Camp Grounded

Digital-detox summer camp for adults in Mendocino County, California.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion	Jenny Odell	subject	Levi Felix and Brooke Dean’s adult digital detox camp had a phone-sealing check-in, no-clocks rules and activities like stilt-walking, and later sold corporate retreats.

How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (2019)

Source: How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion · How to Do Nothing · Readwise highlight

Compelled to share the mindfulness they had discovered abroad, they opened Camp Grounded, a digital detox summer camp for adults in Mendocino, California.

• Role: subject
• In the book: Levi Felix and Brooke Dean’s adult digital detox camp had a phone-sealing check-in, no-clocks rules and activities like stilt-walking, and later sold corporate retreats. Odell uses its commercialization to argue that retreat gets co-opted.
• Why it matters: The camp’s site is not given beyond Mendocino; a case study rather than a place she visits.