Whether facing a positive set of circumstances, a negative set or a neutral set, clients come to LOOP workshops because they are either confused about what to do or just want a way through which to articulate their direction. This process allows people to spend two days focusing on themselves, using their skills on themselves for a change--doing something in their own best interest.

Most LOOP clients are women. In fact, exactly two-thirds (67%) have been women. Thus, only thirty-three percent (33%) of our clients have been men. Twenty-nine percent (29%) of workshop participants have been in a "couple" and 71% have been individuals. Of these "individuals", 73% were women and 27% were men. And it has happened more than once that a woman comes to a workshop as an individual and then brings her partner or husband in for a couple's workshop. The mean age of the women is 43 and of men 41, although women as young as 18 and as old as 78 (and men as young as 18 and as old as 60) have participated in LOOPs. Generally, a typical LOOP participant is a professional woman whose life has changed for some reason - and who is now trying to figure out what to do, where to go. She could be jobless (because she is facing job loss, has already lost her job or because she is about to retire) or she could have become less interested in her work. Her children (if she has any) might have become more independent, or might be facing a crisis. She might have just separated from a life partner - by her own choice or not, as the case may be.