NYC Friendsgiving: you belong here!

Belong Center 🤝 Sprout Society present… FRIENDSGIVING. 🦃

Join us for a potluck style party that intentionally fights loneliness + isolation - and centers community, new friendship + belonging. Whether you've been to a Belong Circle before or want to experience what Belong Center is like in your city for the first time, join us!

What to expect:

• plenty of food (bring a dish to share!)
• plenty of games
• plenty of connection + meaning-making
• a renewed sense of belonging - to yourself + to those around you!

43% of Americans don't have meaningful relationships in their lives - we're on a mission to change that and to find a whole lot of fun and connection along the way.

Let’s defeat social isolation, one [🥧] slice at a time. Spread the love and invite your circle of friends, but most importantly - be ready to expand it with new ones!

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MORE ABOUT BELONG CENTER 💛

We’re Belong Center, a 501c3 nonprofit, and we have an audacious mission: to end loneliness and isolation across the planet. Rather than looking at loneliness through the lens of pathology, we center joy, meaning, connection, and courageous optimism to help people break through the mythology that they’re alone and to find their people.

ps: there isn’t one silver bullet to ending loneliness. Some of Belong Center’s 2024-2025 initiatives include:

• Launching our Belong Circles program of in-person gatherings across the country. We’re currently launched in ~20 U.S. cities and will launch in all 50 states in 2025.
• Funding and launching an academic study on the impact of experiences of collective effervescence on loneliness and isolation
• Kicking off a Block Party challenge to encourage strong neighborly ties, the loss of which has a direct tie to a rise in loneliness and isolation
• Launching Belong Benches across major markets to create more public spaces for connection and belonging

Brought to you by the co-founders of the global early-morning dance movement and opener to Oprah Winfrey's 2020 stadium tour, you can see Belong Center's recent features in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and our website www.belongcenter.org to learn more.

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MORE ABOUT SPROUT SOCIETY 🌱

Sprout Society was created to make space: space to talk, space to make, space to do and space to be. Their work connects people one on-one, in peer groups and with experts as part of the larger mental health ecosystem. Their location in Bushwick is open to all and we're thrilled to be partnering with them to be our "home" for Belong Circles in NYC in the months to come.

RSVP BELOW (ONLY RSVP IF YOU CAN COMMIT TO COMING) FOR MAKE-NEW-FRIENDSGIVING NYC

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