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If someone asked “what would love do?” in a given situation, many of us have a sense of what that would be. Without getting too deep into definitions of love, for many of us, living love would be something close to fully accepting others but also at the same time loving ourselves and practicing healthy boundaries. Even if the situation challenges us at that moment.Imagine that you are in the kitchen and your partner starts arguing about something you did… you don't see your partner's reaction matching what happened but you know he/she/they had a long day and is probably hungry.
❤️ What would love do?
Perhaps love is to reach deep down, stay present, and be able to take a pause. A reaction pause. Not following the instinct of defensively arguing the point but gently trying to hear your partner beyond words. Often we know “what love would do”, but it can be hard, frustrating and/or scary to follow. We need practice. Practice Group is the place where we get together as a community and practice.
You are invited to Practice Group if you have attended any other Practical Love workshop before. This means you and everyone else in the room already are at least familiar with the Practical Love framework. In practice group we explore our own lives and experiences and practice the Tools and Pillars of Practical Love for equal purposes of healing and learning. Playing with feelings and needs cards, taking full responsibility for our communication and needs. Practicing new levels of sharing and listening, and much more.
Practice Group - Presence, Practice, and Community:
🙏🏽 Presence - The moment
It is a space with priority on what is live in the group and room at the moment. Any previous plan is prepared to be left behind, by what the moment asks of us. Supporting each other through emotions arising at the moment offers us the opportunity to practice skills we need to love.
🤸🏽♂️ Practice - Learning while healing and healing while learning
Living love is usually easy when we are calm and present - the challenge is when we are emotional, in our pains and traumas and/or when it really means something to us. We, therefore, believe that learning without an anchor to our own lives and our emotions is less fruitful than it could be. Applying what we learn while visiting our celebrations, longings, happy-, proud-, painful-, sad-, and shameful- moments is essential.
🌍 Community - Support and being supported (and for playfulness)
This workshop is above everything else a safe space to share and explore together with like-minded people where we can support each other as a community. Having people around us who both remind us of our longing to live love but also support us in moving towards it might be the most valuable thing of it all.
Basic setup for Practice Group:
✨ Check-in (How do I feel now? Do I have any challenges/longings live in my life at the moment? Do I have any wishes for what to work with?)
✨ Short introduction of today’s tool (can be pre-decided or adapted to what suits the group today)
✨ We practice - Individually, in small groups, or in full group
✨ Rounding off (Do I have takeaways or something else to share with the group?)
✨ Check-out (How do I feel now? Any wishes for the future?)
Who is it for?
💜 Anyone who has attended an introduction to Practical Love workshop and wants to continue to practice and explore tools supporting to live love authentically in your own way.
💜 Young and old, singles and couples, other constellations, and everything in between. Together with your partner(s) or alone.
🦒 The space: We will be a small group of 3-11 people with the focus above anything else to create a safe space to share and explore.
🇬🇧 Language: English
Even if the practice group is in English you are always welcome to ask questions or do exercises in Swedish.
📌 Where: Stigbergstorget, Göteborg. A more exact location will be included in the confirmation email.
📅 When:
Thursday 24 October 18.00 - 21.00
- Not yet open for registration
Practice group is usually different every time and you are welcome as many times as you like. If you wish to get notified when we set new dates, click on the link: https://www.practical-love.org/reminder/
💎 Practice Group fee: 150 SEK, you will get payment details through the registration link below.
📌 Book your spot: https://www.practical-love.org/registration-practice-group/
Hope to see you!
With love
Practical Love team & community
☘️ Who are we:
Practical Love is a community and an organization in the early stages of researching what tools and support we humans need to live love more authentically and fully. With the starting point of accepting (some of us even celebrating) that attraction to others is normal, we've started to develop a practical framework. The Pillars of Practical Love and Practical Love Tools support singles, couples, and other constellations to cultivate the skills needed to feel free and safe - at the same time - in their relationships. Aiming to live beyond fear and conditioning in what we call 1 + 1 = 3 relationships. Where the sum truly is greater than the parts.
🌱 Where did we grow from:
- Communication-based practices such as Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Circling, and Restorative Circles
- Somatic practices including Awareness Through the Body (ATB)
- Consciousness awareness philosophies such as Integral Yoga.
- Evidence-based therapeutic models for trauma and healing including Internal Family Systems (IFS) and theories such as Attachment Theory
- Community practices from the communities Tamera in Portugal and Auroville in India.
Curious about the facilitators?
🥥 Main facilitator: Nils
In 2018 Nils initiated what today is Practical Love. He saw how his mixed experience of date-coaching, open relationships, lecturing about fear, living in community and Nonviolent Communication gave him a perspective of love that was valuable to others on their journey and in their struggles. Ever since he has been developing and teaching tools that support love to emerge, in coaching and workshops.
🌸 Supporting facilitator in training: Cecilia
Cecilia’s big passion for communication and growth guided her to studies in psychology, then her own learnings from moving through struggles in relationships led her to Practical Love. She’s here to share tools, hold space for others, and continue to grow.
🙌🏽 What others are saying about Nils, Cecilia and Practical Love:
”Nils Johansson är en av dom mest skinande i den nya generationens inspiratörer. Hans tilltal är varmt, innerligt och väldigt underhållande. Han talar om allmänmänskliga rädslor på ett sätt som ingjuter mod i oss. Och bäst av allt, han talar helt från egen erfarenhet, och sin oförvägna resa genom sina egna rädslor."
- Björn Nattiko Lindeblad
"Cecilia is one of those very special people who hold the ability to create a space that is completely free from demands and pressure. Instead, Cecilia fills the room with a presence that inspires. With her guidance and the tools that Practical Love offers, I felt truly inspired and curious to explore; to find the path to understanding why I feel, act or think as I do/did in certain situations. I felt guided to find the words to express these feelings with honesty and thus come to accept and value them in a whole different light. Within the atmosphere that Cecilia creates I felt welcomed, guided and free."
- Julia Nordenson
"With his presence and openness, Nils makes me feel calm, safe, and at home. The tools of Practical Love slowly open space for new perspectives and offer an invitation to trust one’s own and others' abilities in relationships. Nils has supported me to be courageous enough to feel and reflect upon feelings that before were unexplored but waiting under the surface. With his help to self-help I have for the first time dared to get to know myself more deeply."
- Lana Lawa
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Stigbergstorget, Gothenburg, Sweden
