Our Values

We create from a “play first” mindset. That means spontaneous dance parties at team meetings, costumes at the dinner table, and emojis in our emails.
We foster safe, inclusive, and equitable spaces that close access gaps across race, ability, socioeconomic status, gender, and wherever else we may find them. We aspire to enable choice.
We believe that co-creation and inviting others to share their gifts is key to creating a harmonious and leaderful community where people truly feel like they belong.
We are all connected; to our bodies, each other, mother earth, the cosmos… This interconnection demands that we extend compassion, respect, and care for one’s needs.
Community is at the core of what we do and who we are. It’s the pull of connection that helps us step into our highest selves.

About Us

In 2015, we created Camp Reset, the first digital detox camp in Canada.

In the beginning, we were seeking solutions to our own experiences with disconnection but we quickly learned that many of those around us felt isolated, lonely and burnt out. For the next 5 years, we prototyped new models for connection each year at Camp until the pandemic hit.

Due to the pandemic, we canceled Camp and through the uncertainty even drafted a closure letter! But we couldn’t shake the fact that the pandemic deepened the disconnection we initially set out to address and that we could apply our learnings towards a social recovery.

With the help of our community, we re-imagined what it would like for Reset to focus its energy on the deepening disconnection in urban environments.

This resulted in the creation of a pandemic-friendly participatory art experience called the Pop-up Playground in 2021. We hosted over 50 playgrounds in parks and public spaces that year and received an award from the City of Toronto (pictured) for the impact we had reconnecting communities.

We also began coaching, consulting and creating with organizations that year who were seeking to reconnect their teams.

In 2022, we were able to bring back Camp and developed One Big Hug, setting a world-record for the most diverse group hug in the world. We also opened the Reset Centre, a physical place to explore new models for community gathering. Our proudest achievement at the Centre happened in 2023, when we hosted A Love Letter to Little Jamaica, which was a youth-led experience designed to reconnect the local and displaced Jamaican community.

Camp is back for its 9th installment in 2024, we are working with more organizations and are launching our first ever membership campaign for a new idea called the Community Living Room. The Living Room is a place to practice community, like a gym but for emotional wellness, connection and belonging. We believe it is an antidote to our age of loneliness and invite you to join our all-or-nothing campaign happening between now and March 31st.