Urban sanctuaries for deliberate practice
A network of micro backyard sanctuaries where members practice manual skills in a digital-detox environment. Each Grove hosts 4 members who cultivate their skills together, creating urban oases of deliberate practice.
You step into a beautiful cedar pod nestled in an urban backyard, elevated among leaves, where your 3-member practice group is already mid-session — someone on a unicycle balancing while practicing brush strokes, another pruning a miniature juniper. Your phone goes in a lockbox at the door. For 90 minutes, you're not checking Slack or doomscrolling — you're fully present, learning calligraphy while standing on a balance board, surrounded by greenery and focused humans. You leave feeling the kind of calm you haven't felt since childhood.