Purpose

We are here to help people come home to themselves through the healing power of unconditional love. While that may seem unattainable as humans, it is given to us at birth and serves as our North Star. When we know ourselves, trust ourselves, and love ourselves fully, we become unstoppable. From that place we can elevate and liberate ourselves, our communities, and the world at large.

Black Lives Matter

S.O.U.L. is a collective dedicated to the liberation, celebration and respect of All Black Lives. We are committed to co-creating healing spaces to support Black communities to reclaim love, liberation, justice and joy as their birthright.

Backstory

Inspired by the pioneering efforts of bell hooks and her book “All About Love: New Visions”, SOUL Founder, Lotus Wong, was compelled to create a school that puts love and liberation at the center.

“Schools for love do not exist,” hooks writes. “Everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. Those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. However, this love often eludes us. And we spend a lifetime undoing the damage cased by cruelty, neglect and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in the relationships where we simply did not know what to do. To open our hearts more fully to love’s power and grace we must dare to acknowledge how little we know of love in both theory and practice.”

She is 100% right.

From that moment, a seed was planted to create a place to learn about and practice love, slowly but surely, the School of Unconditional Love (SOUL) was born.