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🌀 Pause. Play. Connect – Lower your cortisol. Elevate your mood

A community for slowing down, tuning in, and connecting—in real time, with real people. The Grounding Loft is for anyone craving real human connection and a creative outlet in an increasingly digital world.

📍 Based in Norwood, MA (Greater Boston), we host a wide range of in-person gatherings centered around arts, touch, mindfulness, crafts, and embodied community connection—including:

🎨 Figure drawing nights
🎨 Arts & Crafts
📖 Book and journaling circles
🧘 Yoga, somatics & meditation pop-ups
🖐️ Conscious touch, massage and ethical bodywork gatherings
📷 Photography, analog creation, and artist meetups
☕ Mindful socials with tea, wine, or kombucha
🌙 Analog Nights

We are not built around one single passion— but rather an idea: that people crave in person connection: to gather in real time, to slow down, pause, and have a creative outlet.

💡 This group is an experiment.
Maybe it will work, hopefully it will flourish—
I'm also looking for motivated people that want to organize events and help me grow this community. I hope to meet you soon.

We welcome artists, therapists, teachers, feelers, introverts, extroverts, the creatively curious, and the socially shy. If you’ve been glued to a screen, feeling isolated, or missing deeper presence—you belong here.

This group is part of a broader effort to create genuine, grounded community in a world that often forgets how much we need connection. If you’re new here, feel free to check out our sibling groups too:

## 💡 Facilitator-Friendly: Share Your Work

The Grounding Loft isn’t just a space to attend events—it’s a platform for emerging facilitators to bring something new into the world.

Have a practice, passion, or idea you’d love to share? We make it easy—with no need to rent a studio or run your own Meetup.
You bring the vision.
We provide the space.
We co-promote under our umbrella.
We share the proceeds.

Whether it’s a one-time gathering or something more regular, we welcome aligned collaborators who want to contribute and grow.

## 🌀 Group Culture

This is a space for presence over opinion.
Believe it or not, slowing down, staying open, and spending time with people who aren’t exactly like you might just make you a better human.
We’re not here to fix the world—or let you try.
No soapboxes. No agendas.
Just shared time, shared passion for the thing, and a little grace.

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## 📵 A Word About Phones

Unless your event requires a device (music, camera, etc.), we invite you to unplug while you’re here.
Think of it as nervous system care: phones off, presence on.
We’ll offer occasional phone breaks for those who need to check in. But if you’re keeping it on just in case, it might not be the right night to join us. We’re building something rare—and it works better when you’re all in.

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## 🧾 Group Policies & Agreements

A FEW RULES TO KEEP US ORGANIZED AND SAFE:
PICTURE POLICY:
We require that you have a photo (for security reasons) that is a current picture of yourself on your Meetup profile that clearly shows your face (without sunglasses), and we need to know your real name. If your preference is to be a bit anonymous on Meetup, you may email it to us. Anyone without a photo and name will not be allowed to attend events.

RSVP POLICY:
PLEASE RSVP with integrity as space is limited & it's not fair to others or the venue to do a last minute cancellation. Last minute cancellations (meaning after the event closes - time which can be seen on the app if set for the event) count as NO SHOWS & it's 3 strikes you're out of the group. Emergencies/illness happen--we get it--and it only takes a few seconds to change your RSVP from ATTENDING to NOT ATTENDING. This is also YOUR responsibility. And it's common courtesy.

WAITLISTS:
You are responsible for managing your own RSVP when on a WAITLIST. IF you stay on a WAITLIST, you could move to the going list at any time. If you assume you will not get on the going list and make other plans, it is YOUR responsibility to update your RSVP to not going to avoid a no show or last minute cancellation. You have potentially taken a spot away from another member who would have loved to join the event.

CODE OF CONDUCT AND DISCLAIMER:
By participating in any event, activity, gathering, or initiative organized by The Grounding Loft (the “Club”), you acknowledge and agree to the following:

  1. Voluntary Participation: All participation in Club events is strictly voluntary. Attendees assume full responsibility for their actions and interactions, and participate at their own risk.
  2. No Duty of Care: The Club and its main organizer(s), officers, agents, and volunteers (collectively, the “Organizers”) do not owe a legal duty of care to attendees beyond that required by law. The Club is a voluntary, non-commercial social group and makes no warranties or guarantees about safety, fitness, or suitability of any event, venue, or participant.
  3. Limitation of Liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organizers shall not be liable for any injury, illness, loss, damage, liability, or expense of any kind (including but not limited to physical or emotional injury, property damage, theft, or death) arising out of or related to participation in any Club event or activity.
  4. Assumption of Risk: You understand that certain activities may carry inherent risks, and by participating, you knowingly and voluntarily assume all such risks, both known and unknown.
  5. Third-Party Venues and Services: The Club may host events at third-party locations or involve third-party services. The Club and Organizers do not control these third parties and are not responsible for their actions, omissions, or policies.
  6. Media Release: By attending events, you grant the Organizers permission to use photographs, video, and audio recordings taken during events for promotional purposes, unless you explicitly request otherwise in writing prior to the event.
  7. Code of Conduct: Participants are expected to behave respectfully and responsibly. The Organizers reserve the right to deny participation or remove individuals from events for disruptive, inappropriate, or dangerous behavior, at their sole discretion.
  8. Indemnification: You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Organizers from any claims, demands, damages, or expenses (including legal fees) arising from your actions during or related to participation in any Club activity.

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BY ATTENDING OR PARTICIPATING IN A GROUNDING LOFT EVENT, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS DISCLAIMER.

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