A one-day Valentine's Day workshop for single people exploring relationship patterns, protective defences, and reconnecting with the capacity for closeness and intimacy.
A Valentine's Day workshop for single people with Oliver Baum and Giselle Monbiot
Valentine's Day can bring up many things. Longing, frustration, hope, grief, curiosity.
This one-day workshop offers a different way of meeting it.
Rather than focusing on finding love, we'll explore what may be quietly protecting you from intimacy and connection — and why those patterns once made sense.
This is a compassionate, embodied day for single people who want to understand their relationship patterns more deeply, soften old defences, and reconnect with their capacity for closeness with themselves and others.
What We'll Explore Together
Throughout the day, we'll gently uncover the different ways protective patterns may be operating, including:
Fear of loss or abandonment How early experiences and unmet grief can make closeness feel risky.
Family system influences Unconscious loyalties, inherited beliefs, and relational patterns that don't belong to you alone.
Armouring and control Including using "working on ourselves" as a way to stay defended and avoid vulnerability.
Living in the head, disconnected from the body How disembodiment limits intimacy — and how reconnecting with the body restores choice and presence.
Fear of being seen Shame, unworthiness, and the quiet belief of "I'm too much" or "not enough".
Capacity to receive Learning to let care, presence and love land — and recognising how others can reflect our own hearts back to us.
How We'll Work
This is an experiential, embodied day. You will not be asked to share more than feels right for you.
We will be weaving together:
Family Constellations: A beautiful way of exploring how your family history and early experiences may still be influencing your relationships today — often without you realising it. This work helps bring clarity to patterns around closeness, distance and intimacy that don't come from you alone.
Somatic Work (Body-Based Awareness): Simple, guided practices to help you tune back into your body. This supports your nervous system to settle and helps you notice where you hold tension or protection — and what helps you feel safer and more open.
Breathwork: Using the breath to calm the system and create a sense of safety, alongside an embodied, guided breathwork journey to help emotions and insights move through, rather than staying stuck. This supports release, understanding and integration.
Together, these approaches allow understanding to move beyond insight into lived, embodied change.
Event Details
- 📍 Location: Guildford Institute, Ward St, North St, Guildford GU1 4LH (40 mins by train from Waterloo)
- 🗓️ Date: Saturday 14th February 2026 (Valentine's Day)
- 🕙 Time: 10.30am – 5.00pm (arrive from 10am)
- 👥 Places are limited to 12 attendees
- 💷 Price: £120 (Early bird £90 until 1st February — enter "connection" in the coupon section)
- ☕ Includes all sessions and light refreshments
Cancellation policy: Full refund up to 7 days before the event.
Your Guides
Giselle Monbiot is a breathwork facilitator and Compassionate Inquiry® practitioner devoted to helping others return to their inner truth through body-based healing, conscious breath, and trauma-informed inquiry.
Oliver Baum a Psychotherapist, Spiritual Mentor and Systemic Facilitator with extensive experience. Oliver's natural curiosity has led to the study of a diverse range of therapeutic models, philosophies and spiritual practices.
Together, we offer a sacred space for your process — held with integrity, depth, and kindness.
