Eleven Dunbar · Our vision
A third space for the real you.
Home is for rest, work is for output. The third space is where you get to be yourself with others. Ours is digital and physical, play and depth, all in one: a cozy town that lives every day, and a place on the map to meet, gather and go deeper. For co-play, co-work, co-build, co-grow.
The moonshot
Play or depth. Online or in person. We stopped choosing.
We are more connected than ever and lonelier than ever. The third spaces of the 20th century, the café, the pub, the sports club, the corner where you were known by name, are disappearing. Feeds replaced hanging out, and the real you rarely gets a space to show up.
A third space for the 21st century has two jobs the café never had. It has to be digital and physical, because your people live in other cities and a screen alone leaves you lonely. And it has to hold play and depth in the same room, because fun without meaning gets old, and growth without laughter gets heavy.
Eleven Dunbar is that third space. A town that never closes so your people are always within reach, and a home in nature where you meet them for real. Silly and deep with the same people. Back to analogue, to remember what it means to be human: to play, to create, to laugh, to grow, together.
A place for wonder, awe and curiosity, with people who lead with curiosity instead of fear.
Today
Our founding Elfs are shaping the foundation of Eleven Dunbar, and the first version of Elfen Town is live.
Next
Elfen Town opens in waves. Elfs bring their people first, then we open the gates to the waitlist.
Then
Elfen Home, the second door of the same third space: a home in nature where friendships made by the bonfire meet in the same room.
Us
Two friends, thousands of miles apart.
We live thousands of miles apart, an ocean between us. And still, most days, we feel closer than people we could reach in ten minutes.
That taught us something we keep coming back to: connection has very little to do with physical distance. It is psychic distance that matters. Psychic distance is the space between who you are and how much of yourself you can actually bring to another person, and the conversations that become possible when you do.
With each other, we can bring all of it. The Ghibli movies and The Midnight Gospel. A love for 80s and 90s pop culture, and the games. Improv comedy in front of no audience. Being completely silly together and laughing until it hurts.
And underneath all that lightness, the other thing we share: a love for understanding ourselves, and for living from a place of inner peace, joy and creativity. Supporting each other in growing, and remembering who we are underneath all the layers of protection.
For years those felt like two separate loves. Games on one side, personal growth on the other. Almost nobody puts them together. Gaming communities are built for fun only. Personal growth communities and coaches are often too serious. Play without depth, or depth without joy.
And we see the same split in where communities live. Digital spaces and physical spaces both exist, each on its own. So we dare to ask: what if we rebuild the third space as one complete ecosystem, digital and physical, play and depth, all in one?
That is what we are building together.
With the right people, an ocean feels like the next room.
Co-founder, 4x founder. Two decades of startup leadership, product and go-to-market. Handpan musician, gamer, and the person who makes ridiculous ideas better.
LinkedInCo-founder, 4x founder. Creative entrepreneur who spent years studying life: the inner world, play and consciousness. Host of retreats on creativity and emotional wellbeing.
LinkedInThree promises, one ecosystem
01 · Find your voice
Our voice
Levity Field
Finding your voice means letting go of who you are supposed to be, and getting curious about what is actually yours.
Levity Field is our media outlet: meditations, sounds, podcasts, videos and more, on creativity, play and the inner game. The place we are 111% us.
And the same voice, live: talks and team workshops that bring play and depth into rooms that forgot they could have both.
02 · Find your people
Our people
The Elfs
Everything starts with who is in the room. We call them Elfs: the 150 people inside, capped on purpose. Elf is German for eleven. Founders, builders and dreamers who lead with the heart, take their play seriously, and want a place to be fully themselves.
The Eleven Dunbar membership is a private community of 150, joined through an application and an interview process.
Annual membership includes Elfen Town, plus member-only tools, events and experiences and, one day, Elfen Home.
03 · Create your impossible
Our impossible
Elfen Town and Elfen Home
Everyone has an impossible. Ours is a third space with two doors: a digital town that never closes and a physical home you can drive to, built for the same people.
Elfen Town is the digital door: open around the clock, walk in as your own Elf, sit by the bonfire while you work, bump into your people.
Between visits the town keeps talking in D.O.N.U.T., our app: a journal you share with your Elf buddy, the forum, the book club, the events list and the member directory.
Elfen Home is the physical door: a home in nature to meet, gather and go deeper.
Most say you have to choose. We think choosing is the mistake. Play and depth, screen and soil.
A place to play, connect, and grow. Together.
An extra-ordinary week
- MondayCo-Work
You drop into the town with coffee, start the focus timer, and two Elfs are already working by the bonfire with lofi on the radio.
- TuesdayCo-Grow
You start a quest on creativity and get one small question to sit with all week.
- WednesdayCo-Build
You and another Elf playtest the card game you are building together on the side. Someone shares the piece they almost did not.
- ThursdayLive gathering
We play, make something, and show each other what we made.
- SaturdayCo-Play
A party heads into the dungeon to solve the next D.O.N.U.T. mystery. Nobody is working.
- A few times a yearElfen Home
We meet at Elfen Home for a workcation: laptops open on the porch by day, then a soundbath, breathwork, a music jam that runs late, and conspiracy night.
Some weeks you are in every day. Some weeks you are not, and the fire is still going when you come back.
Come find your third space.
Two ways in. Visit the town, or become one of the 150 Elfs at its heart.
Elfen Town
Beta · opening in waves
The cozy pixel town that never closes. Work by the bonfire, play in the arcade, bump into good people. We are letting people in in waves: Elfs bring their people first, then the waitlist. Put your name down.
Become an Elf
Eleven Dunbar membership, capped at 150
Elfs are the heart of Eleven Dunbar: 150 founders, builders and dreamers who become friends while making things side by side. Membership includes:
- Elfen Town, a cozy virtual town open around the clock
- D.O.N.U.T., our companion app for staying close and growing together
- A small pod of 3 to 5 who know what you are working on
- Live gatherings and in-person meet-ups
- Visiting artists and practitioners
- An Elf buddy and honest conversations by the fire
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Find your voice. Find your people. Create your impossible.