Reset’s Living Room is a simple solution to our major problem of loneliness. It’s like a gym for your social health.

What is Social health ?

While physical health relates to the body and mental health relates to the mind, social health is the aspect of our wellbeing that stems from connection and community. It speaks to our ability to build and maintain fulfilling relationships, enjoy a sense of belonging and engage in healthy interactions with others. This is important because our relationships determine both how well we live and how long we live.

Through our available services, private online community, programs and events, Reset’s Living Room provides opportunities to build social connection and social skills, leading to increased individual and collective social health.

From the Team

“The first thing you notice upon arriving is an embracing warmth. Not only from the bright colours and charming setup, but also from the folks that will greet you at the door and offer a hug to welcome you. You take off your shoes, grab a pair of complimentary slippers, and help yourself to a cozy seat on the plush red couches, or make a cup of tea in the communal kitchen. You see stacks of boardgames, books and craft supplies residing in nooks and crannies. The room smells of popcorn - freshly popped, and you can feel your mouth water. You hear some laughter and tapping keys over the ever changing playlists. You are invited to join in conversation if you wish to, but you can hear the sauna calling your name and choose to enjoy that instead.”

- Gen Melito, Managing Director

Amanda Kwok

“I love coworking from the Reset Centre - it has all the comforts of working from home (e.g., comfy spots to work from, coffee + tea, clean bathrooms, places to nap) with the added bonus of a super friendly and welcoming community.”

Jaymie Rosen

“The best way I can describe Reset is like going to a friend's house. It's cozy, warm, and welcoming.”

Meet the Community

  • Joshua Fernandes

    Community Care Convenor

  • Melanie Ferrara

    Community Member and Designer

  • Micha Edwards

    Community Manager & Artist

  • Kiona Mercer-Tremblay

    Meditation Teacher

  • Mary Grace

    Camp Collective Director

  • Antoni Seloterio

    DJ

  • Genevieve Melito

    Managing Director

  • Jennifer Ocquidant

    Community Member and Translator

  • Rachel Rainbow

    Living Room Volunteer

  • dil

    Executive Director

Our Weekly Programming

Good Work

Good Work 
Tuesday - Friday
10am - 6pm 

The intention of Good Work is coworking that considers your social health so that you hopefully feel energized at the end of your workday. Unlimited Wifi, Popcorn, Coffee and Tea are provided and there’s an art sauna. Good Work includes a Reset (previously called “Recess”) at 3pm, which is an optional 30 minute collective break where we walk, dance or do whatever one wants. Good Work is hosted by our Reset Living Room Team.

Care Practice

Care Practice 
Tuesday
6pm - 8pm 

The intention of Care Practice is to experience and explore collective healing through a buffet of optional activities such as sauna, solitude and care-full conversations. Care Practice is led by Micha Edwards, Reset’s Community Manager.

Presence Practice

Presence Practice 
Wednesday 6pm - 8pm | Sunday 11am - 1pm


The intention of Presence Practice is to meditate and explore slowness. You can opt-into collective processing and digital detoxing. Space for solitude, journaling, reading and reflecting is available in the forest and you can opt-into a live Meditation, led by Community Member Kiona Mercer-Tremblay.

Friendship Practice

Friendship Practice
On rotating Thursdays- All Expressions of Gender | Male-Identifying Only
6pm - 8pm 
The intention of Friendship Practice is to explore the emerging field of social health through curated conversations about friendship and optional activities centered around becoming a better friend.

Our offering for Male-Identifying folks only is to create a more specific and focused container for adult men who are the most affected in the friendship recession. Friendship Practice is led by Adil Dhalla-Kim, Reset’s Co-Founder.

Play Practice

Play Practice
Fridays 
3pm - 4pm 

The intention of Play Practice is to relearn how to play and unlearn our resistance to it. It includes options to participate in authentic relating games, improv, board games or you can choose your own play. Play Practice is co-led by Lilian Motta and the Reset Living Room team.

Hours & Location

Goodwork:
Tuesday - Friday
10am-6pm

Evening Programming:
Tuesday- Thursday
6pm-8pm

634 Vaughan Road

How to get here!

Biking:

If bringing your own bike, there are a couple of places you can lock it in front of our Living Room. We are hoping to add our own bike post in future to increase ease.

If utilizing Toronto’s Bike Share we have a station located directly outside our Living Room (see map).

TTC:

We are a short walk from the 63 Ossington and 90 Vaughan bus stops (see map).

Driving:

There is free parking until 12am each day on the side streets around the Living Room including Bansley Ave, Onslow Cresc, Eleanor Ave and Amherst Ave.

A note about lineage....

The idea of a Community Living Room is not ours and we are proudly building from the love, labour and leadership of many people.

We initially learned about the concept of a Community Living Room from similar projects led by the Centre for Social Innovation Regent Park, the Daniels Corporation and !Kona from Black Chat Vancouver.

It is also important that we acknowledge the broader movement of those exploring "third spaces" designed to address our increasing disconnection.

We’ve drawn inspiration from various bodies of work and wisdom. Those most impactful are by adrienne maree brown, bell hooks, Vivek Murthy, Priya Parker, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jane Jacobs, Ted Lasso, Robert D. Putnam, Johann Hari, Gabor Maté, Valerie Kaur, Arundhati Roy, Mr. Rogers, Tricia Hersey, Brené Brown, Esther Perel and ALOK.

Additionally, this idea has been significantly influenced and inspired by the Reset Community, the Little Jamaica Community, the City of Toronto's Cultural District Program Plan led by Jay Pitter Placemaking and the Toronto Foundation’s Vital Signs Report.

Finally, we would like to acknowledge our property partners at 42 Communities, the City of Toronto's Cultural Hotspot program and the Government of Canada’s Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario’s Main Street Innovation program for their respective financial contributions to our prototypes that preceded and deeply informed our Living Room.