Love On Demand? A Playful Exploration of Divine Love, Appreciation & Connection

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How simple prompts can help us feel deeply loved, seen, and appreciated, with ourselves, each other, and the Divine.

What if feeling deeply seen, appreciated, encouraged, and loved did not have to depend entirely on chance, chemistry, or the right relationship?

For more than twenty years, Marion Assenmacher has been exploring a surprisingly simple possibility: Can we intentionally create the conditions in which people are much more likely to experience love, appreciation, meaningful connection, and a positive sense of themselves?

The result is an evolving collection of playful, highly interactive practices now known as the Divine Love Modality.

This presentation will explore some of the larger ideas behind the work as well as simple practices you can experience and use immediately. We will look at how easily human attention can become organized around problems, shortcomings, comparison, fear, and what needs to be fixed, and what may become possible when we intentionally create spaces that do something very different.

What happens when people are invited to look for what is already beautiful, lovable, meaningful, strong, and worth celebrating in themselves and one another?

Can appreciation become more than an occasional compliment? Can positive feedback become deeper, more intuitive, and more personally meaningful? And can spiritual connection become something we experience together rather than only seek privately?

Marion will share practical prompts and simple guidelines designed to make these exchanges safe, natural, and surprisingly easy. Participants will have opportunities to try brief Divine Love explorations and will leave with ideas they can use on their own and with friends, partners, families, or groups, whether or not they ever attend another Divine Love event.

The evening will also introduce some of the newer developments in this work, including playful Divine Love activities and tools created for everyday use, and the possibility of a new local Divine Love group in Ashland.

Come curious. No particular spiritual belief is required beyond openness to exploring love, human goodness, and, if meaningful to you, a loving or supportive Divine presence or Higher Power of your own understanding.

Marion Assenmacher, M.A. in Education, is the creator of the Divine Love Modality and founder of Divine Love Groups.

She moved from Germany to Ashland in 2001, originally drawn by the spiritual freedom and experimentation she encountered through the Conversations with God community. One question increasingly fascinated her: Why, in a society where almost everything else has become available “on demand,” do we still leave something as essential as feeling loved largely to chance?

In 2004, Marion began experimenting with small groups in Ashland designed specifically to help people intentionally give and receive meaningful love, appreciation, encouragement, and spiritual connection. What began as a simple group experiment gradually developed into a large collection of structured, playful practices that can be adapted for groups, friends, partners, families, and individual reflection.

Over the years, people from many countries and spiritual backgrounds have participated in Divine Love Groups and explorations, reinforcing Marion’s conviction that the basic human desire to be deeply seen, appreciated, and loved is remarkably universal.

Her continuing passion is to explore how love can become more available, practical, mutual, and intentional, and how even small changes in the way we see and respond to one another might contribute to a more loving culture.

Presenter’s Website: [https://DivineLoveGroups.org](https://divinelovegroups.org/)

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