Building community connections strengthens life satisfaction, say experts.
published in Nature magazine with data gathered from 10 annual Canadian Community Health Surveys shows that although between 2009 and 2018, general life satisfaction has increased in Canada, B.C. showed the slowest growth.
Martin said she had to become “extremely intentional” about building a community. She used BumbleBFF, a friend-finding app, and Instagram to identify people who did things she was interested in, such as hiking.Article contentIn 2021, Martin started an all-ages social group, We Should Be Friends . Two hundred strangers showed up at her first meet-up at Kitsilano beach last fall. With name tags, card games, spike ball, and volunteers to help make connections, any awkwardness fades fast.
Aknin said that when she first returned to a neighbourhood cafe after the pandemic shut down, a barista asked her how she was doing. It was a casual but welcome connection. “I probably gave her a 15-minute response, because we had been so deprived.”
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