Prepared Interview Questions

Interview Questions

What is the Love-Life Workshops?

The Love-Life Workshops is an anonymous online professional chatroom workshop program for adult men and women with love-life problems.

When did you launch the Love-Life Workshops to the internet?

The Love-Life Workshops website was launched to the internet in January 2008.

Where can we find Love-Life Workshops on the internet?

Our website can be found at www.lovelifeworkshops.com.

What services do you offer at your website?

We offer psycho-educational love-life workshops focused on 58 love-life themes, psycho-educational love-life consultations, public and private love-life oriented chatrooms, and message boards.

Who is your program designed to help?

Our program is tailored for adult men and women 21 years of age and older who are capable of navigating a website online and functioning in a chat-room.

What type of love-life problems does your program focus on?

There are 58 Love-Life Workshop themes across the following major workshop categories: Single's Workshops, Relationship Workshops, Women's Love-life Workshops, Men's Love-Life Workshops, Marital Love-life Workshops, Parenting & Love-Life Workshops, Alternative Love-Life Workshops, Ethnic Love-Life Workshops, Lost Relationship Workshops, Unhealthy Relationship Workshops, and Specific Love-Life Issue Workshops. Our workshops focus on topics ranging from coping with separation and divorce, to developing dating skills, gay and lesbian dating and relationships, Black, Hispanic, Jewish and Asian dating and relationships, identifying abuse in a love relationship, improving a marriage, and coping with a broken heart, just to name a few.

Besides yourself who are the other administrators of the Love-Life Workshops program?

Adam Glenn is our Marketing & Operations Director and Victoria S. Jordan, L.C.S.W. is our Public Relations Director.

You describe your Love-Life Workshops as ‘psycho-educational.’ What does that mean?

By psycho-educaional we mean 'personalized education.' Our psychologists provide the information, guidance, and advice our members need to make the needed changes in their love-lives.

What are the advantages of an ‘online’ workshop over an ‘offline’ workshop?

Convenience, convenience, convenience! From there you can add affordability, real anonymity, and the ease with which we are able to tailor our services to the needs of our members. A service delivery site like the Love-Life Workshops website efficiently provides the information needed to make these program decisions.

You describe your website as a ‘membership community.’ Can you be more specific?

Our very low monthly membership fee and user friendly website design allows our members to get comfortable at our site and focus on their love-life issues. The word community emphasizes our commitment to providing members with a supportive interpersonal place online to do the sensitive love-life learning they have come to us for. The way our system is set up, it is very easy to find and identify with other people with the same love-life concerns. People helping and supporting people, that is preciously what a community does.

Why is it so important that your workshops be anonymous?

The internet offers an opportunity for real anonymity. We know that most people worry about revealing the details of their love-life experience even to a professional. When there is no chance of being identified people relax and are usually more open. An anonymous person interacting with an identified professional is the ideal situation for opening up about love-life issues.

Can anyone become a member of your website?

Any adult man or woman over 21 years of age with basic computer skills.

What are your membership fees?

They range from $9.95 to $11.95 a month depending on your membership package.

What does a workshop cost?

Workshops range from $43.95 to 54.95 also depending on your membership package.

How long are workshops?

Our workshops run 90 minutes long.

How many people are in a workshop?

There are a maximum of 6 people in each workshop.

In your promotional materials you say your members have the option to ‘observe’ any workshop as a benefit of membership. What does that involve?

Our website is set up so that our members know when workshops are scheduled. As a benefit of membership, they can 'observe' any workshop on any love-life topic as a vicarious learning experience. For example, if you are going through a divorce and notice that there are a few divorce workshops every week you might want to observe these in addition to whatever workshops you are registered for. Six people talking about divorce with a psychologist who has expertise in this area is bound to be a learning experience for everyone including observers.

As the founder of the Love-Life Workshops program, what is your love-life philosophy?

My love-life philosophy is made up of three concepts. First, that one's love-life psychology, or the psychological pattern that controls a person's love-life, should be reviewed from time to time. By reviewed I mean made conscious. A conscious love-life is one that can be modified when necessary. Especially when you discover that what you are thinking, feeling, or doing in your love-life is not working for you. For this purpose, I developed what I call the Love-Life Review. It is made up of a number of ideas that can help a person identify the areas of his/her love-life psychology needing change. Second, I think we should all understand that what we do in our love-lives is the result of somekind of learning. As such it can be unlearned and something better relearned. I think we all need to focus on preparing for love. There are things a person can do to increase her/his receptivity to love when it happens. Lastly, I would add that we also have to learn ways to sustain our love-lives over time. The last two items I describe in greater detail in my Practices of Conscious Loving. So preparing for,  sustaining, and reviewing are very useful ways of thinking about a healithier love-life.

Can you tell us about the psychologists conducting workshops and consultations on your website?

They are all New York State licensed Ph.D. psychologists. I personally selected each and every one of them to conduct specific workshops based not only on their academic and clinical expertise, but also on their own love-life experiences. I figured that a workshop leader who has had the experience she/he is focusing on is in a better position to lead that workshop. I also encouraged our workshop leaders to say something about their own personal love-life experience on their workshop leader profiles at our website. I think this personalized more open approach will encourage our members to trust opening up about their own experience even more.

How many psychologists are available on your website?

There are 62 New York State licensed Ph.D. psychologists conducting love-life oriented psycho-educational services on our website.

How were your experts assigned to specific workshops?

Each psychologist was extensively interviewed with a focus on their knowledge of love-life issues. Exceptional training or specialization in interpersonal relations and a demonstrated indepth understanding of a particular love-life issue due to a studied personal experience were the primary reasons a particular workshop was assigned.

What can your members know about a workshop leader before they take a workshop?

They can peruse the workshop leader profile pages on our website and see a photo of each workshop leader as well as professional credentials such as education, clinical, and academic experiences, as well as the personal and professional reasons for their particular love-life expertise. In many cases a workshop leader also volunteered a personal love-life biography.

Where can the press and/or curious public go for more detailed information about your Love-Life Workshops program?

The press and other interested persons can find more specific details about our program on our blog at www.lovelifeworkshopsblog.com and on our website at www.lovelifeworkshops.com.