Love can be studied
We treat love as a measurable, teachable human capacity — modelled, instrumented and tested with the same rigour any science demands.
About Love and Bliss
One organisation for love, bliss and human flourishing
Love and Bliss (LAB) is the parent organisation. We study how love is lived and how bliss is cultivated — then carry it the whole way, from research idea to published paper to practice in real communities.
Our mission
To advance human flourishing — and to prove it works
Love and Bliss develops, tests and shares psycho-spiritual approaches to flourishing. Our founding module, the Bliss Enhancement Programme, is a twelve-week intervention now running as a 100-participant pilot study.
Around it we operate a study register, a research ethics committee, an open repository, a press and a peer-reviewed journal — all sharing a single governance, security, audit and review foundation. One organisation, one governed path, one standard of care.
Bliss can be cultivated
Flourishing is not luck. It grows through practice, reflection and community, which is exactly what our programmes are built to teach.
Knowledge must be shared
Findings that stay behind a paywall change nothing. We publish openly, with permanent identifiers, so others can build on the work.
- 12
- Week flagship programme
- 100
- Pilot study participants
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- Peer-reviewed journal
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- Community initiatives
What we oversee
The Love and Bliss family
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: the study register, researchers, ethics committee and scholarly capacity building.
See our researchBliss Enhancement Programme
Our founding intervention: twelve weeks of guided psycho-spiritual practice, now in a 100-participant pilot study.
Explore BEPJPPAS
The Journal of Positive Psychology, Agapology and Spirituality — peer-reviewed, open access, DOI-registered.
Read the journalLAB Press
Books, reports, essays and commentary that carry our scholarship to practitioners and the wider public.
Visit LAB PressCommunity & impact
Africa LaBS schools, the Daniel Circle and Foxes on Fire — flourishing put to work in real communities.
Meet the communityOpen repository
Publications, open datasets and DOI records, with governed access where data must stay restricted.
Browse the repositoryGovernance
How we hold ourselves to account
Trust is the condition of this work. These four commitments are built into the platform itself, not left to good intentions.
Ethical review before anything begins
Every study is submitted section by section, risk-tiered, and reviewed by conflict-checked reviewers before a committee decision is recorded.
Participants protected by design
Research data is pseudonymised. Facilitators never see assessment scores, and any participant may withdraw at any point without giving a reason.
A tamper-evident record
Governance decisions are written to a hash-chained audit trail, so approvals and certificates can still be verified years later.
Open dissemination as standard
Outputs and open datasets are published with DOIs and citation metadata, so findings can be reused, cited and credited properly.
Leadership
Institute board
Governance of the institute as a whole. Journal appointments are held separately on the JPPAS editorial board.
Dr Noel Maturlu
Founder & Director
Institutional strategy, research leadership and Principal Investigator for BEP
Raziah Quallatein Mwawanga
Director of Operations & LAB Press
Operations, publishing programme and community initiatives
Dr Charles Kachitsa
Advisory Board Member
Research advisory and methodological scrutiny
Dr Philip Nukpe
Advisory Board Member
Spiritual and ethical oversight of programmes
Work with Love and Bliss
Research enquiries go to research@loveandbliss.org, ethics enquiries to ethics@loveandbliss.org. For partnerships, teaching or media, start with the contact page.