Welcome!
We are a social health non-profit that is playing with new and renewed ways for humans to access connection and community.
Our story starts in 2015 when we hosted one of the first digital detox experiences in the world and we have since co-created 9 more Camp Resets, over 100 Pop Up Playgrounds, a world record hug and a Community Living Room.
This is Reset:
Reset is a 9-year old nonprofit co-created by a community of people and building on the land, labour and leadership of many more.
This community includes 3 staff, 6 board folks, 8 co-founders, an 11 camp collective and around 500 community members who are primarily Canadian-based and most densely located in Toronto.
Our vision is to help being social health into everyday culture. Our relationships are essential to addressing our collective challenges and to creating more wholer lives for ourselves.
How we do this is by creating care-full IRL experiences where people can practice ways of relating with others such as play, rest and work.
“Social Health is the aspect of overall well-being that stems from connection and community. It is an emerging concept that is different from but connected to mental health and social determinants.
While physical health relates to the body and mental health relates to the mind, social health relates to relationships.”
Learn more about our Community Living Room in Little Jamaica, Toronto.
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.
Current & Previous Collaborators
Reset on TVO’s The Thread
We endeavour to co-create care-FULL experiences.
We are aware how challenging is to maintain connection and community given our own lived experiences with loneliness, disconnection and burnout. The contributing factors are systemic and in multitudes.
We’re also aware relational work is both full of rewards and risks and thus requires us to be care-FULL. These awarenesses have really led to a lot more questions than answers and to the following commitments to what to expect from a Reset experience:
Everything is optional.
Consent is celebrated.
Programming is not binary.
Accessibility is prioritized.
Introverts & ambiverts are considered.
Activities aim for connection (not competition).
Alcohol is not featured.
Our events and experiences provide opportunities for social connection and skill [re]building.
“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
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.