Live Love Labour Festival 2025: Opting Out of Bullshit Norms

Live Love Labour Festival 2025: Opting Out of Bullshit Norms

“Get married and have kids before 30.” 👰🏽‍♀️👩🏻‍🍼

“Climb the ladder.” 💼

“Man up, real men don’t cry” 👊🏻

“Serve the guests, you’re a girl.” 😐

Tired of conforming to societal labels, norms, expectations, script? 🐑

Live Love Labour Festival is back! This year, we invite you to rethink norms and rules that have shaped your lives, relationships and careers, and Live, Love and Labour at your own terms!

Event Details

🗓️ November 1, 2025 (Saturday), 10am-7pm GMT+8

📍Me.reka Makerspace, Publika KL

🎟️ Early Bird (RM15), Regular (RM25)

*Early bird participants will receive a limited edition philosopher blind box coaster (6 designs)!

What is Live Love Labour Festival?

Live Love Labour is Malaysia’s first-of-its-kind philosophy-art-lifestyle fusion festival that aims to help people seek greater fulfilment and meaning in their relationships, work, and overall existence. Each festival brings together 500-700 participants from diverse backgrounds, values and belief systems, to rediscover the meaning of existence, love and work!

Why the Theme "Opt Out of Bullshit Norms"?

Some says that we currently live in an "Opt Out" era. Today’s generation are no longer blindly following traditional scripts for career, family, or social life—hustle culture, nuclear family, parenthood, stable careers etc.

However, some sees this as a sense of irresponsibility, and in conflict with maintaining social harmony with others.

So, what should one do the midst of this shifting landscape? Should one opt in? Opt out? What then, defines a fulfilling life, a meaningful relationship, or a successful career today?

Join us as we explore how to navigate life with authenticity and intentionality, without losing sight of the values that bind us together as a society!

Festival Highlights

Workshops/Activities to Rethink Norms & Rewrite Scripts

Festival Agenda

Our Speakers

We're inviting local and world-leading luminaries who actively question norms in life, relationship and work to the festival, from philosophers and psychologists, to sociologists and activists. Stay tuned.

👤 Dr. Johnben Loy, Founder and Clinical Director of Rekindle, Pioneer of Marriage and Family Therapy in Malaysia.

👤 Dr. Aadrea Koh, Sexologist and Professional Counsellor, Rekindle Centre for Systemic Therapy Malaysia.

👤 Danniel Iskandar, entertainment entrepreneur, freelance professional emcee, moderator, host, actor, open relationship advocate.

And more to come!

Ticket Information

Early Bird Admission: RM15 (Receive a Limited Edition Philosopher Coaster Blind Box for FREE!)

Regular Admission: RM25

Seriously, Why Bother?

🐑 Identify Unspoken Scripts that Have Shaped Your Life: Recognize the invisible scripts shaping love, the shackles that the workplace puts on us, and the way we receive and provide love based on gender stereotypes.

🐑 Break Free from Social Norms and Expectations: Question, unlearn and break free of the social norms and labels that have shaped your life and relationships.

🐑 No-BS Conversations and Workshops: Go beyond self-help books that are usually made to meet commercial needs rather than helping individuals engage in deep existential reflection about oneself, and have meaningful conversation with your loved ones, friends and other participants.

🐑 Live More Critically: Meaning need not only be found through short-term solutions such as escapes, shopping sprees or holidays. Cultivate a sense of purpose and meaning in life through thinking critically on societal norms.

🐑 Love Better: Learn how to build more meaningful and authentic relationships by thinking beyond the rules and narratives we have been taught our entire life.

🐑 Work Smarter: Overwork? Not feeling fulfilled? Discover alternatives and the philosophy of meaningful labour beyond toxic hustle and nihilistic surrender.

🐑 Grow Your Network: Mix and mingle with participants from diverse backgrounds and beliefs, as well as luminaries, speakers, workshop professionals, and like-minded friends from all across Malaysia and beyond!

🐑 Discover Timeless Wisdom while Having Fun: From escape room and conversation card games to open mics, this philosophy-art-lifestyle fusion festival allows you have the courage to Live, Love and Labour at your own terms!

What are you waiting for? Join us to reimagine #BSNorms, and Live, Love and Labour at your own terms in #LLL2025! 🐑

🔗 ✅ For more information, visit: https://www.myphilsoc.com/livelovelabour-25/

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