• Better relationships are a lasting investment. We are passionate about men and women investing in building stronger, and therefore better, relationships.

• We hold a context for relationships which is both pragmatic and visionary.

• We see ourselves as "Relationship Activists". We want to inspire people to take up the challenge that intimate relationships present.... "because you're worth it"!

• We believe that learning to relate and love is humanity's foremost task - and gift.

• Relating is always a challenge since it means shifting beyond our own individual perspective.

• We follow the dictum: "Love is not a problem to be solved, rather a mystery to be lived".

• Everyone longs for intimacy; but it is also feared. Intimacy means losing control!

• We see conflict and crisis as inevitable within committed intimate relationships; however, someone once said: "peace is not found by avoiding trouble, but by engaging it".

• We know that if we dare to really engage we have an unparalleled opportunity for growth and development.

Relationship Values

• Relationships are not consumer items: Love and sex are not commodities to be bought and sold; rather they hold the keys to personal empowerment and meaning, as well as to lasting care.

• Intimate relationships are the strongest force for personal transformation; they are evolutionary and in service of life itself.

• Indigenous wisdom teaches interconnectedness. Our development is not just personal; it is in service of coming generations.

• Lovers can become parents and are the most important teachers for children. That parents become grandparents are important for the welfare of not only individual families but also for society on the whole.

• Developing conscious relationship within a couple is 'ecological'. This means that - once you have made the effort - you can affect the whole, in a sustainable way.

• Then you are able to have benign influence on others; you become more attractive to other people; but you can no more ignore the wider problems such as global warming, which stems from lack a of relationship to the whole.