About us
What happens when we give connection a little more time, attention and curiosity?
Meaningful Connections London is a community for people who want to explore more intentional, genuine and human ways of meeting — ourselves and each other.
In a city full of people, it can sometimes feel surprisingly difficult to really connect. We talk, work, date, socialise and move through busy lives, but how often do we get the opportunity to slow down and notice what actually happens when we meet another person?
Our gatherings create space to do exactly that.
Through Authentic Relating, meaningful conversations, embodied practices, playful exercises and shared experiences, we explore things like:
• How do I show up around other people?• What helps me feel connected — and what gets in the way?• How do I communicate what I want or need?• What happens when I feel awkward, unseen, attracted, uncertain or vulnerable?• Can I stay connected while having boundaries or differences?• What changes when I become more curious and make fewer assumptions?
Some gatherings are light and playful. Others may invite deeper reflection. Sometimes we'll talk. Sometimes we'll move. Sometimes we'll experiment with silence, listening, boundaries, curiosity or simply noticing what is happening between us.
You don't need to be confident, outgoing or experienced in this kind of work.
Come alone or with someone. All genders, backgrounds and relationship statuses are welcome.
This isn't therapy, networking or a space where you need to perform vulnerability. You choose how you participate, what you share and where your boundaries are.
Our events include Authentic Relating Experiences, Relating Rooms, conscious relationship explorations and other gatherings centred around awareness, relating and embodiment.
No phones. No recordings. No performance.
Just humans practising being a little more human together.
Maria & Marcus
Upcoming events
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London Relating Room Beyond Small Talk, Intentional Connections.
Bonnington Community Centre, 11 Vauxhall Grove, London SW8 1TD, UK, London, GBWhat if connection could be more than conversation?
We spend so much of our time talking to people, exchanging stories, asking questions, filling the silences.
But what happens when we slow down?When we become a little more curious about what is happening between us, beneath the words, and within ourselves?
Relating Room is a one-hour experiential space to explore a different way of meeting.Through simple practices, playful questions and moments of genuine presence, you’ll have the chance to notice yourself, meet someone new, and experience what authentic relating can feel like.
No experience needed.
No need to be good at talking.
Just come where you at...A few strangers. A different way of connecting....
Come and see what happens when we move beyond small talk.ESSENTIALS: Understand our space Framework
👉 Download Guidelines### About Us
We’re Maria and Marcus. We created Authentic Relating Experience because we believe something is missing from the way we learn to be with each other. We’re surrounded by people, conversations and opportunities to connect, yet genuine connection can still feel surprisingly difficult or unsatisfying.
We’re curious about the messy, beautiful, uncomfortable and surprising nature of being human, and we’re learning alongside you. Together, we’re creating spaces that feel warm, edgy, playful, imperfect and honest. But more than anything else, authentic. And we’d love to welcome you in.
### Connect With Us
Website: https://authenticrelatingexperience.co.uk/
Instagram:@relating.room
Email: relatingroom@gmail.com
Whatapp: 07341465023PLEASE READ: Booking & Attendance
This is a community event with limited spaces. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your booking as soon as possible so someone else can take your place.
Repeated no-shows without cancelling may result in being moved to the waiting list for future events. This helps us create fair access and plan responsibly for everyone attending.1 attendee - £40.00
London Conscious Dating & Relating | What if love begins with you?
Zen Yoga, 24A Camberwell Grove, London SE5 8RE, UK, London, GB### 👉 Download the ARE Agreements
### What Happens to You When Someone Matters?
A guided, interactive exploration of conscious love, dating, intimacy and authentic connection.
Before you read any further... Pause.
Bring to mind someone whose attention has mattered to you.
Someone you wanted to choose you.
Understand you.
Stay with you.
Love you.
Now notice what happens inside you.
Do you soften?
Tense?
Reach towards them?
Pull away?
Do you become more yourself, or begin carefully editing who you are?
You don’t need to work anything out.
Just notice.
Because love doesn’t only reveal itself in what we feel for another person. It reveals itself in what happens to us when they matter.The ways we open.
The ways we protect ourselves.
The needs we express.
The needs we hide.
The parts of ourselves we offer freely.
And the parts we fear may be too much, or not enough.
This is where our exploration begins.### How Do We Love Without Disappearing?
Most of us carry an idea of what love is supposed to look like.
Find “the one.”
Be chosen.
Make it work.
Don’t ask for too much.
Don’t end up alone.
These pressures can shape our relationships long before we become aware of them.
Perhaps we learn to please rather than speak honestly.
To ignore a boundary rather than risk disappointing someone.
To hide what we need.
To confuse intensity with intimacy.
To hold on when something no longer feels right.
Or to remain guarded when what we really want is to be met.
Not because we are doing love incorrectly.
Because we have all learned ways of finding connection, and ways of protecting ourselves from losing it. This workshop is an opportunity to slow those patterns down and become curious about them.
Not to discover the correct way to love.
To discover how you love.### A Playground for Conscious Love
This isn’t a lecture about relationships, and it isn’t a dating event.
You won’t spend the day being told how a healthy relationship should look. Instead, you’ll enter carefully designed experiences that allow you to notice connection as it unfolds, in your thoughts, your body and the living space between you and another person.
Through partner exercises, movement, meditation, relational games, quiet reflection and group exploration, we’ll investigate questions such as:
What do I truly long for in love and connection?
What happens when I feel wanted, or unwanted?
How do I communicate my needs, desires and boundaries?
What allows me to trust?
What makes me withdraw?
Can I remain connected to another person without abandoning myself?
What does intimacy feel like when I don’t have to perform it?
Some moments may be playful.
Some may feel tender.
Some may surprise you.
Some may show you something you hadn’t noticed before.
All of them are invitations.## This Is Not About Performing Vulnerability
You won’t be expected to reveal your deepest secrets, manufacture intimacy or share anything you would prefer to keep private.
You don’t need to be single.
You don’t need to be in a relationship.
You don’t need to be confident, outgoing or experienced in this kind of work.
You may be dating, partnered, healing, beginning again, questioning what you want—or simply curious about how you meet others when love is involved.
Wherever you are, you are welcome.## Touch, Choice and Consent
Some exercises may offer the possibility of respectful, non-sexual touch. Touch is never assumed or required. Every activity is an invitation.
You are always welcome to participate, adapt, pause, observe or say no. Consent can be changed at any moment, without explanation.
Your boundaries are not obstacles to connection. They are part of how authentic connection becomes possible.## Our Approach
Everything we do is built around three interconnected pillars:
Awareness: noticing what is happening within us, between us and around us, meeting our experience with attention rather than assumption.
Relating: bringing ourselves into connection and participating consciously in the living relationship unfolding between us.
Embodiment: allowing awareness and insight to become something we feel, inhabit and express through the body.
Authentic Relating becomes the bridge between these three: an experiential practice through which we can meet love, intimacy and connection with greater honesty, presence and choice.
Rather than trying to manufacture a particular kind of relationship, we explore how to become more available for the relationships that are already here, and those still waiting to emerge.## An Invitation
Come single.
Come partnered.
Come dating.
Come hopeful.
Come uncertain.You don’t need to arrive ready to open your heart to everyone in the room.
Just arrive willing to notice what makes it open, and what makes it close.## Before You Book: Creating a Safe and Brave Space
We aim to create a space that is both safe and brave.
Safe enough that you can honour your boundaries, ask for what you need and know that your choices will be respected.
Brave enough that you can gently step beyond familiar patterns, meet discomfort with curiosity and experiment with new ways of relating.
Participation is always by invitation. You are welcome to pause, observe, adapt or opt out of any activity at any time.
To support presence and confidentiality, this is a phone-free event, and photography is not permitted during the workshop.
By booking, you agree to respect the group’s boundaries, confidentiality and community agreements.
👉 Download the ARE Agreements## Your Facilitators
Maria Pareo — Therapist, Coach and founder of Psychoenergetic Work®
Marcus Hunt — Psychological Researcher and Facilitator## Connect With Us
Website: https://authenticrelatingexperience.co.uk/
Instagram: @relating.room
Email: authenticrelatingexperience@gmail.com
WhatsApp: 07341 4650231 attendee
