Lev Felix is the Co-Founder of The Digital Detox.

The Digital Detox is a tech-free personal wellness retreat where attendees give up their smart-phones and gadgets, unplugging in exchange for serenity and a piece of mind. His mission at The Digital Detox is to provide people with the opportunity and permission to put aside their digital arm and ”re-format” their own personal hard-drives… so they can return to their job and family feeling rejuvenated and relaxed, with a new found perspective, in order to live a more balanced life online and off.

Felix is also Creative Innovator at Global Natives, a global consultancy that works with global causes, creatives & companies to harness the power of the public, innovate, & disrupt via innovative grassroots engagement, holistic digital strategy, and business development.

Felix, a graduate of Psychology and Ethnomusicolgy from the University of California Santa Barbara, has always been extremely active in his local community finding creative and entertaining ways to get people involved. After founding The UCSB Darfur Freedom Festival, Felix organized a coalition of over 40 non-profit organizations in a cause based celebration known as Chilla Vista: a full on community-wide sustainable music, art, film, food, and interactive festival that brought over 2,500 students, faculty, and family together to enjoy healthy living, volunteerism, and community involvement.

After managing grants both domestic and internationally at The Forest Foundation, Felix drove across the country in a green veggie powered school bus spreading the word about sustainability. Once the AP Wire picked up the story, the word of an "eco-friendly circus of activists" was profiled in such publications as Pollstar Magazine, AOL News, MSN Stop Global Warming, and even the China Post. During the summer of '07, with experience greening Bonnaroo Music Festival, Levi helped divert 60%+ waste from Rock The Bells San Francisco, using fun interactive volunteerism to educate the concert goers to recycle, compost, and reduce emissions.

After producing several short video pods, writing for Green Living Online, and consulting for companies like Reel Green Media, Levi Felix has been working as the Vice President at CAUSECAST.ORG overseeing digital strategy, creative campaign development and media production fusing together social media, content and cause marketing. Felix believes deeply in the power of story, getting dirty and building grassroots movements from the bottom up, working strongly to build coalitions of change, develop campaigns that directly engage a collective generation, and instill the importance that everyone has the power to make a difference.

BUT then he almost died when my esophagus decided to bleed internally for three days while preparing a big campaign for SXSW (they say it was stress related).

In 2009 after the near death experience, Levi packed his bags for the Middle East and the world with a new project called This Is The World We Live In.

With his partner, Brooke Dean, they explored international activism and met those leading their communities into social change, healing and development. Their objective: to seek communities, connect with individuals, volunteer, learn and grow. He left the tech world to wander the analog - seeking balance, studying yoga and meditation, working on farms, living on a secluded island in Cambodia (with only rain water, solar power and 9 other people), building websites for nonprofits, and consulting tech companies from oversees... getting his roots together again and re-evaluating what it means to live in one of the most interesting times on the planet: trying to discover how to find balance in the digital age.

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