
Cale reveals loneliness and a longing for companionship amid a life transition, detailing moving to Vancouver to pursue acting and the winter of unemployment and anxiety that followed.
Share your unique perspective and gifts to offer as a friend, while developing listening, flexible scheduling, and humility to strengthen relationships.
Identify your friendship gaps with a progress tracker, comparing current versus desired quantity and frequency in one-on-one and group friendships, and track changes by the end of bootcamp.
Boost confidence and self-esteem by improving conversation skills and listening, staying present, initiating regular hangouts, and reminding yourself you make friends feel valued with reliability and kindness.
Develop resilience and inner strength to bounce back from friendship challenges, track your emotions to understand triggers, and choose a hiking mindset over rock climbing for steady, authentic connections.
Improve health and fitness to boost energy for social life and maintain friendships through the audition process, strengthening self-esteem and self-love by treating your body well.
Explore how solitude helps you align with values and passions and attract like-minded friends. Learn how solitude reduces stress, sharpens decisions, deepens your world connection, and sparks new ideas.
Start thinking like an organizer to take control of your social life by initiating movie nights and building a chosen family with friends, guided by the organizer's pledge.
Discover how to find love through your network of friends by growing a large circle, organizing introductions, and valuing platonic love.
Sophie explores how friendships shape our sense of self, sharing life, and how breakups trigger grief and loss.
Organize events to bring friends together around shared interests, letting others discover new passions and build connections. Embrace nervous energy to craft thoughtful, enjoyable experiences.
John shares practical advice on organizing events, from overplanning to ensure enough participants to involving others for ownership, and learning from others' mistakes to improve success.
Learn to be playful in conversation by co-creating with others, using improvisation and mindful humor, reading cues, and balancing voices to connect with friends and new people.
Discover how identifying your values and passions guides personal growth and strengthens friendships, using self-awareness exercises, differences between values and passions, and practical strategies to align life with what matters.
Explore barriers to maintaining friendships, from initiating one-on-one and group activities, managing busy schedules and budgets, to communicating needs and ending relationships gracefully.
Friendship Bootcamp is for people who are serious about upgrading their social lives.
The comprehensive course is based on five years of interviews with psychologists and counsellors, and it includes many aspects not included in other friendship courses including peer support via video journals.
If you're looking for maximum inspiration and motivation to have the kinds of friendships you've always wanted, then this is the bootcamp for you. Unlike other courses, Friendship Bootcamp is also a TV series currently in development, and we've added clips of the TV series to provide extra inspiration and motivation.
Sections include:
1. Getting Inspired and Motivated
2. Preparing to Attend Events
3. Finding Potential Friends in Your City
4. Burnout, Loneliness and Depression
5. Maximizing Your Potential
6. Creating Your Chosen Family
7. When Friendships End
8. Assessing Your Results
9. Additional Content: Organizer Advice
10. Additional Content: Interviews with Psychologists and Counsellors
The founder of Friendship Bootcamp is Glen Brauer, who has helped to initiate over 1,500 events in 11 countries as the founder of the Meaningful Discussions Project. Glen has also organized private events with friends for 20 years, and he brings all of his skills and wisdom to this course.