let's be buddies

what is buddi bench™?

buddi bench™ focuses on creative responses to human distress. Our core premise is that the principle antidote to the majority of challenges facing us as individuals & at the level of society, is connection. Isolation, whether physical or a-state-of-mind, generally leads to poor emotional wellbeing. It is vital that humans regularly spend time with other kind humans if we are to stay physically & emotionally well. Humans are pack animals & need one another.

buddi bench™ encourages connections both offline & online:

offline

The key offering of buddi bench™ is to provide beautifully made benches in local parks all over the UK. The idea is that by sitting on a clearly marked buddi bench™ it will encourage any adult walking past, that is aware of the buddi bench™ concept, to join you and have a chat for around 10 minutes. To discuss anything you like.

buddi bench™ isn’t only a provision for the lonely, troubled & isolated. buddi bench™ welcomes everyone, whoever & however you are. Who wouldn’t benefit from the odd friendly chat with a kind stranger?

online

blogs, vlogs, podcasts, art & more…

We use online ways of connecting with you to further the awareness, reach & impact of buddi bench™. We hope that Seth will feel better for having shared some ideas with you & you will feel a little chirpier from taking a slightly different look at the world. A win, win.

As the founder & head honcho of buddi bench™ Seth will email you one blog post per week, to arrive in your inbox before 9am every Monday. Seth’s musings will be accompanied by a piece of art created via a cool piece of artificial intelligence software. Seth hopes his missives & accompanying art will inspire you to start the week well.

The unifying thread throughout our content & creations is a laser-like focus on ideas & actions that help humans thrive. Creating a laundry-list of all that is wrong in our world is too easy & not necessarily part of the solution.

By focusing on creative, philosophical & practical ways to connect with each other we hope to reduce unnecessary emotional distress & to help people to realise their true exponential potential.

full details here: buddibench.org

check out some of Seth’s art (with a little help from AI): https://opensea.io/collection/buddibench

what is buddi bench™ trying to achieve?

We make no apologies for being ambitious.

We hope to:

- encourage chats between people that would not ordinarily meet

- replace feelings of loneliness with a sense of connection

- replace our ideas of ‘stranger danger’ with the concept that a stranger is simply someone we haven’t yet met.

- remind us that whatever our differences we all share a common humanity. No ‘us & them’, only ‘us’

- disseminate media, online & offline, seeking to bring out the best in us all

- create a more friendly, understanding & compassionate society

what’s the catch?

There isn’t one.

buddi bench™ hopes that as we get to know each other, you’ll want to support this project. You’ll want to consume our online material, tell your friends about us & also want to help us place a buddi bench™ in your local park.

To buy a bench, position it, market it & maintain it costs approximately £1k.

Our goal is to raise enough money to place 100 buddi benches™ across the UK by the end of 2023. This means we need to raise £100, 000 - fast.

So every £ you give helps us to help bring more people together & reduce human suffering. You can sign-up at any time to give a regular monthly donation or use our online ‘tip jar’ to keep the show on the road.

Yes, we are trying to raise funds & do encourage you to support us by signing up for a monthly subscription. But just as valuable is word-of-mouth. The only way buddi bench™will succeed is if lots of people know about us. So if you like us please tell your friends, family & colleagues about us. If we disappoint in any way, please tell Seth & we’ll do our best to continually improve. Even if the buddi bench™ concept doesn’t appeal to you, it is likely that someone you know might appreciate a friendly chat with a kind stranger.

Look out for FAQs in the next post.

chat | connect | care

buddi bench™ looks forward to becoming buddies with you.