Show me Love

Innerly, almost everyone carries a strong wish to be hugged, to be loved, to matter to someone. Not only romantically, but to have relationships with people who care about our lives and are involved in them - people we can turn to and who can turn to us. Who are part of our daily life, who are just there, with us
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Although we may long for more of this love, closeness, friendship, community, it is not always clear how to move towards it.
The central proposition of this group is that love can be practiced. It is not only something that just happens to us, invoked by a special kind of people, but also a way in which we meet the world and others.
And so, we can actively direct ourselves towards love. We cannot control it, but we can create conditions and structures that support us in becoming more loving, and also more able to invite love and feel loved.
To cultivate this, we will practice things that are simple, but not always easy: tapping into a state of curiosity, having fun and playing around, listening and being listened to, figuring out what would make a situation more satisfying and fulfilling for us and communicating it, offering and receiving help, expressing appreciation, and setting boundaries tenderly. None of these things is love in itself. But by practicing them, we can become more available for love and cultivate the soil in which it can emerge.
My hope for this project is twofold. First, that what you discover here will naturally ripple into your relationships outside the group.
Second, that meaningful relationships may also emerge within the group itself. That we won't just practice being more loving and loved, but slowly also may develop care and love towards each other. That friendships, collaborations, and lasting connections of any kind might form, that after these weeks, we will start to actually matter to one another.