Linda Bloom, LCSW, and Charlie Bloom, MSW, are both counselors, educators, seminar leaders, and co-authors of four books on relationships, including the best-seller, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last (over 100,000 copies sold). They have been married since 1972 and are the parents of two adult children and three grandchildren. They have served as counselors and consultants to individuals, couples, families, and organizations since 1975.

Their work focuses on the enhancement of relationships, particularly committed partnerships, and they have been co-facilitating seminars and workshops throughout the country and overseas since 1986. Linda and Charlie have appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs over the years and they have been regular presenters at many learning centers and educational institutions, including the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, the University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, the California Institute of Integral Studies, Antioch University, The California School of Professional Psychology, the Omega Center, and many others.

They blog for several on-line journals, including Psych Central, the Huffington Post, and Psychology today, where their blogs have had over 5 million hits since 2011. Their most recent book, That Which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Became Stronger at the Broken Places was published in April 2018 and has been widely praised. That Which Doesn't Kill Us is the story of a couple's ten-year journey that took them through a series of ordeals that crippled their family and nearly destroyed their marriage. Trained as psychotherapists and practicing relationship counselors, both Charlie and Linda found that their professional training wasn't enough to liberate them from the challenges they encountered. This workshop will confront these and other questions that directly relate to our ability to dive fully into the bottomless pool of our heart’s truth, and feel love in all of it’s physical, sexual and spiritual splendor. We will learn ways of understanding and neutralizing patterns that limit intimacy and practice ways of being that deepen and enhance it. We will also explore the inner landscape that exists beyond intimacy, that territory of the heart where the deep connection of ‘two’ becomes the transcendent ‘one’.