Periphery
Boost your state of wonder
What is Periphery?
Periphery is a month-long, immersive, multi-sensory program that encourages connectivity and awareness across the body, mind, local communities, nature, and technology. In a world where balance can feel elusive, Periphery offers accessible experiences to help you regain equilibrium.
This program doesn’t just address compulsive technology use—it introduces creative, engaging, and practical tools to support positive transformation. Periphery isn’t a traditional guided experience; most of the work comes from you. It’s a partnership that helps create more mindful interactions with both the digital and real-world landscapes.
What can I expect?
Engaging conversations, real mail, leisurely strolls, meaningful interactions with neighbors, sunrises and/or sunsets, dirty boots, planetary discoveries, imagination, spontaneous dance parties, unhurried meals, olfactory experiments, putting pen to paper, a newfound appreciation for long-form music, expanded connections with the non-human world, deeper breathing, guilt-free moments of idleness, short naps, a revitalized sense of self, reduced anxiety, deeper friendships, shamelessness, happier children, intrigued partners, healthier pets, thriving plants, and more.
Who will I be working with?
Hi! I’m Felicity Fenton (she/they)—a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and digital wellness advocate on a mission to help cultivate balance, connection, and awareness across some of modern life's body/mind/spirit challenges.
For over two decades, I’ve been a dedicated practitioner of Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, reiki, yoga, improvisational dance, music, writing, and art. I have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with an emphasis on Art as Social/Relational Practice from Goddard College. I’m working towards my MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Prescott College with a focus on experiential art, nature, and somatic therapies.
Years ago, graduate studies led me to a farm in Los Lagos, Chile, where I disconnected from technology for a couple of months and tuned into my body and the landscape. The pause away from the noise and busyness I had grown so accustomed to impacted my lifestyle and artistic practice and inspired the seeds of this program.
My interaction with technology is an ongoing saga, one I question whenever I reach for my phone or open my laptop. Throughout the week, you'll often find me working (with eye bags and a frowny face) on my laptop and phone. I navigate through browser windows, blinking cursors, and respond to a flood of emails and emojified texts on repeat.
The internet is woven into my livelihood, research, art, writing, and community. I'm far from a Luddite, but I've been grappling with the highs and lows of online activity since I created my first email address.
A few years ago, Future Tense Books published my pocket-sized book, 'User Not Found,' a lyric essay chronicling my attempts to break free from the internet's pesky tendrils. I delved a little into privacy issues, the ethical concerns of big tech, the attention economy, the environmental impact of data storage, social media trolls, and the issue of conflict minerals. But mostly, I explored my struggles with compulsive scrolling and the diminishing sense of real connectivity I felt I was experiencing with my body, art practice, community, and nature.
Technology isn’t all grim. Without it, we wouldn't be able to tune into lives outside our immediate physical communities or explore the vast array of creative, educational, radical, and sustainable resources it offers.
I created Periphery to help attain a technology/life balance and equip humans of all ages with tools to navigate the internet without being consumed by it.
Much of the 'work' in the Periphery program is self-directed, engaging you to enrich relationships with yourself and those you connect with offline. My role is to provide foundational tools—curated packages featuring offline activities and creative prompts, invitations to sensory workshops, two, hour-long, one-on-one phone sessions, and numerous hurrahs (complete with pom-poms).
How can I sign up?
If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it does to me, let's connect for a free thirty-minute introduction call. Together, we can assess whether Periphery is the right fit for you.