My childhood friend is wearing a pair of underwear on his head (we didn’t have a blindfold) and his favorite music is playing in noise-canceling headphones. He has no idea where we are or where we are going. It is his bachelor party, and we are going to Berlin.
After passing security we meet a blindfolded girl, also getting married, also going to Berlin.
Somewhere around the departure gate I start talking to a friend of the bride to be. With an underlying current of exciting nervousness we keep talking. The universe puts us next to each other and during the two hour plane ride we talk, we share and we laugh. I felt an effortless presence and later I have come to know this as a sign of me feeling attraction, love and curiosity.
Landing back home again I had an urge. I wanted to tell someone about my experience. And not just anyone, I wanted to tell my best friend. Emma. My wife.
Our conversation started on a picnic blanket and led us on a journey exploring what it would look like if we aim to live a love relationship where all of me and all of her can be shared, accepted and maybe even celebrated.
Sleepless nights holding emotions, new levels of pain, supporting and being supported. Constantly questioning our choice but also knowing deeper down that we rather have all of each other then only some chosen parts. Slowly, between the hard times, new levels of love emerged. New levels of trust, empathy, acceptance and connection. To each other, to others and to ourselves.
From this point I was bubbling to share my newfound experiences.
It lead me to facilitate a workshop on the topic during a trip to Costa Rica. More workshops, coaching and suddenly, a project was born.
Practical Love.
The project kept developing during a few years in India and we are now based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Continuously researching what tools and support we need to actually and practically live our own highest ideals of love.
Practical Love is an invitation to you. What is your highest ideal of love? What support do you need to live it? And what support can you offer to others so they can find and experience their version of love?
with love ♡
nils
Practical Love