Screen Free Social Club

Why screen free?

Because screens are exhausting in a way we’ve normalized. We’re constantly available, constantly performing, constantly consuming. Even our downtime has become content. We document our rest instead of actually resting.

And for people who already spend a significant amount of energy masking, navigating systems that weren’t built for them, or managing a nervous system that runs a little differently — that constant connectivity isn’t neutral. It costs something.

Taking the phones out of the equation creates a different kind of room. People actually look at each other. Conversations happen that wouldn’t happen otherwise. Something slows down.

This is a safe space. And I mean that.

I want to be really clear about something: this gathering was created with specific people in mind. BIPOC. LGBTQIA2S+ folks. Neurodivergent people. The ones who have been described as “socially awkward” and internalized it as a flaw instead of just a difference.

You are not too much here. You are not too loud, too quiet, too sensitive, or too anything. The room is built for you.

That doesn’t mean other people aren’t welcome — it means the culture of the space centers people who don’t always get to be centered. And we’re intentional about protecting that.

Come as you are. Seriously.

The next Screen Free Social Club is Friday, June 19th from 6–8pm at TSC. Refreshments are provided by Baked by Brenda. There’s no cost, no pressure, and no script.

Just real people, in a real room, actually present with each other.

Hosted by TSC Therapist Nicki Williams, LPC-Associate (supervised by Stephanie Waitt, LPC-S, CEDS).