Mark Groves Unplugged: The Future Is Human @ MUD\WTR :gather
​💠PLEASE NOTE - ALL EXPERIENCES MUST BE SECURED AT:
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​You know the feeling.
​You're in a room full of people, and everyone's looking down.
Conversations interrupted by pings, the reflexive reach for the pocket.
You leave with hundreds of "connections" and somehow feel more alone.
​We've built a world where we can reach anyone, anywhere, instantly. And yet true presence has become the scarcest resource we have.
​Unplugged: The Future Is Human is a 5-hour, fully offline experience designed to help you remember what real connection actually feels like in your body. Not as a concept. Not as content. As a lived, felt experience.
​This is a room where phones are off. Actually collected and put away...so that for once, every person in the space is fully, undividedly present.
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​WHAT TO EXPECT:
​You'll hear from Mark Groves and curated speakers on why our biology craves real connection, how technology has rewired our attention, and what it takes to build relationships that matter.
​You'll participate in connection exercises designed not to perform vulnerability, but to practice it. You'll have conversations that don't get interrupted mid-sentence by notifications.
​You'll discover what happens when everyone agrees to just be here now.
​There will be nourishing food and drinks. Sauna and cold plunge. Space to think. Space to breathe. No pressure to post about it, capture it, or turn it into content. Just the rare luxury of being fully offline, together.
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​In this experience, you will...
​Step fully offline for 5 hours and feel what presence does to your nervous system
​Learn from Mark Groves and guest speakers on relationships, attention, technology, and human connection
​Practice real conversation in a room where no one is half-listening to their phone
​Connect with creators, founders, and thoughtful humans navigating the same tension you are
​Regulate your nervous system through breathwork, sauna, cold plunge, and embodied practices
​Discover tools and approaches to reclaim your attention without going off-grid
​Leave with friends, not followers—real relationships, not just connections
​Walk out knowing how to shift your relationship with technology so it serves you, not the other way around
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​Offline VIP Long Table Dinner Experience
​For those who want to go deeper, the Offline VIP experience invites you into an intimate, sensory evening beginning with a 2-hour fireside session, followed by a curated mocktail connection happy hour, and a 3 course long table dinner experience with 50 people maximum, hosted by Mark and friends.
Long tables are where magic happens. Where strangers become allies. Where ideas spark movements. Where we remember we're not alone.
Every detail is intentional: the lighting, the textures, the way the table is set, the food you taste, the conversations you have. You'll share a meal designed to be felt, not just eaten. You'll ask questions that don't get asked at networking events. You'll be seen—not as a profile or brand, but as a whole, complex, interesting human.
By the end of the night, strangers won't feel like strangers anymore. You'll leave with real friends. The kind you actually text. The kind who remember your name and what you care about.
The bridge back to each other starts here. At a longer table.
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​VIP MASTERMIND: Full Day Experience
​For the 25 who want to go all the way in.
​If you want to start the start the day were the masks come off, with a group of legends before the rest of the attendees arrive, this is it.
Start the day with a reset ritual-sauna, cold plunge, and a MUD\WTR moment. Followed by a deep dive mastermind conversation — bold, embodied, unrecorded, where a small group gathers for something rare: a half-day mastermind designed not to inspire you and send you home, but to equip you with the clarity, tools, and community to actually expand and thrive in your real life.
​This isn't about motivation. It's about implementation. Boundaries that protect your aliveness. Creativity without burnout. Leadership that doesn't demand you perform a version of yourself that isn't true.
​Led by Mark Groves and joined by business leaders, founders, and creators actually in the trenches—people building companies with soul, leading teams with presence, navigating the same tension between growth and groundedness that you are—this experience is built on one simple truth:
​You can't do this alone.
​WHAT HAPPENS
​You'll start the day with a reset ritual, then gather where the conversation is deep and everyone in the room is willing to be honest about what's actually hard.
​Then we go deeper.
​The mastermind session explores:
​How to set boundaries that protect your energy without killing your ambition
​How to lead with full aliveness in a world that rewards numbing out
​How to build a sustainable relationship with technology, creativity, and your nervous system
​Real stories from founders navigating the same challenges—openly, without the highlight reel
​You'll hear from people who've built businesses, raised capital, created movements—not in spite of being human, but because they chose to stay human. They'll share what's working, what's not, and what they wish someone had told them sooner.
​Then you'll work. Together. On the real questions keeping you stuck.
​Because the answers you need are already in the room. They're in the collective wisdom of people who've walked a similar path, failed differently, and learned hard lessons.
In the evening you'll participate in a  intimate, sensory evening beginning with a 2-hour fireside session, followed by a curated mocktail connection happy hour, and a 3 course long table dinner experience with 50 people maximum, hosted by Mark and friends.
​WHY MASTERMINDS WORK
​You already know what you should do. What you're missing isn't more information. It's context, community, and accountability.
​People in high-trust communities perform better, recover faster, and sustain growth longer. Not because they're more talented. Because they're not doing it alone.
​WHO IS THIS FOR
​Founders, creators, and leaders who are:
​Building something that matters and refusing to burn out doing it
​Ready to lead with full aliveness—in business, relationships, and life
​Done with surface-level networking and ready for real, generative relationships
​Willing to be honest about what's hard and humble enough to learn from others
​WHAT YOU'LL LEAVE WITH
​Clarity on the next right move in your work and life
​Tools for boundaries, nervous system regulation, and staying present under pressure
​New friends and collaborators who remember your name and show up when it counts
​A community walking the same path, committed to each other's success
​Confidence that you don't have to choose between thriving and being human