Here's a cure for late-night doomscrolling that no app can offer: real conversation with real people.
You know the feeling. It's 11:30, the house is quiet, and we're still scrolling, waiting for something the feed never quite provides. Or we're at a party, deep in small talk, feeling lonelier than when we arrived.
We're not alone in feeling this way. In 2024, San Mateo County became the first county in the U.S. to declare loneliness a public health emergency. A year bofore, in 2023, the Surgeon General issued a report stating that loneliness was epidemic in America and as harmful to longevity as cigarette smoking. That same year, the Associated Press-National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that “Only 10% of all adults have a great deal of confidence in organized religion, a percentage that has been in steady decline in recent years, with confidence now at half of what it was in 2016.”
And here's the point: Everyone needs not just community and human connection; we need community and human connection that feeds our desire for purpose, meaning, beauty, and truth, celebration, awe, laughter, and sometimes, a shoulder to cry on. Not shall interraction. Deep community. Community that is alive with what matters, with all that is truly valuable to our happiness and wellbeing.
That's why Family Tree Meidation is offering Deep Community Groups.
Join a Deep Community Group
in the New Year!
For our Group on Tuesdays from 4 to 6 pm, January 5 to June 15 2027:
For our Group on Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6 pm, January 6 to June 16 2027:
Learn more about our Deep Community Groups HERE.
Each group meets once a week for two hours over 24 weeks. Together we explore the adventure of life: what matters most, what moves us, what we're struggling with and celebrating. The conversations are face-to-face, varied, often funny, sometimes profound, and structured to empower us to discover all the ways our connections are alive and nourishing to the heart, soul, and health of everyone of us.
No posturing, no networking. Just a place to belong.
I've come to believe the phone isn't really the problem. Our challenge is meeting our human need to live a meaning-rich life of connection with others in exploration of our full potential, in celebration of our adventures, and in solidarity through our trials. When we make space to enjoy deep community with each other, week after week, the pull of the screen gets weaker. Join us, and I bet you'll find yourself putting that cell phone to bed earlier and earlier.
You can register simply by clicking one of the registration buttons to the right! We look forward to having you join us.
Share this with others you know who are looking to cultivate a more vibrant ecology of deep community in their lives.
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Attorney-Mediator Hank Edson is responsible for the information provided in this video and caption, which is for educational purposes only under California law and does not create an attorney-client relationship or mediator-client relationship and does not constitute legal advice.
