Very Offline Club Fall 2025 Applications close tomorrow Sep 9th
Hi
How's the cooler weather treating you? As we start heading back indoors, I know that the pull of screens and doomscrolls looms larger for many of us.
If you're located in Toronto and you'd like to support your screen usage patterns through these darker months, the Fall 2025 Very Offline Club cohort may be for you. From Sep to Dec, we will join others to examine and address the impacts of this tech in a compassionate and non-shaming container. Connection is often what we're seeking when we scroll, and so connection is one of the ways through.
The 12 week program runs Wednesday evenings from Sep 17th to Dec 3rd.
Applications close tomorrow Sep 9th.
>>>>APPLY HERE<<<<
(Dates, times, and locations are in the link above.)
Some things you can expect from these 12 weeks:
- explore open-source and privacy-centered tools
- skill up on your digital security, privacy, and autonomy practices
- build knowledge on topics such as data capture, dark patterns, AI, and more
- develop analysis about the impacts of surveillance tech on social movements
- build greater self-awareness and self-compassion around your usage patterns
- receive acupuncture support as a tool for navigating screen addiction
- experience the joys, spontaneity, and uncertainties of offline relations
- connect with like-minded folks on a similar journey
The 12 week program consists of 4 distinct sessions that run 3 times each:
DEEP DIVE: This is an interactive lecture where we will cover the intersections of big tech social media platforms, surveillance capitalism, and radical leftist movements. (Hybrid virtual / in-person)
TECH-CARE: This is a co-working session with guidance for working through a digital autonomy topic. Bring your devices. (Hybrid virtual / in-person)
OFFLINE SOCIAL: This is an opportunity to put away devices and spend offline social time with other members of the Club. Introvert-friendly unstructured time with games, crafts, and more. (In-person)
ACUPUNCTURE: This is a group acupuncture circle using the NADA 5 point ear acupuncture protocol to support addictions, stress, trauma, and anxiety. (In-person)
Light refreshments served at Deep Dive, Tech-Care, and Offline Social sessions.
This project is particularly (but not exclusively) aimed at neurodivergent, traumatized, queer and trans, working-class, leftist, BIPOC folks. We are the ones most at risk of the harms of screen addiction, and whose power is most constrained and surveilled by the attention mining apps.
Membership is on a sliding scale with the higher end of the scale subsidizing the lower end of the scale. All membership levels have the same access to the Club.
>>>>APPLY HERE<<<<
Applications close tomorrow Sep 9th.
See you offline,
-G