How can we build more loving connections between us – even between strangers? What enables love to flow, including in organisational life?

How might we create an ecology of connection between us - which we'll need to help us in these fragmented and troubling times we're in?

(‘a proper grown-up exploration of love’: said a recent participant)

How do we bring more love into our work and lives ? What does mean in practice? What might be possible if more love was present between us? How might we gently create the conditions for love? And how do we start to build loving connections with people we barely know?

For many people the world of work feels loveless. But if as human beings we are hardwired for love, then it can’t be so. Perhaps it’s more that certain things get in the way of us connecting with that love while we’re at work (and elsewhere)

Some people feel that love has no place in the world of work at all. It’s for the private domain, they say. And love is often associated with romance and religion, sex and sentimentality, which doesn’t help.

But we are facing tough times and our connection – and a loving connection – to other people will be vital to us. How can we hope to turn and face what's happening in the world without a deeply human connection to each other?

Who is it for?

Anyone who's interesting in building and supporting workplace cultures that are deeply human and healthy, where there's connection and warmth between people and where the focus is on the relational side of things as well as the tasks and jobs.

So that might be leaders and managers, OD and change folks as as well as facilitators and coaches. ...

A bit more detail …

In this one-day workshop, you’ll explore and experiment with what it feels like to build a loving connection. We’ll see what happens when we intentionally try to bring love into the room. What does it mean to try and cultivate a loving connection with someone - and with people we don’t know.

We'll explore ways we can connect with the love that’s already here, building a base for more love in our organisations and wider lives. We’ll see how love is just beneath the surface and that we can access it more easily than we think.

Sometimes we’ll be playful – as with all good experiments – and other times serious. So if you’re feeling open and willing to play, I reckon you’ll leave with a greater connection to yourself and to others – and to love.

Along the way, we’ll also explore:

what we mean by love – and what forms of love are necessary for these tough times we’re in
the blocks and barriers that get in the way of connecting more deeply with each other more of the time
the conditions we can cultivate to help love flow

At the end of the session, we’ll take a look at what this means for our work in organisations, for leadership practice and for those of us involved in helping organisations adapt and change.

And having experienced them for yourselves, you’ll also leave with a series of activities and experiences that you can adopt or adapt into your own work where creating connection and greater intimacy would be helpful.

Do come along. This is the fouth time I'll have run it - it's always a wonderful group of people who come and I have no doubt it'll be the same this time :-)

About me

This workshop incorporates my award winning 2018 research into love in organisations, and the research, workshops and programmes I have developed and run since then, exploring love in organisations and beyond.

You can read my blogs, find your way to my Leading from Love podcast, and sign up to my monthly Newsletter all via my website.

It also draws on many years of deep experiential work, including shadow work and systemic constellations , as well as over 25 years working in leadership and organisational development, and as a coach and facilitator.

(image: Michelle Mischkulnig)

The Love Lab 2024