About us
At Kokoro, we mobilise action and capital to create a mentally healthy world.
By 2035, we want to see global momentum behind a shared understanding of what a mentally healthy world looks like. Leaders will have the evidence for how positive mental health contributes to our individual, collective and planetary health, and will be taking action against agreed targets and milestones.
Global Momentum + Shared Vision = Radical Action in service of a Mentally Healthy World
We are a not-for-profit and we work in radical collaboration with a global network of allies, partners and funders, using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as our framework. We believe that through the combined oomf of working with our partners on three strands of work (‘Connecting’, ‘Scaling’ and ‘Championing’), we can collectively help drive the systemic change that is needed to tackle this global crisis.
Read more about our Theory of Change here. (We are grateful to Andy Martin and the team at Firetail for their exceptional clarity of thought and strategic guidance in helping us to develop this theory, as well as to our Advisors and the many kind people who have helped us to iterate this theory over time 🙏.)
See how we are tracking our impact through our annual reports here.
Our Team
Natasha Müller, Founder
Jules Chappell, CEO
Gaia Brignone, Head of Community & Communications
Our Advisory Board
Alex Holmes
Dr. Valentina Iemmi
Joanne Maislin
Dr. Benjamin Miller, PsyD
Sebastian Robertson
Celina de Sola
Our values
Compassionate
We aim to combine empathy and lived experience. We always try to bring our real selves to the table.
Positive
The challenges facing global mental health are serious and often difficult. We feel it is really important to remain positive, focusing on action and hope.
Imaginative
We want to inspire and to be inspired about what is possible when we have good mental health.
Our name
Kokoro is a Japanese concept that unites heart, spirit and mind - a single word that makes those three concepts indivisible and sits at the very core of who we are. We love the word ‘kokoro’ because it sums up how we approach mental health. Mental health is health - indivisible from physical health. And because our whole health affects who we are and what we do each day, we need to nourish it and cherish it as the basis for everything else we do and become.