Loneliness or Solitude

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." - Kurt Vonnegut

Overview

Living in the middle of a city with millions of people around us, there are times when we have never felt more lonely. Many of us live in denial or else fill our lives with distractions - mobile apps, gorging on the news cycle, television, series binging - so as to avoid encountering the void.

Loneliness has now been recognized as a significant health condition that affects hundreds of millions of people globally and drives significant mental issues. However, culturally, loneliness continues to be a taboo and as individuals, even we are reluctant to admit to ourselves that we are lonely. 

This takes us further away from ourselves and creates "shadow strangers" that look and feel like us but aren't really us. 

Loneliness Or Solitude: The Meetup

Join Slow School for a meetup on loneliness in the modern city and how the answer is not to run away into distractions but perhaps to jump headlong into it and emerge at the other side:  into meaningful solitude to begin with and then in a like-minded community. 

This meetup will be structured over two hours and will include conversations, exercises for reflection, and then certain contemplate design activities. 

We will be restricting this to 15 participants. Tea & cookies will be served.