you create belonging.
the platform for curated communities.
keepen is designed to create real connection in your community, for everyone who wants to be a part of something that matters.
Small groups
In real life, you can’t get to know people in a conversation of more than 4-6 people. Keepen uses the foundation of small groups to allow members to dive deeper.
The space in between
Live events are wonderful but they don’t happen every day. In between, get and give support, accountability, and time to get to know each other.
Fits into life
Not everyone has the time to devote to more intense connection. Attend events, share information, and commit more time when it works for you.
For everyone. Just not for anyone.
When people know they are with others who they can interact safely with, they can be themselves.
Real belonging comes with a shared purpose, a safe space, and other people who care enough to contribute and support one another, no matter what the topic or journey they’re on.
Curation doesn’t mean exclusive, it means including those who add value to the group and its mission.
intention matters.
Unlike other platforms, we have always designed keepen to be private and welcoming, not to serve the platform’s business interests or throw everyone into endless feeds or impersonal forums, which lead to bids for attention or the need to make ourselves look good.
It’s time to use the internet to foster real relationships.
real life is not a forum
“Generally speaking, humans each have one to two special friends, five intimate friends, 15 best friends, 50 good friends, 150 “just” friends and 500 acquaintances. Our relationships form a series of expanding circles of increasing size and decreasing intensity and quality of the relationship.”
ROBIN DUNBAR
Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford
“Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses”
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
“The small group is the unit of transformation and the container for the experience of belonging.”
PETER BLOCK
Community: The Structure of Belonging