Beyond the Swipe: Lessons on Love

## PRICE OF EVENT: 200 THB

### A Socrates Café Dialogue Inspired by Tolstoy & Dostoevsky

For Singles, Couples, and Seekers
Are you tired of dating advice that feels like a strategy game?
Does modern romance sometimes feel more like a performance than a real connection?
We’re often told to chase sparks, chemistry, and compatibility. Yet some of the deepest thinkers on human relationships—Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky—understood love as something far richer, more demanding, and more meaningful than anything an app can offer.
This workshop invites you to step beyond swipes and surface-level advice, and into a deeper conversation about what love actually asks of us.

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## About the Workshop

“Beyond the Swipe: Lessons on Love” is a 3-hour facilitated workshop and Socrates Café–style dialogue.
This is not a lecture and not group therapy. It’s a guided, reflective experience where philosophy meets real-life relationships. No prior reading is required—we’ll introduce the ideas and questions together.
We leave behind the “dating app mindset” and explore love as something practiced, not performed.

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## Two Powerful Lessons on Love

### 🕊️ Lesson One — Love as Peace (Tolstoy)

How do we recognize relationships that quiet the ego instead of inflating it?
Inspired by Tolstoy, we explore love as a source of inner peace, honesty, and moral clarity, rather than anxiety, comparison, or constant self-presentation.

### 🔥 Lesson Two — Love as Responsibility (Dostoevsky)

Love often involves sacrifice—but where is the line between devotion and self-betrayal?
Drawing from Dostoevsky, we look at how to distinguish healthy responsibility from harmful suffering, and how to love deeply without losing yourself.

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## Workshop Flow

Part I: Love and Peace — Ego vs. Truth
We begin by distinguishing passion from peace. Through guided reflection, participants explore where the need for approval, admiration, or control may be disguising itself as love—and how to seek connections that support truth and wholeness.
Part II: Love and Suffering — Responsibility vs. Harm
Vulnerability is essential to love, but love should not erase dignity. We’ll explore the difference between bearing a burden for someone and enabling them, and how responsibility can exist without control or rescue.
Part III: Dating with Depth
We bring insight into practice. Together, we’ll reframe how we approach first dates, ongoing relationships, and long-term commitment—moving beyond surface “interview questions” toward character, freedom, and integrity.
Part IV: Closing Circle
We end with a shared reflection on love not as a feeling we chase, but as a vocation we practice.

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## Who This Workshop Is For

• Singles tired of the superficiality of modern dating
• Couples seeking to deepen their connection beyond routine
• Seekers & the faith-curious who welcome spiritual depth without dogma

No specific beliefs are required—only openness, respect, and curiosity.

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## The Atmosphere

• Safe: Share only what feels right for you
• Honest: We speak from lived experience, not advice-giving
• Deep: We skip small talk and focus on what matters