Putting down our cellphones opens our hands and hearts to a whole new world.
When we put down our cellphones
there is no telling what we can
create together.
Mission
To empower individuals and communities to rediscover meaning-making by redefining our relationships with screens, social media, and AI.
Vision
To live in a world where individuals and communities:
Remember what it means to be human beyond our screened devices.
Reintegrate with our spiritual selves through deep meaning-making work.
Revalue each other, all creatures, and the planet.
Nowadays what we put in our minds is greatly determined by the content our thumbs scroll through and experience on screens each day. Think about all that content. Of course our thumbs our kranky! And it’s making us humans kranky too!
The Kranky Thumb Collective seeks to shift the priority and practice of screen, social media, and AI usage so that as humans we can experience a meaningful life without the continual influence of digital media and its harmful effects on our way of thinking and being in the world.
We are not saying don’t use your screened devices and AI. KTC is about redefining the relationships we have with our screens so they are no longer an appendage, and instead they become the communications tools they were intended to be. This requires remembering what it means to be human without an electronic device in our hand.
Our goal is to work with individuals, groups, communities, schools, and institutions to empower folks to tangibly redefine their relationships with screened devices for the sake of humanity and the natural world.
Let’s Rediscover What it Means
to Be Human Together!
The Kranky Thumb Collective, in partnership with The School of Global Citizenry, powered by Tumbuh Global; Sophia Seminary, and Rev. Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen is actively building the programs, methodologies, and curriculum individuals and communities can employ to 1) alleviate digital distress, 2)rediscover meaning-making and 3)redefine our relationships with screened devices, social media and AI. KTC programs are available in person, in groups on/offline, and at The School of Global Citizenry in a safe and trusted online space.
Now some of you may be asking, “If I need to connect online, isn’t that the same thing as being on my phone?” And we say, “Nope.” Because when you connect with the Kranky Thumb Collective, you are not madly scrolling through your phone. You are activating the meaning-making parts of your brain by engaging in activities with other folks who will encourage you and challenge you because they too want to make their thumbs happy. Happy Thumb, Happy Life!