Millions of Americans wish they had more friends and closer friendships, but they often overlook a treasure trove of potential friends — all the people who already live near them on their block or in their neighborhood.

Come find out why it’s actually easier than you think to make friends, fast, right in your immediate neighborhood. You’ll leave inspired and motivated to build community right where you are. Come fertilize your imagination and bloom in the pot where you’re planted.

Presented by Kat Vellos, author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships, in partnership with the Cary Memorial Library. Free!

Feel too busy for friendship? If you crave a calmer, more balanced life gives you a blend of productivity, connection, and peace, Unbusy Camp is for you. This two-week, on-demand, audio-only program will help you put some breathing room back into your life.

✔️ You get inspiring wisdom from some of the world’s best teachers on the themes of: slowing down, intentional living, unbusyness as a life practice, and reclaiming your time and attention.

✔️ You get short, easy, snackable reflection practices that fit into your life and help you reprogram your relationship with time.

✔️ On-demand, low-energy, soothing audio-only experience

If you’re one of the 824,237 adults who deprioritize friendship because you think you’re too busy for it, this is the reset you need.

Tuition: $75
Starts: Any time you’re ready

Platonic Action Lab (aka PAL) will help you get HYPERLOCAL and HYPERSPECIFIC to cultivate friendships and build community. This is my biggest, best, and most bodacious program yet!

✅ Get crystal clear about who you want to invite into your life, and create an action plan that you’ll start implementing right away.

🤗 Connect with your local community more consciously, so you feel a deeper sense of place and have more friends nearby.

💖 Build your confidence as someone who’s capable of cultivating connection in natural, non-awkward way.

The actions you take in PAL will help you start making friends — OR deepen your existing friendships. You’ll make progress during the program and you’ll gain the skills to do this again any time you need to, for the rest of your life.

Tuition: $399

Learn more about Platonic Action Lab