Love + Connection in a Brave New World
Live Course · Application Required · No RecordingsA 12-week live conversation salon for adults who want to understand love in the second half — with research, honest conversation, weekly audio deep dives, and practice language for real life.
Tuesdays, 7–9 PM ET · June 9–August 25, 2026 · Google Meet · Maximum 20 participants
What This Is
There is a moment a lot of adults hit somewhere in their 40s or 50s where they look at their love life — or their long-term relationship, or their quiet Friday night, or their dating app profile — and think: I have no idea what I'm doing anymore.
I'm one of them.
We aren't naive. We've been trying. But the world has changed, and real relationships are a strange frontier.
Rules have shifted. Economics shifted. What women want has changed in some ways, and stays the same in others. What men want seems to have gone MIA — and many of them feel guilty for still wanting it. The confusion has created tension and resentment. We're not sure if this frontier can be tamed, or if we're doomed to wander in a vain search for deep connection and secure love.
Circle the wagons. We're doing this.
This is a 12-week live conversation salon for men and women who want to understand love, dating, sex, partnership, equity, friendship, attachment, and connection in the second half of life. Each week includes a downloadable audio deep dive, a short session sheet, and a live Tuesday gathering on Google Meet. The audio gives you the research and context. The session sheet gives you the questions. Our time together gives us a chance to unpack and sort.
Twelve weeks gives these conversations room — for depth, discovery, and practice.
This is for people who are single, dating, divorced, widowed, partnered, married, curious, cautious, starting over, staying together, or rethinking what connection is allowed to mean now.
- ·Why love, dating, sex, and partnership feel different now — and why the confusion is cultural, not personal
- ·The invisible histories men and women bring into relationships — labor, loneliness, bodies, economic reality, old relational conditioning
- ·Why men and women misread each other even when both are trying
- ·How the nervous system shapes who we choose, how we attach, and what floods us in conflict
- ·The child still alive inside the adult body — and how that part runs love lives
- ·What friendship, solitude, non-monogamy, and decentering romance mean in practice
- ·How to have honest conversations about money, care, sex, autonomy, labor, and commitment
Couples are welcome. Friends are welcome. Individuals are welcome. Each perspective brings a valuable lens — long-term partners, singles who move between satisfaction and isolation, divorcees surveying the dating scene with trepidation. Whoever you are: if you want clarity, honesty, and practical conversation, this is it.
What You Get
When you are accepted and registered, you receive:
- 12 live Tuesday conversations, 2 hours each
- Weekly downloadable audio deep dive — yours to keep permanently
- Weekly session sheets with key ideas, research, and conversation previews
- Weekly reflection prompts — optional, for people who process by writing
- A session synthesis document after each gathering — what points were made, what friction untangled, what conclusions drawn or abandoned. A record of what happened that keeps personal quotes and details private, the substance intact.
- A personal reflection inventory — 12 to 15 questions covering the core territory of the series, answered privately before Week 1 and again before Week 12. A private before-and-after to measure what shifts.
- A private WhatsApp group for between-session connection
- A private $200-off invitation for one additional attendee after your acceptance
No sessions are recorded.
What This Helps You Do
This is designed to help you:
- ·Understand why love, dating, sex, and partnership feel different now — for everyone
- ·Recognize the conditioning you inherited around gender, marriage, money, bodies, and care — and see where it still operates underneath your modern language
- ·Speak more clearly about safety, desire, labor, autonomy, commitment, and repair
- ·Understand how your nervous system shapes who you choose and how you love — as a history you can work with, not a diagnosis
- ·Recognize the child parts of yourself still making decisions in adult relationships
- ·Practice honest conversations before they become a charged moment
- ·Hear perspectives from people whose lives look nothing like yours
- ·Bring better language into dating, long-term partnership, friendship, and your own self-understanding
Return to the audio and session sheets whenever a conversation with a partner, date, friend, or former version of yourself brings up something you want to revisit.
You'll Know This Is For You If…
- You can feel that the old ideas around love, marriage, dating, and gender no longer fit — and you don't want to live with bitterness or retreat.
- You want to talk about sex, money, desire, bodies, care, and loneliness like an adult, without coyness or performance.
- You are single and content in many ways, yet still curious about what kind of connection might actually add to your life.
- You are partnered or married and want new language for conversations that have become too familiar, too loaded, or too easy to avoid.
- You are a man who wants connection but sometimes feels confused, displaced, or unsure what women actually want now.
- You are a woman who has carried too much invisible labor and wants love that feels mutual — a partnership, not another job.
- You are in a long-term relationship that works, but something has gone flat. You want language for that.
- You want a thoughtful mixed-gender conversation that has room for research, laughter, tenderness, hard truth, and practical language.
This is a good fit if you can listen with curiosity, speak honestly when you choose to speak, and let other people have a different story without turning the conversation into a debate.
How It Works
Apply and choose your payment option.
Complete the application and pay in full or choose the two-payment option. Your payment holds your spot while I review your application.
Preview conversation.
I'll review your application and reach out before confirming your spot. The conversation is brief and the point is simple: everyone arriving with the same expectations — honesty, curiosity, and a tolerance for perspectives and topics that don't usually get an honest airing. If that's not the right fit, your payment is returned.
Each week, you receive material to prepare, process, and integrate.
Before the session: an audio deep dive — the week's research, context, and implications, about 20 to 30 minutes, downloadable. And a session preview sheet with the core ideas and conversation prompts. After the session: a synthesis document and reflection prompts.
We meet live on Tuesday evenings.
We gather on Google Meet from 7–9 PM ET. Each gathering includes an opening talk, Q&A, open discussion, and time to practice using new insights in real time.
Keep going between sessions.
A private WhatsApp group keeps the discussion going when Tuesday runs out.
You keep everything.
The live gatherings are not recorded. The audio, session sheets, synthesis documents, and reflection inventory are your permanent reference.
The Arc
The Twelve Weeks
The twelve weeks move in four arcs: first, we look at what changed culturally; then we examine what we still carry; then we practice what we want going forward; and finally, we clarify how we want to build from here.
Weeks 1–4: What Changed · Weeks 5–8: What We Still Carry · Weeks 9–11: What We Want · Week 12: How We Build
Investment
Second Attendee
$200 off
Coupon sent after your acceptance
Love + Connection in a Brave New World is a 12-week live series with 24 hours of live conversation, weekly audio deep dives, weekly session preview sheets, recap summaries, reflection questions, a personal before-and-after reflection inventory, and a private WhatsApp group.
The price reflects the full three-month arc: preparation before each Tuesday, live conversation, thoughtful synthesis afterward, and a private place for the conversation to continue between sessions.
How to Start
Click Apply to Join — $697.
Complete the application and choose your payment option.
I'll review your application and reach out before enrollment is confirmed.
If accepted, you'll receive confirmation, the Google Meet link, your personal reflection inventory, and the first audio deep dive before Week 1.
If it is not the right fit, your payment is returned.
Apply to Join
The questions below have no right or wrong answer. They exist to give you a taste of the conversation and help me understand whether this gathering is the right fit for you.
You don't need to be single. You don't need to be partnered. You don't need to have your love life sorted out. You only need enough curiosity and honesty to enter a conversation with other adults who may have lived very differently than you.
- What's your relationship status — single, dating, partnered, married, divorced, widowed, complicated, or something else?
- What made this conversation feel timely for you right now?
- What is one question about love, sex, dating, partnership, or connection that you want a good answer to?
- What relationship patterns are you tired of?
- What makes a relationship a dream come true?
- What relationship conversations make you feel defensive?
- Are you applying as an individual, or do you hope to attend with a partner or friend?
- Is there anything about your history or current situation that would be helpful to know upfront?
This series is not therapy, couples counseling, or crisis support. It is a live teaching and conversation salon. If you are in an active relationship crisis, acute grief, an unsafe partnership, or a situation that needs private professional care, this series may still be useful to you later — but it may not be the right support right now.
Love in the second half needs better conversation.
Twelve Tuesdays. Weekly audio deep dives. Honest questions and language you can use in real life.
Join the Conversation — $697