About Along
A walking experience that gets you closer.
Along started with a simple observation about a friend, a walk, and a question about why some conversations happen outdoors that never happen anywhere else.
The research behind Along
Why walking works
when sitting doesn't?
Side by side, not face to face
No eye contact to manage, no pressure to perform. Conversations that feel hard across a table come easily when you’re heading the same way.
Movement lowers your guard
Walking eases tension and makes people more open. Research on walking conversations suggests they feel more honest than sitting ones.
Outdoors changes how you think
Time outside lifts your mood and loosens your thinking. A new setting makes you notice more, including each other.
Nothing here is accidental
The question sets, the timing and the structure were developed with relationship psychologists who specialise in communication and connection.
Outside. Talking. Closer.
A few hours in the open, with nothing to plan. Questions that do the hard part of the conversation for you. And somewhere along the way, you see each other a little differently.
Getting lost
together.
We built Along around the questions. But when couples tell us about their walk, they start somewhere else.
We thought people would talk about the questions.
The Along team
They talk about getting lost first.
See where couples
have walked.
New walks, new cities, and the questions people can't stop sending each other.