Community adventures for curious souls
If you’re like us, an ember burns deep in your chest. It flickers, smolders & flutters in the fire of life. The ember needs oxygen, dry wood, less water. When we move our body in nature, away from screens with others, our shields drop & the ember gets what it needs.
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Lucas M.Ed, WFR, ultra-marathoner, ex-pro skier, expert coach & guide, led a non-profit organization and taught middle school science before joining forces with Marshall to birth Unplugged. Marshall is a coach, mindfulness teacher, former pro-cyclist & community leader with thirteen years experience in adventure travel and group facilitation. In the face of fast-paced, hyper-serious dopamine induced convenience culture, we are here to wave our freak flag for the connected-and-free, active-and-playful, sustainably-wild, intentional lifestyle.
“We’ve got Paleolithic brains, medieval institutions and god-like technologies” E.O. Wilson (1929)
Evolutionary mismatch is a primary reason for the loneliness epidemic, mental health crisis & dampened livelihood in America.
The average American spends 11 hrs 6 min per day processing digital media
25% of young adults contemplated suicide in 2020
2% of Americans choose to take the stairs when there’s an escalator.
The average American kid sits for more than 8 hours per day (1 hour increase since 2015)
>50% of Americans don’t recreate outdoors
From 2016 - 2020 adolescent’s with an anxiety or depression diagnosis increased by 28%
95% of adults over age 30 will never sprint again
Unplugged dances with mismatch to counteract the effects of convenience technologies & reconnect people with more active, aligned & playful lifestyles. The goal is lasting change.
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According to the longest running study on Adult Development conducted by Harvard over the past 75 years.
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Joe Biden’s surgeon general, Vivek Murphy declared the American epidemic of loneliness in 2023. And The Atlantic dubbed our moment The Anti-Social Century.
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It comes down to increasing organic collisions— the natural run-ins that form the relational fabric of wellbeing.
We’ve developed 10 easy-to-implement shifts to play around with… then watch your community transform.
Things like shifting your at-home hang-zone from the back to front yard, leaving the phone behind, and normalizing the “pop-by”.
Download the PDF to get your 10 actionable steps, guidance included, then see what happens.
SEE WHAT HAPPENS
Screens are poking at our volition.
Too pervasive to resist. We end the week distracted, dissatisfied… meh. If you’re like us, you’re afraid of living an unremarkable life, aware of the slippery slope towards mental health crisis.
Your best years aren’t all behind you.
An alternative path exists, one you’ve known since 1997. It’s stupidly-simple yet deeply profound. The path involves getting outside yourself with others to let nature do the work. Shake the mundane to break your holding patterns.