Welcome Message (read this first)

Welcome to the Buddhist Friendship Project. Started in 2020.

This is participatory, direct action to exercise our friendship muscles. It's like Planet Fitness for your emotional well being.
WARNING: If you are having an immediate crisis (for example, a panic attack, immense grief, or a major depressive episode), consider a 5-40 minute free and confidential chat with Crisis Text Line.

This is a group of people who get together to be friendly in a Buddhist way. Specifically, we practice being friendly with anyone and everyone who comes here. We do it with simple, short friendship games.  It's based on unconditional Goodwill. It doesn't matter what you look like, how much money you have, how you voted, or what you believe in. If you want to, you can just watch for months to see what it's all about.

It's also safer and easier than real life because it is all online. We use video, audio, and chat technologies. It is confidential and mostly anonymous.

The two key phrases are:
  1. I give you permission to feel what you feel.
  2. I see you and support you.
Sessions are fast. Live friendship games take under 10 minutes. You can do them on a lunch break, on the bus, or between meetings.

So, if these are things you want to try, there's no better way than to attend a session. (When we get bigger and build more momentum, we will put sample videos  online.)



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