Our Story

Love-Life Workshops is the result of more than a decade of research and practice with adult men and women experiencing difficulties in their love-lives. Back in 1989, my wife Victoria, who was then a colleague, told me that she believed there was very little in the way of practical help for people who were having problems in their love-lives. As a consequence of this discussion, I began conducting what we then called ‘singles support groups’ for single, separated, divorced, and widowed men and women.

Our support groups became popular in Manhattan, with far more people showing interest than we could accommodate at the time. These singles support groups became part of our general practices, and as a consequence we developed a specialty in love-life and single living issues. Shortly after that we formed a corporation called Singles Support Services, Inc. and we advertised regularly in New York Magazine. We were amazed at the positive response we received from the singles community.

We realized throughout the subsequent ten years of providing this service, that there was a need far greater than our support groups could ever meet. People would often call us from other parts of the tri-state area inquiring into the possibility of a singles support group in their area. People who were having problems in their marriages or other committed relationships also contacted us. The absence of adequate love-life counseling services for the people of New York City and beyond remained on our minds as an unresolved problem.

The years of experience conducting these support groups taught me a lot about what people need to improve their love-lives. As a result of this on the job training, so to speak, I developed the Love-Life Review and Practices of Conscious Loving, two effective and more efficient ways providing the love-life information necessary to define problem areas and suggest the necessary love-life solutions. The Love-Life Review and Practices of Conscious Loving are the primary psycho-educational interventions offered in our Love-Life Workshops.

As a consequence of all of this, the Love-Life Workshop was born. Originally, we were preparing to launch our workshops in the private offices of a number of our psychologists throughout New York State. With this in mind, I hired workshop leaders and began to look for people to market this unusual service. This is the point at which the office workshop evolved into the online workshop and community. While interviewing people to direct our internet marketing efforts, I met Adam Glenn. Although only 8 months out of college, he is extremely creative and intuitive, and more importantly, expressed a greater vision for the Love-Life Workshops. He saw the growth of this project from a local service to an online workshop and a national community based on the internet. The more I thought about this idea and the more I listened to what Adam had to say the more I realized that going online was not only a natural evolution of this project but the right direction from the very beginning.

Our objective is to create a special website, where people have 100% anonymity, where they can learn personally or vicariously from experts and each other, and get emotional support around the clock. With that objective in mind, Adam and I partnered to create the Love-Life Workshops, a revolutionary new service and community that allows people to talk openly about their love-lives, support each other, learn together, and change all from the comfort and safety of their own homes.

Dr. Thomas Jordan
Founder, Love-Life Workshops