A Global Movement for Evolutionary Partnership
Discover the secret of creating healthy resilient relationships based on co-creation and mutual flourishing
Holiday Pre-Launch
Join the Lasting Movement — Holiday Pre-Launch Ends January 3, 2026
What worked before no longer works.
Human relationships are being asked to survive levels of complexity, speed, emotional load, and change they were never designed for. Repair-based models, coping strategies, and chemistry-driven attraction are failing people who genuinely want deep, lasting partnership.
Lasting is a movement devoted to preparing people for relationships that can endure—and evolve—now and into the future. The book Lasting is one of the primary ways this movement is delivered.
EARLY PRAISE
The New Ten Commandments for Modern Day Relationships.
Michael Bowker
Author of 24 books, including Gods of Our Time, winner of the International Novel of the Year
WHY THIS MOVEMENT EXISTS — NOW
Relationships are being asked to carry more than ever before.
The pressure is intense.
We can care deeply, communicate more, and genuinely try to do everything "right," yet still feel confused, worn down, or quietly disconnected.
This isn't a personal failure.
The world has changed faster than the way we were conditioned to relate.
Roles are shifting, communication never stops, emotional awareness is expanding, and relationships are carrying more weight than our natural ways of connecting have been allowed to hold.
This movement exists because trying harder within outdated models and inherited beliefs is no longer enough.
What's needed now is a return to what is innate, paired with a new way to prepare relationships for the reality we're living in.
So connection doesn't just survive modern life, but grows stronger and lasts longer within it.
Lasting exists to correct this mismatch.
Truth
When systems change faster than our models, failure becomes inevitable—even with good intentions.
Emotional Resonance
If you feel like you're trying harder but getting less… you're not broken. You're navigating with outdated maps.
WHAT MAKES LASTING DIFFERENT
Lasting does not teach people how to fix broken relationships.
It teaches people how to prepare for relationships that don't break in the first place.
The Movement's Core Commitments
Preparation over repair
Because repairing after damage is costly, exhausting, and often unnecessary.
Awareness before advice
Because advice often fails under stress. Clear presence and curiosity hold.
Evolution over endurance
Because survival relationships are not thriving relationships.
We ask:
What must be in place for relationships to remain viable as humans evolve?
This single shift changes everything.
When people are properly prepared, relationships stabilize naturally.
THE BOOK AS A DELIVERY VEHICLE
Why a Book?
Movements require shared language.
Lasting provides that language.
The book Lasting is not the destination. What the book provides:
Creates shared understanding
Names what we're already feeling
Offers something solid to return to when emotions run high
The book allows the movement to spread beyond rooms, sessions, and retreats—into daily life, partnerships, families, and communities.
Reading the book is how people enter the movement.
Living the framework is how the movement spreads.
Immediate Access for All Participants
Regardless of whether you choose one book or two, you immediately receive:
The Lasting ebook — the movement's foundational language
Your Personal Energetic Profile — the blueprint for how you are wired to relate
A Dynamic, Transformational, Insightful, and Courageously Intimate Live Q&A
These are not bonuses. They are orientation tools.
THE PREPARE FRAMEWORK
The Structural Foundation of the Lasting Movement
PREPARE describes the conditions required for relationships to survive and thrive in an evolving world. These are not ideals. They are structural necessities.
Presence
Information can be received instead of defended against.
Reliability
Safety comes from patterns, not promises.
Exploration
Curiosity replaces assumption in moments of difference.
Purpose
Partnerships know why they exist beyond attraction or convenience.
Alignment
Differences become navigable instead of divisive.
Resilience
Stress strengthens rather than erodes connection.
Evolution
Growth does not require leaving yourself—or each other—behind.
If any one of these is missing, relationships destabilize under pressure.
When all are present, connection feels lighter, safer, more alive, and sustainable.
THE 11 ILLUMINATIONS
The Practices That Bring PREPARE to Life
The 11 Illuminations are the applied disciplines of the Lasting Movement. They teach people how to relate consciously instead of reactively.
Inquiry
Nurturing our curiosity to remain open for surprise - the foundation for awareness and understanding.
Love
The energy that animates all connections. No need to look any further—it's our Life-force.
Clarity
Seeing reality without distortion and Finding the true gifts when we let go of labels.
Attractions
How chemistry truly impacts our behaviors and decisions. Understanding what draws and repels us and why
Non-Judgment
Embracing the unknown by Releasing assumptions and conclusions that block connection and fuel suffering
Authentic Relating
Showing up without performance — Rediscovering the unapologetically expressed version of you.
Differences
Valuing contrast instead of fighting it — Embrace and celebrate our differences and everything changes.
Communication
Understanding how we speak, hear and feel - our genetic coding provides guidance. Without it we are lost
Courageous Intimacy
Staying present when things matter most—The pinnacle of relating in evolutionary partnerships.
Co-Creation
The un-recognized and essential ingredient that assures relationships thrive.
Environments
Creating conditions that support growth by Achieving spaces that welcomes us home.
Together, PREPARE and the 11 Illuminations form a complete relational operating system.
—a shared foundation for how we understand and live relationships. This isn't about personal growth alone. It's about learning how to be in relationship — together — in a changing world.
THE AUTHORS
Together, Larry and Michele combine structure and heart, clarity and compassion, to guide the evolution of modern partnership.
LARRY MICHEL
Founder of the Institute of Genetic Energetics | Author of Lasting
Larry Michel is the founder of the Institute of Genetic Energetics and the primary author of Lasting: 11 Illuminations and the Essential Questions for Committed Evolutionary Partnerships. Known to many as "The Love Shepherd," Larry's life work is devoted to restoring what humans were born with and slowly conditioned to forget: the capacity to listen deeply, inquire openly, and meet one another without judgment, fear, or conclusion.
Larry's path is grounded in both human development and real-world execution. His formal studies span psychology, social anthropology, and statistics, complemented by decades of applied experience across creative, corporate, and relational systems. Early in his career, he built and led award-winning hospitality and event-production enterprises, designing experiences for audiences ranging from intimate gatherings to over 250,000 attendees. He later partnered with Tony Robbins and Robbins Research International, contributing to corporate training systems, product development, and distributor education.
As an entrepreneur, consultant, and executive producer, Larry has helped design and scale products, services, and organizations across industries including education, health, telecommunications, retail, and hospitality. His work has touched hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, spanning corporate leadership, families, individuals, and couples.
Two decades have passed since Larry encountered Genetic Energetics as a proprietary dating tool. Seeing far beyond its original use, he founded the Institute, gave the science its name, and expanded it into a relational framework that now serves all relationships—romantic, familial, professional, and communal. His work does not ask people to fix themselves or their partners. It invites them to release the conditioning that blocks their natural ability to connect.
MICHELE ROONEY
Michele Rooney is a co-author of Lasting and a celebrated physical therapist and developmental therapist with advanced practices in neurodiversity, working often with neurodiverse children and families. Her professional life is rooted in observation, pattern recognition, and the ability to perceive gifts and capacities beyond what is immediately visible, skills that naturally extend into how humans relate, communicate, and grow together.
Her expertise comes through the real-world relational intelligence required in clinical and family systems, where progress depends on safety, clarity, attunement, and consistent follow-through. She brings a grounded, embodied perspective that helps translate insight into lived experience, and she is deeply committed to relationships being approached as a transformative path carried with grace, joy, and a curious heart.
In the creation of Lasting, Michele was instrumental in shaping the format and structure so the material could land clearly and be used effectively. She also served as an astute editorial force, strengthening the organization and readability of the work so the book functions not only as a message, but as a practical tool couples can use. Michele is described as a Soul Dancer and Wave Rider, language that captures her unique way of moving with life while staying anchored in what is real.
PERSONAL ENERGETIC PROFILE (PEP)
Your Blueprint for Love, Prosperity, and Alignment
Your Personal Energetic Profile reveals how fewer than a dozen genetically coded energetic traits shape how you relate, communicate, attach, lead, love, and succeed. This is not personality typing. It's energetic orientation.
When you understand what you are energetically, you stop forcing change and start aligning with who you actually are.
Your Profile Reveals:
- •Why certain relational patterns keep repeating—even when intentions are good
- •How unresolved energetic wounds from the past continue to influence present decisions
- •Why projecting expectations onto the future undermines fulfillment
- •How misunderstanding your energetic nature creates unnecessary struggle in love and life
- •How to live fully in the present while magnetically attracting relationships that are nourishing, stable, and real
The fastest way to free yourself from the past is not to relive it.
It is to understand your energetic nature and stop working against it.
For many, this profile alone becomes a permanent reference point for self-trust and clarity.
WHY JOIN NOW — HOLIDAY PRE-LAUNCH
Movements are built by early participants.
This Holiday Pre-Launch is not a sale.
It is an invitation to be part of the founding phase of the Lasting Movement.
Help shape how the movement unfolds
Receive tools and access not offered publicly
Become carriers of a new relational paradigm
Immediate Access for All Participants
Regardless of whether you choose one book or two, you immediately receive:
- •The Lasting ebook — the movement's foundational language
- •Your Personal Energetic Profile — the blueprint for how you are wired to relate
These are not bonuses. They are orientation tools.
A MAJOR RELATIONSHIP UPGRADE
The relationship world is overrun by therapists, coaches, sex therapists and consultants called on to repair crippled and at-risk partnerships. This fix-it-when-it's-broken trend is similar to western medicine being called in to set a broken arm, prescribe drugs to patients, and bid farewell to the un-savable.
Lasting is more than a book. It is a movement to change this trend so that we are not predominately putting out fires and treating damaged or dying relationships. Instead, we are providing life changing insights for couples to step into committed relationships where each partner has their eyes wide open and aren't just enthusiastic and passionate. They are well informed of the potential of their partnership, committed, super grateful and enthusiastic for their lives ahead.
How do we know if a relationship will thrive and survive the test of time? This is the question every partner asks themselves when deciding to make a commitment to another. Couples that have already experienced the collapse of at least one relationship rarely escape concerns fueled by their past choices. It's natural for us to seek truth and certainty, even while surrendering to the allure and potential of a new partner. Where do we find such truth and gain such certainty?
We can never absolutely predict the future of any relationship. But we can gauge our commitment to find out.
Religious organizations have provided questions and tests for centuries. Some cultures have strict methods used to determine the best pairings. Many professional matchmakers claim to possess the 'looking-glass' that assures a match. And we all have friends and relatives with an abundance of opinions. Yet, nowhere in history has there been a tool that fully prepares us to clearly see, hear, feel and act consciously enough to make our own wisely informed decisions.
Until now!
In two transformational volumes, Lasting sets the foundation with 11 groundbreaking Illuminations to guide us on a journey of discovery free from false assumptions, judgment, conclusion, labelling, diversity, miss-guided chemistry, exclusion, and miss-communication. Through revealing examples, stories and exercises we rediscover our innate abilities to be truly curious, authentically expressed, courageously intimate, recognize our genetic energetic qualities, and the expansive and contagious joy of co-creation.
This is followed by a showcase of questions assembled around the "Flower of Life" to guide partners deep into discovery of the three entities of their relationship: The 'You', 'Me,' and 'We'. This becomes a precious reveal of the values, characteristics, beliefs, and lifestyles they individually and together follow. Whether these are a great match for committed partnership longevity or a sign of an un-partnered yet treasured friendship, readers have the heart-centered connection and gratitude to celebrate their insights and choices.
Most important, the stage is set to move into a lasting partnership with tools, understanding, and awareness which vastly reduces the assumed trends, questionable stages, painful resets, easy release from commitment and casual uncoupling previously accepted as the norm. It's time for a major relationship upgrade and Lasting delivers this with reverence, grace, discovery, and joy.
WHO THE BOOK IS FOR
The future will require better relationships. More conscious. More resilient. More aligned with who we are becoming. Lasting is the movement preparing people for that future—now. The book is one way in. The work is what continues. Whether you're navigating early challenges, mid-life transitions, or seeking to rekindle connection, this movement offers practical wisdom and profound insights for building relationships that last and evolve.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
PODCASTS
Building Lasting Relationships: A Conversation with Larry Michel and Michele Rooney
The Relationship Podcast
Listen NowThe PREPARE Framework: Preparing for Evolutionary Partnerships
Conscious Relationships with Larry & Michele
Watch NowHOLIDAY PRE-LAUNCH OPTIONS
Founding Participation Ends January 3, 2026
Movements are built by early participants. This Holiday Pre-Launch is not a sale. It is an invitation to be part of the founding phase of the Lasting Movement.
Wanting to magnetically attract your ideal partnerships
Includes:
- •1 ARC (Advance Reader Copy of Lasting Delivered Spring 2026) — $29
- •Downloadable ebook (immediate access) — $17
- •Personal Energetic Profile (immediate access) — $17
- •Live Q&A with Larry Michel (recorded if you can't make the live online event) — $47
$110 value — Holiday Pre-Launch $29
Couples committed to lasting relationships
Includes:
- •2 ARC (Advance Reader Copy of Lasting Delivered Spring 2026) — $58
- •2 Downloadable ebook (immediate access) — $34
- •1 Energetic Romance Report — $47
- •Live Q&A with Larry Michel — $47
- •Plus 3 Exclusive Live Events:
- •We've Been Studying Relationships Backwards — $97
- •Where True Intimacy Lives — $97
- •The Real Truth About Chemistry & the Honeymoon Phase — $97
$430 Value — Holiday Pre-Launch $59
For those wanting to share with clients, teams and friends
Includes:
- •10 ARC (Advance Reader Copy) of Lasting Delivered Spring 2026 — $290
- •10 Downloadable ebook (immediate access) — $170
- •10 Personal Energetic Profile — $170
- •Live Q&A with Larry Michel — $470
- •Plus 3 Exclusive Live Events:
- •We've Been Studying Relationships Backwards — $970
- •Where True Intimacy Lives — $970
- •The Real Truth About Chemistry & the Honeymoon Phase — $970
$3840 Value — Holiday Pre-Launch $299
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