Lovebeing’s vision is to give you permission to explore the different aspects of your life with a view to accepting the Past, living in the Present and allowing the Future to unfold. Our team provides an environment at all our events where you can thrive without feeling judged by anyone. We are all on the same journey of life, therefore providing a place where you can look at yourself, the community and your relationships, with a view to starting again is the perfect opportunity for a new beginning.

As active members of the Lovebeing community, our events provide a foundation for the setting up of best practices in your personal lives and within your community. There are many obstacles to happiness in our relationships at school, home and work. Therefore, we aim to help you uncover those obstacles and face them with a loving heart. All our events give you the opportunity to tackle the same issues with different options, we do this using various techniques such as with role play, games, and exercises.

One of our mottos is, if we continue to tackle the same problems with the same solutions and expect different results then we will stay stuck in a neverending cycle of blaming the institutions and organisations that govern us instead of governing ourselves.

Our team is built around experts of all ages who come from the business and local communities – we know this audience well. This unique characteristic allows us to have a valuable perspective on various issues you encounter in everyday life.

What Exactly Is a Webinar?

Workshops here at lovebeing tend to be either short half a day sessions or they can span from one or two full days. They generally provide a more informal environment which is usually based on providing skills, techniques or allow participants to creatively explore new ideas which they can take home and use in their everyday lives.

Most lovebeing workshops tend to be:

• Small, usually from 6 to 15 participants, allowing everyone the opportunity to get their point or question heard
• They’re often designed for families or people from the same local community
• They’re hosted by those in the community with extensive experience dealing with the issues presented

A presentation doesn’t have to be limited to one person. Co-facilitators or co-hosts are not only common, but can greatly expand the possibilities of a given workshop, and can give some external support for those who may be finding it difficult. Each co-facilitator might be responsible for specific parts of the workshop, or all may work together right through the event, depending upon the structure and attendees needs.

• They’re often participatory, i.e. participants are active, both in that they influence the direction of the workshop and also in that they have a chance to practice the techniques, skills, etc. that are under discussion.
• They’re informal; there’s a good deal of discussion in addition to participation, rather than just a teacher presenting material to be absorbed by attentive students.
• They’re time-limited and can combine with our webinar events. Either being a single session, although some may involve multiple sessions over a period of time (using our online webinars to continue with the additional content), exercises and practice (e.g. once a week for four weeks, two full-day sessions over a weekend or a one-day workshop followed by four evenings of webinars).
• They’re self-contained. Although a workshop may end with handouts and suggestions for further reading or study for those who are interested, the presentation is generally meant to stand on its own, unlike a course, which depends on large amounts of reading and other projects (papers, presentations) in addition to classroom activities.

Lovebeing Retreats are all about Compassion

This is the greatest benefit of retreat as it gives fresh ways of seeing the same things from a different perspective; opens up new opportunities, enabling a change of circumstance to allow ‘groundhog’ day to stop repeating past mistakes. Compassion gives us the ability to see a situation with a change of heart, rising up into a bird’s eye view of a common situation, allowing us to get a bigger picture; we tend to focus on another’s shortcomings when we are ignoring our own. Retreat environments change our view from the spy hole in our front door into a view from a tower block.

This is our main aim in going on retreat – to pause, listen, reflect, connect with our inner compassion and empathy, and then finally to share with love, so that when we return back to our homes or places of work we can use compassion and our new way of life to alter our inner perceptions bringing our truth to the table. Thus, allowing us to become more transparent to our partners with a view to owning our own stuff.

So, please don’t see a retreat, as a way of running away but more of a place of returning to who you truly are, compassionate partners to the human race looking for that place of inner kindness which not only doesn’t beat oneself up but lifts ourselves and those we love up instead.