Personal growth and connection workshops...
Deepen connections by sharing in growth.
Explore our shared values: courage, courtesy, reciprocity, intimacy and peer-support.
Discussions, meditations, life drawing dance - see below what's been and what's coming up.
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Upcoming workshops
New workshops coming soon. Stay Tuned...
Let's Talk About Dating, Let's Talk About Sex and many others...
Past workshops
Let's Talk About Dating
Saturday 3rd August 2024
How can we make dating better?
More respectful, more fun…
Modern dating's hard right? Tiring? Painful?!
Love Guys is creating a better culture of dating, sex and relating between gay, bi and queer men.
From hook-ups, to avoidance, to apps let’s talk about how we can do it differently.
Yogic Meditation 3 Week Course
From Friday 19th July 2024
This 3 class-series shares varied meditation techniques and deep philosophy.
Emotion Focused practice, inquiry based practices, heart-centred visualisations, and mantra techniques.
Patrick is a practitioner of yoga and meditation over 20 years, and a disciple of the yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda.
Queer, Shamans and Sex Positivity
Wednesday 14th February 2024
What special contribution can queer men make to the world today?
In thousands of indigenous cultures what we now call the GBQ person held a special position within and between masculine and feminine modes.
The queer was the shaman – inhabiting different planes of reality and guiding others through transition and growth.
What can these traditions teach GBQ men today? Who do we want to be?
A discussion referencing anthropology, sociology and queer spirituality thinkers.
Authentic Dating
28th February 2024
Authentic Relating Games are playful connection tools. Explore new connections with other single GBQ men in a supportive, relaxed atmosphere, .
You’ll have several encounters throughout the night, each using a different Authentic Relating Game.
Throughout you’ll be supported and encouraged by your facilitator.
Drawing the Male
Saturday 3rd August 2022
Enjoy drawing the male form, in a semi-tutored class.
Your model has decades of experience, presenting classic and adventurous poses.
Your facilitator is an accomplished artist and a model himself.
Life drawing is a time honoured practice for sharpening your focus, exercising your brain and developing drawing skill.
Presented in partnership with Last Peek Life Drawing.
Passion Play Theatre w Ben Pfeiffer
Monday 21st March 2022
Use performance, theatre-making, storytelling and devising techniques to form authentic connections with the self and others.
Collaboration, exploration, self-insight and discovering parts of yourself that you never knew existed!
Your faciltator is a VCA trained actor, director and writer with extensive teaching and performance experience.
Enquiry and Emotion Focused Meditation
Monday 21st February 2022
By asking questions of your thoughts and feelings arrive at deeper layers of self-understanding, and the peace and expansion that are meditation’s promises!
Many people say “I can’t still the mind, so I’m no good at meditation”.
Enquiry and emotion focused meditation, drawing upon Eugene Gendlin, Paul Ekman and Byron Katie is a creative, rational method of going deeper in meditation by patient enquiry.
General Exploratory Meditation
Tuesday 23rd May 2022
Explore a variety of methods for an understanding of and confidence with meditation.
Build upon the activities introduced through the previous workshop – Enquiry and Emotion Focused Meditation – with an increased focus on sharing time in meditation and time for social connection.
Authentic Relating Games
Saturday 12th February 2022
“If you really knew me you would know…”. Fun and fascinating conversation games designed to deepen connections.
Authentic Relating Games were designed by Sara Ness of Authentic Revolution.
Authentic Relating is the practice of listening and speaking with presence, courage and curiosity. It allows us to weave richer, more honest connections.
Guys Loving Guys Dating and Connection
Monday 21st February 2022
Some guys seem to fall into relationships. Others don’t. Why is that?
From hook-up culture, to advertising, to the flood of modern communications, attachment theory, trauma – there’s a complex of answers!
Is it harder to form social and romantic connections today?
In this workshop we’ll look at what research says (or doesn’t say).
Includes the results of Love Guys’ own survey of 163 guys.
Big Talk - Online
2021
“If you were 1 of 10 survivors on a plane crash on a deserted island, what role would you play in that group?”
Fun conversation starters for deeper connection.
Workshops in planning:
- Let's Talk About Dating: this workshop - described above - will be a recurring offering.
- Let's Talk About Sex: what do we love about gay sex culture, and what do we wish was better? How can we be agents of 'sex positivity'?
- The Yang and Yin, the Masc and Femme: flowing skilfully between masculine and feminine is a valuable art, especially available to queer people. How do we consciously embrace the yang and the yin?
- Dancing from Me to Us: Jonathan Sinatra - a dancer and teacher over 25 years - invites you to listen to yourself and others as you move. Based in contact improvisation and somatic experiencing.
- The Fundamentals of Asana: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Learn the basic breath, muscular ‘locks’ and bodily alignment of Ashtanga yoga, and transform your approach to any hatha yoga class.