MOMMY ISSUES

You have spent years being asked how the children are.

This night is for everything that answer leaves out.

Mommy Issues is for people who mother and still have opinions, appetites, friendships, grudges, unfinished thoughts, and a phone that could use a few more names in it.

You will talk to people you have not met yet.

Some questions will make you laugh. Some may ruin the car ride home in a useful way.

You decide what you answer.

What happens

Candis will lead a series of timed conversations.

You will not be stuck with one person all night.

You will not be asked to introduce yourself with your job, your child’s age, or a fun fact assembled under pressure.

There will be time before and after to get a drink, keep talking, or leave exactly when you meant to.

Who it is for

Anyone who sees themselves in mothering.

That includes people raising children now, people who have raised them, people doing the work without the title, and people still figuring out what the title has cost them.

Sliding scale

Choose the ticket that fits your life right now.

Paying more keeps a lower-priced ticket available.

Same room. Same questions. Different receipt.

No refunds :)

Very Human Social creates structured social events that make it easier to meet people and have conversations worth remembering.

Since 2019, we’ve been bringing strangers into the same room and giving them better things to talk about. Our partners have included University of Chicago, Soho House, Steppenwolf Theatre, Rebuild Foundation, Guild Row, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Some of our favorite events never go on Eventbrite. Through Do Good Human, we create custom experiences for organizations, workplaces, conferences, and private groups.

Facilitated by Candis Oakley

Candis is the founder of Very Human Social and Do Good Human.

She designs conversations that help strangers skip the usual script and get to something more interesting. Over the last several years, she's facilitated hundreds of events exploring friendship, dating, grief, trust, modern motherhood, and the social parts of being human that don't fit into small talk.

She'll guide the evening, keep things moving, and make sure you always know what's next.