In Memoriam: Robert (Bob) Kohlenberg
We lost a beloved friend and international treasure on
November 28th, 2021
“My mission is to engage as fully and deeply as I can with the world—including interpersonal, cultural, and physical realms. This includes: 1) striving to love ever more deeply and increasing the scope and intensity of my attachment to, caring for, and benefiting others; 2) increasing my concern and involvement with solving sociopolitical problems; 3) passionately playing with ideas that foster creativity and intellectually challenging myself and stimulating others to do the same: and 4) learning about, deepening my understanding, and having hands-on involvement and connection to the physical and technological features of the world in which I live.” – Dr. Bob Kohlenberg
A WELCOME FROM THE FOUNDER
OF ACL GLOBAL PROJECT
Meet Mavis Tsai in this brief, heartfelt ‘Welcome’ video.
WHAT ARE AWARENESS, COURAGE &
LOVE MEETINGS?
See and hear what ACL meetings are and what they mean to people who have attended.
Who We Are
Awareness, Courage and Love (ACL) Global Project is a nonprofit organization created with the generous help of an anonymous donor. ACL Meetups started in 2015 with just one group based in Seattle, Washington.
In four years, it has grown into chapters in 92 cities around the globe and is ever expanding.
You can now have ACL anywhere at anytime with our new "Living ACL" app for iPhone and Android. Create deeper, more meaningful connections with yourself and others. Features include: weekly ACL Live events online, exercises to help you explore and discover yourself in depth with gentleness and non-judgment, guided meditations, and more. Download "Living ACL" at your favorite app store.
CREATE EXTRAORDINARY INTERACTIONS
MAVIS TSAI | TEDXEVERETT
Our ability to form close connections is not only at the core of our mental health, but interpersonal closeness helps us live longer. Mavis Tsai presents the components of an extraordinary interaction and six powerful questions you can share with others to create unforgettable conversations.
What We Do
We nurture interpersonal connection and fill lives with purpose and meaning.
Connection has been unravelling globally over the past few decades – leaving more and more people feeling isolated. ACL creates opportunities and processes for us to intentionally look further and deeper within ourselves and others to build relationships based on what is genuine.
Awareness, Courage & Love Meetups Change Lives
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
From Buenos Aires, Argentina
“This experience was like lending life to each other for a short moment and embracing them with love with heaven and hell inside of them.”
Micaela
From Buenos Aires, Argentina
“This was a special experience for me. I was able to find joy in my body. I thought it was impossible to contact joy at this moment but I was able to. So I’m very grateful for that”
--a participant with terminal cancer.
ACL Member
From Bamberg, Germany
“I liked the guidance very much on how to listen to each other, and also the time structure, so that everyone had the opportunity to have a say and to be heard.”
ACL Member
From Bamberg, Germany
“Listening to people, really listening is important to me. The framework gave me protection to encounter others with openness and warm-heartedness and made me want to be more warm-hearted with myself and others even more often. Thanks for the great experience!
ACL Member
From Seattle, Washington
“I was very skeptical & nervous but I think I got something out of today. What that is, I'm not sure, but I feel as though there is a weight that I didn't know I had has been lifted from my shoulders.“
ACL Member
From Seattle, Washington
“Knowing that this is a safe place where magical connection WILL happen is helpful. I loved the whole meeting.“
ACL Member
From Berlin, Germany
“Sooo much to say..where to begin? Being seen was a blessing. I went through a huge range of emotions and found that people don't run away when I show them.”
Micaela
From Berlin, Germany
“It is beautiful to experience moments of closeness with strangers.“
ACL Member
From Brasilia, Brazil
“It was very important for me to reconnect with myself. The sharing and feedback with the groupwas very powerful. Environments like this meetup are scarce in daily life.“
(MCS)
From Brasilia, Brazil
“When I try to interact differently with people I already know, I feel so alone. It's very important tobe here, because I have such a different experience.“
(IR)
From Winterthur, Switzerland
“This was a very new and surprising experience, to connect in a meaningful way with people I never have met before“
(VC)
From Winterthur, Switzerland
“I felt alive and stimulated connecting with others“
(MJ)
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“ACL creates new possibilities for me in living”
(Rita)
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“It made me quite reflective and helped me to open my heart.”
(Ianne)
From Tenerife, Canary Islands
“These meetings are helping me to develop my self-love. It is incredible how feeling well treated by strangers I started treating myself better.”
ACL Member
From Tenerife, Canary Islands
“I was nervous to come here, and I’m going home full of a sense of peace and connection with the world, and even the Universe.”
ACL Member
Live with Awareness, Courage and Love Meetings
We have 39 CHAPTERS
(26 public, 13 Private, & 1 International)
in 37 CITIES, in 21 COUNTRIES,
on 6 CONTINENTS
