Dr. Tessabella Lovemore spent 20 years working in schools, teaching children of all abilities and ages. Having undertaken counselling training, she then completed a master’s degree in behaviour in schools and coordinated a behaviour-related research project. Subsequently, she trained in Anthroposophical Psychotherapy and attained a PhD for her study of teachers’ behaviour in relation to what they say about teaching morality. During this time, she also developed a private practice counselling teachers and parents, and learning and teaching Anthroposophical Psychotherapy (a form of person-centred  psychotherapy).

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Dr. Lovemore describes school teaching as fundamental to the forming of her future activity, noting that the contact she had with the lives of the children proved some of the most moving experiences of her life. She recognises that her life and work comprise a long journey toward understanding the relevance of how children are brought up leads to the adults and their suffering we see.

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It was when Dr. Lovemore was invited to run a course on relationships that she started to realise her personal experience of love—of both receiving and giving it—was largely absent, and that a practical form of love was needed: one with an enormous capacity for compassion and forgiveness, embracing love for anyone. She feels that she still benefits from the exercises she developed through numerous courses and that there may be a fitting irony in how her married name, Lovemore, now sits better than it once did.

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As part of a busy life teaching and researching, Dr. Lovemore has run courses called How to Love and How Children Learn, which involve exercises that become a personal journey of discovery and change for participants with their general relationships and especially with children around them. Following from her love of education and children, Dr. Lovemore has taught a course on Boys! Born Anxious and has developed courses on post-pandemic phenomena, including working with anxiety, with a focus on exercises for listening and decision-making. She acknowledges a debt of gratitude to Allan Schore, who brought All Our Sons: Boys at Risk to her attention.

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Dr. Lovemore has now retired from therapeutic practice and is focused on giving periodic mental-health-related master classes online.

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Active Practical Love Initiative (APLi)

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The Active Practical Love Initiative CIC was formed by Dr. Lovemore and a group of professionals to protect and evolve Tessabella’s work and academic insights including courses created and delivered for more than 30 years. The Active Practical Love Initiative have taken on the task of teaching Dr. Lovemore's courses and finding public funding, so it becomes accessible for all.  

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For members of the Active Practical Love Initiative, loving in this novel way has created remarkable and lasting transformations in our lives, the lives of our families and the lives of those we support and interact with daily; it has truly expanded our consciousness and awareness of others. Participants of our courses, who are able to practice the simple exercises, report amazing experiences. The effects are robust over time and participants report that they have learned about loving anyone unconditionally, unreservedly and wholeheartedly. 

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Thus, we have come together from many countries, because we feel confident the emergent properties of these approachable lessons will continue to help those from all journeys and origins who find it difficult to love and who struggle to understand their children. To love and to be loved improves quality of life, self-worth,  sense of purpose, health and happiness. 

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We teach in group sessions, one-to-one and in schools; we especially wish to reach parents and teachers and anyone working with children. 

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