouragement: how you can support your child read more

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#SelfEsteemAtHome: Body confidence classes for kids
The Dove Self-Esteem Project has teamed up with body positive activist Megan Crabbe @bodyposipanda to provide positivity for young people through classes while they’re staying safe at home.

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The Dove Self-Esteem Project has teamed up with body positive activist Megan Crabbe @bodyposipanda to provide positivity for young people through classes while they’re staying safe at home.

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A secret code for your mother daughter relationship
How a codeword can improve communication with your teen daughter, helping you offer relationship advice & strengthening your mother daughter relationship.

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It can be hard for a teenage girl to chat to her mum – or anyone – about a sensitive issue. A mother daughter private code may help her talk when she’s feeling awkward or unhappy.

read more A secret code for your mother daughter relationship
Be Real: the campaign for body confidence
The Dove Self-Esteem Project & Be Real Campaign support parents & teachers to increase self worth in teens & young women, helping them feel more body confident

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At Dove, we're committed to making beauty a source of confidence, not anxiety. That’s why we're a founding partner of the Be Real Campaign – a national movement formed in response to the Reflections on Body Image report from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Body Image. Together, we are campaigning to change attitudes to body image, put health above appearance, and help all of us be confident in our bodies.

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Celebrity culture: sorting reality from hyper-reality
Is your child obsessed with celebrities or reality shows? Use our action checklist to counter celebrity influence and help them develop a healthy self-image.

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Young people today are surrounded by a celebrity culture that's hard to compete with and could have a negative impact on their self-image. Celebrity influence is everywhere, from style magazines to Twitter, Snapchat, the world of 'reality' TV and airbrushed images. How is your child coping?

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Chantelle Brown-Young and positive self image: teaching girls about individual beauty
Frustrated by the portrayal of women in the media? Find new role models for teens, and help your daughter celebrate diversity and recognise her inner beauty.

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By speaking up about vitiligo, a condition that affects the pigment of the skin, ex-America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) contestant Chantelle Brown-Young is confidently expressing her individuality. Use her experience to start talking to your child about celebrating different types of beauty and developing their own positive body image.

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Confidence Kit: A tool to help build positive body confidence in your child
As a parent, it’s natural to want the best for your child – for them to be happy, healthy and confident individuals.

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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.

read more Confidence Kit: A tool to help build positive body confidence in your child

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