This is Part 1 of a two-part series.

Loneliness is our society’s biggest mental health challenge; it’s an epidemic. People across every age group describe feeling disconnected and alone, missing a sense of community and deep friendships.

Our reliance on technology, the fact that we spend our days interacting with screens and talking to bots, not people, working in isolation; the geographic scattering of families and the disappearance of community pillars; the overall shift in our values as a society, with “progress” having replaced contentment; all of it contributes to the situation in which we now find ourselves. People are connected around the clock, but don’t feel connected to each other. And maybe more frighteningly, we are losing the skill of even knowing how to connect, to form

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