What is your experience?

Welcome,

It seems to me that many organisations can be hard places in which to be. Instead of feeling like healthy, loving places, they become soulless and loveless places where the prevailing emotional undercurrent is one of fear. I am curious about why that is and what it might be like to be in an organisation which was loving? I wonder if such organisations exist, or whether people feel this only in certain circumstances? I wonder what conditions might be required to enable love to flourish rather than fear?

So....

Do you have any thoughts?
Is it too simple to talk about love and fear as polar opposites?
What might be a better way of describing the emotional culture or tone of an organisation?
Would you have a preference for a loving rather than fearful environment?
What is your experience of working environments?