MOMMY ISSUES

You have a personality outside your family.

You’ve spent money on snacks you never ate.

Your own mother makes more sense than she used to.

Or less.

You have opinions nobody has asked about lately.

You’d like more people to text.

Mommy Issues is a structured social event for people who mother.

You’ll spend the evening in guided conversations with people you haven’t met yet. The questions change throughout the night. Some are funny. Some are harder than they look. Some will probably follow you home.

You may leave with a few new numbers. That is allowed.

You’ll rotate through conversations with different people over the course of the night.

We handle the timing.

You get to have the conversation.

There will be time to settle in before we start and stay afterward if you’re enjoying yourself.

Birth moms, adoptive moms, foster moms, stepmoms, grandmothers, queer parents, caregivers, and anyone who sees themselves in the work of mothering.

We’d rather fill the room with different people than charge everyone the same price.

Choose the ticket that honestly fits your life right now.

If you can spend a little more, someone else can spend a little less.

Everyone gets the same event. The ticket only changes what you pay.

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 spends an unusual amount of time thinking about one question:

How do strangers become less strange?

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.