Most festivals are built around stages, but often connection happens in the spaces between them. Making those connections can feel elusive, especially if you’re arriving on your own or you don't know many people. Even if you’ve made the trip with a group, there’s always more to explore and new people to meet. The good news is that a few small, intentional choices can make all the difference and help you connect at festivals time after time. 

If we’re single on Valentine’s Day, we have a choice how to respond. We can shut out the world and pretend the day isn’t happening, or we can embrace the occasion and let it be a turning point – a chance to refresh our dating life so that we can have a different experience this time next year. If that sounds appealing, here are three ways to lean into Valentine’s Day this time around.

It’s that time of the year again when you might want to look back to take stock of how the year has gone, think about what has gone well and what hasn’t, what you’ve achieved and what you would like to see happen in the coming year. If you’re single, you may have had a view of what you wanted to achieve this year. Meeting someone special is an obvious one, but the steps to get there might have been on your to-do list too.