Reset’s Living Room Lives!
Thank you to everyone who backed our campaign and for turning this dream into a reality.
Hello, we’re Reset.
We are an award-winning nonprofit that creates antidotes to our age of loneliness, disconnection and division.
Our story began in 2015 when we created Camp Reset, Canada's first digital detox camp and since then, we've hosted eight Camps in rural Ontario communities.
The pandemic prompted us to extend our efforts into urban areas, making our initiatives more accessible to a broader audience. Over the past few years, we've organized more than 50 Pop-Up Playgrounds in public spaces, achieved a world record for the most diverse group hug, composed a community love letter for Little Jamaica, and, most recently, established a Community Living Room—a dedicated space for social connection and social skill-building.
What We Do
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Reset's Living Room is a place to gather social connection and social skills. It's an antidote to our age of loneliness, disconnection and division. Think of it like a gym but for toning emotional wellness, connection and belonging.
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Camp Reset is our annual overnight camp for adults who are seeking deeper connection with themselves and others. No phones. No work talk.
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We coach, consult, and collaborate with organizations to facilitate reconnection among their teams, focusing on strategies for returning to the office, team building, and future-of-work initiatives.
The Reset Residency 📸. by The Fifographer
One Big Hug 📸 by Studio Spec
A Love Letter to Little Jamaica 📸. by The Fifographer
Camp Reset 2024 📸 by The Invisible Majority
One Big Hug 📸 by Studio Spec
Community Living Room 📸 by Anushay Sheikh
Community Living Room 📸 by Anushay Sheikh
Community Living Room 📸 by Anushay Sheikh
Camp Reset 2024 📸 by The Invisible Majority
Current & Previous Collaborators
“They let me bring in my own experience, my own full heart and energy into the space.”
Kiona Mercer-Tremblay - Brownhill Wellness
“Come here. Experiment. Experience it”.
Micha Edwards - Community Manager
Inside Stories: The People of Reset
INSIDE STORIES exists to foster connection in a world suffering and dying from disconnectivity. It seeks to examine the stories we tell and don’t tell and how that impacts us. Created by Lara Margaret Marjerrison, INSIDE STORIES: The People of Reset is published bi-weekly between now and Camp Reset 2024. The series will feature 20 personal stories of the People of Reset, exploring our relationship to place and how it shapes who we are and how we function in the world at large and, more specifically, in the context of Reset—pondering the through-line that brings such a wildly diverse group of individuals together in community in this most special place.
Impacts of Loneliness
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation - United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
“Given the significant health consequences of loneliness and isolation, we must prioritize building social connection the same way we have prioritized other critical public health issues such as tobacco, obesity, and substance use disorders. Together, we can build a country that’s healthier, more resilient, less lonely, and more connected.”
The Quiet Catastrophe Brewing in our Social Lives - The Ezra Klein Show
“There's been this effort to get us to take loneliness seriously so you get a lot of conversations around loneliness as a malady, as a public health problem, but it's also an outcome. It's a result of a structure. It is imposed in some ways, by a culture... so what would it mean to structure for community? ”
Our work is hosted on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and we recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis and the Inuit. We believe that collective joy requires justice. This means some of the things we have considered include collective liberation, safety, care, identities, Indigenous sovereignty and self determination, ecology, equity, power, inclusion, physical accessibility, financial accessibility, ancestry, climate, introversion, extraversion, trauma, a lot of the -isms and some parts of the neurodivergent spectrum. We are not experts in any of these realms and are always open to learning how we can better cultivate a space and culture that fosters a sense of radical welcome and belonging.