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 8 more Camp Resets, almost 100 Pop Up Playgrounds, a world record hug and a Community Living Room.
Thank you for taking the time to visit us here and/or IRL at:
There are less than 50 tickets remaining for Camp Reset 2024!
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.
Current & Previous Collaborators
The Reset Residency is back!
The Reset Residency is a free six-month program for ten Toronto youth (ages 18-30) who want to improve their social health, which is the aspect of well-being that comes from connection and community.
Our intention with this program is to remove financial barriers to our current offerings, guided by our core belief that social connection and skills are under-utilized solutions to our collective challenges and a crucial antidote to the growing issues of loneliness and disconnection.
Apply by August 20 at 11:59 PM
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.
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.
Free Summer Series - SOLD OUT
Conflicts are an inevitable part of community life, often leading to many feelings, including isolation and loneliness.
Co-lead by Lorraine Lam and Adil Dhalla-Kim, "How to De-Escalate Conflict in Community,” is designed to empower individuals with some essential skills to effectively manage and de-escalate conflicts. This FREE event series is being hosted on multiple days at Reset’s Living Room this summer.
Strategic Imagining Sessions
As we approach YEAR 10 (!) in 2025, we're calling on our community's imagination again to inform our FIRST EVER strategic planning process that our Board is currently stewarding.
As part of their process, they are hosting a series of Strategic Imaginings, which are creative and contemplative odysseys co-facilitated by 2 of our current Board members. Sign up for our final one on August 20th.
“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.