Some guiding principles drive Matroyshka Haus:

• An open approach to new ideas and initiatives
• Community awareness and transformation
• Sustainable development
• The encouragement of innovative, forward-thinking and creative endeavour
• Transformation of ideas into action
• Proliferation, that is, ensuring projects have scope to multiply

Matroyshka Haus aims to embody and communicate a new way of doing business based on the principles of multiple types of capital, social justice and human rights, and to inspire new leaders, ventures and projects that have the potential to realize personal and community transformation. In turn, we hope that the projects and ventures we support will embody these principles.

Matroyshka Haus is also an integral part of Tessera, a global training initiative to raise up a new breed of leaders to live out a mission spirituality. Tessera provides people with reflective learning experiences and helps them consider what it would look like for them to live missionally and help others to do the same.

Matroyshka Haus is part mission incubator, part think tank, part social enterprise and part creative company.