Who we are
Love and Bliss (LAB) is the parent organisation that owns and oversees every entity in our ecosystem — an institute, a press, a journal, programmes and a community of practice.
Love and Bliss
Advancing Human Flourishing
We research love, publish what we learn, and build programmes that help people flourish. One organisation, one governed path from idea to lasting impact.
Why we exist
We believe love is measurable, teachable and transformational. We study it rigorously, publish it openly, and turn it into practice that changes lives.
How we create impact
Every idea travels one governed path: research and ethical review, delivery to real participants, then open publication with a permanent record.
Our philosophy
The LOVE Framework
Four dimensions of lived love shape how we research, publish and teach.
- LLinkedness
- Knowledge belongs to the relationships that make it possible. We publish so that scholars, practitioners and communities remain connected to the record rather than separated from it by paywalls.
- OOpulence
- Abundance of mind, not of means. The richness of an argument, a dataset or a method is what carries weight — never the richness of the author's institution.
- VValory
- The courage to hold a standard when it is costly. We defend editorial independence structurally, and we take responsibility for every judgement made in our name.
- EEquanimity
- Steadiness and even-handedness. Every author is handled the same way, every article is presented the same way, and the institution is sustained without distorting either.
Constitutional instrument · Version 1.0 — August 2026
The LAB Publishing Charter
A publishing ecosystem in which scholarship is judged by scholarship, not by the author's ability to pay.
Six principles — Merit Before Money, Editorial Independence, Universal Access, Scholarly Reciprocity, Mission-Based Sustainability and Human-Governed AI — bind The LAB Institute, LAB Press, JPPAS and every future LAB journal, book, report and convening.
Read the CharterThe LAB ecosystem
Everything Love and Bliss owns and oversees
Each entity is a doorway into the same mission — and each inherits the same governance, ethics and open-science commitments.
The LAB Institute
Our research and education body: studies, researchers, ethics governance and scholarly capacity building.
EnterBliss Enhancement Programme
A twelve-week psycho-spiritual flourishing programme, delivered end to end with its 100-participant pilot study.
EnterJPPAS
The Journal of Positive Psychology, Agapology and Spirituality — peer review, policies, issues and archives.
EnterLAB Press
Books, reports, writings and commentary that carry our scholarship to a wider public.
EnterResearch
A governed study register, from concept and approval through delivery to closure.
EnterEthics
Section-by-section applications, conflict-checked reviewers, committee decisions and verifiable certificates.
EnterRepository
Publications, open datasets and DOI records, with governed access to restricted data.
EnterCommunity & impact
Practitioners, partners and participants putting love and bliss to work in everyday life.
EnterFlagship programme
The Bliss Enhancement Programme
Twelve weeks of guided psycho-spiritual practice, with reflection, coaching insight and a growing picture of your own flourishing — delivered on the Love and Bliss platform alongside its 100-participant pilot study.
Explore the programmeA shared foundation
Every Love and Bliss entity runs on the same foundation: role-based authorisation, row-level data isolation, a tamper-evident audit trail, and one review engine serving proposals, ethics and editorial decisions.
Research · Publish · Flourish
Whether you come as a participant, a researcher, an author or a partner, there is a way into the work.