He knew the presence he felt on the island, and the lessons that came with truly appreciating each moment in life, not just documenting them on Facebook, was something he needed to bring back to his friends. He ended up spending a year in Cambodia with his partner Brooke Dean, living and working at a guest house on a remote island without a cell phone or internet. The experience was a wake up call for Levi to take a break from the stresses of the digital world. While working as the chief activism officer for Causecast, a cause-based marketing company in Los Angeles in 2008, Levi suffered an esophageal tear from exhaustion and had to interrupt a work trip to South by Southwest to go the hospital. At Camp Grounded, we don’t use digital technology, we tell time in inches instead of minutes, we don’t talk about age, we don’t talk about work, we don’t use drugs or alcohol, and we call people by nicknames instead of their real names.Ĭamp Grounded’s mission to bring adults into nature to “disconnect to reconnect” was inspired by Levi’s own addiction to technology, which nearly drove him to burnout.
Since 2013, Camp Grounded has happened fifteen times, serving more than 3,000 people in the beautiful woods of northern California, North Carolina, New York, and Texas. Levi was the co-founder and director of Camp Grounded, a tech-free summer camp for adults. My dear friend Levi Felix, who passed away this week at the age of 32, after a year-long struggle with brain cancer, forever changed the lives of thousands of people by creating a playful, transformational, and revolutionary community dedicated to finding balance in the digital age. Some people spend their time living, some people spend their time creating the world they actually want to live in. Levi getting melon-headed at Camp Grounded.
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