Learning requires focused concentration, and digital distraction makes that much harder. Simply put: we can't learn if we can't pay attention. The higher students want to climb academically and professionally, the more they’ll need to harness the superpower of intentional attention.
In this era of constant screen time, we all need to learn to integrate technologies into our lives in a balanced way. I provide practical, behavioral interventions to help young learners, and those who support them, to reclaim their focus. Because it's so essential, I now weave Digital Wellbeing coaching into all private academic mentoring.
Offering workshops for schools
Digital Wellbeing for Students
This interactive workshop teaches students in grades 6-12 techniques to better understand their current digital lives and how to create strong habits of intentional attention that will serve them in all areas of their lives: at home, at school, and as young professionals
Topics include: how social media and gaming platforms are designed to keep them ‘hooked’, the ways their attention is harvested for profit, the dangers of doomscrolling, and the ways that digital distraction can derail them from fulfilling their goals. Drawing from the latest research on the science of attention, we’ll cover: tech hacks to help block distraction, the importance of taking non-digital micro-breaks, guarding against self-interruption, techniques to gain greater agency over their media habits and incorporate digital wellbeing into their daily routine. Students will learn practical, behavioral steps as well as mindset shifts around tech use, to help them reclaim the superpower of focused attention, to help them achieve their goals.
Digital Wellbeing for Families
Designed to address the real challenges families face integrating digital devices into daily life, and balancing time together with time online, this workshop offers parents practical tools to support their kids in developing healthy technology habits.
Topics include; social media and social comparison, the teen brain and digital habituation, the benefits of digital wellness practices in the areas of focus, emotional self-regulation and time management, the importance of modeling healthy digital behavior, phone-free bedrooms and non-digital family time.
Digital Wellbeing for Schools
Drawing from current research on neuroscience, technology design, and cognitive development, this workshop offers tools for to help students make the most of digital devices while avoiding some of the challenges posed by these technologies.
Topics include: algorithms and the dopamine reward loop, the attention economy, and the unique vulnerability of young brains to gaming and social media addiction. A practical approach for teachers to promoting intentional habits of attention and supporting students cultivate digital wellness, both in and out of the classroom.
Mindfulness for the Classroom
This workshop offers simple, time tested and age-appropriate practices to help students cultivate mindful attention to the present moment. Research backed techniques to facilitate calm and promote emotional and cognitive regulation to support learning and classroom management.
Students learn behavioral and cognitive skills to sharpen their focus and strengthen their ability to attend to the task at hand. These practices provide a strong foundation to support executive function skills such as task initiation, reducing distractions, self monitoring and emotional self regulation.
