go reboot yourself: get a grip on your tech

Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman Co-‐ Authors, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout

Photo Source: Eric Pickersgill

SXSW 2016 Workshop

Go Reboot Yourself: Get a Grip on Your Tech

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Aliza

The time I started dropping things…

Beth Kanter: Trainer, Author, Speaker and Nonprofit Thought Leader

@kanter www.bethkanter.org

Aliza Sherman: Web Pioneer, Author, Speaker, Tech Wellness Advocate

Think, Write, Share

•  What is your burning quesEon about technology wellness?

•  What do you want to learn today?

• Greater awareness of tech wellness

•  IdenEfy one technology wellness habit to build and pracEce aIer SXSW

Topics OUTCOMES

• InteracEve • Try out techniques • Sacred Space

FRAMING

Why Get A Grip on Your Tech Assessment: Is your tech use healthy or toxic? Your Tech Wellness Roadmap ReflecEon, Q/A, Raffle

Agenda

Resource Materials: hTp://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/SXSW-‐2016

Sacred Space

You Can Draw!

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You Can Draw!

Think and Draw

Think about a Eme when your technology use made you feel stressed or overwhelmed or distracted or even sick? What was the situaEon? What does it look like? Draw It!

The Bigger Picture: The Problem

And it has changed our brains.

Our technology has changed our informaEon consumpEon habits

We have no downEme.

52% of smartphone owners check their phones a few Emes an hour or more.

We are losing our ability to focus and remember.

“Google Effect on Memory” -‐-‐ Daniel Wegner, a professor of psychology at Harvard University

What is the average human aTenEon span

online?

AMenNon Spans Online …

Source: NaEonal Center for Biotechnology InformaEon, US NaEonal Library of Medicine Flickr photo: Josullivan59

AMenNon Span StaNsNcs Data

The average human aTenEon span in 2000. 12 seconds

The average human aTenEon span in 2013. 8 seconds

9 seconds

We are drowning in a sea of messaging. And some of us have SMAD.* *Social Media Anxiety Disorder -‐-‐ Neil Mehta, MD

•  Always at your fingerEps. •  Always scrolling news feed. •  Always manipulated by filters. •  The adrenaline rush of “Like.”

Syndrome

Mindless ConsumpEon

*Brandon T. McDaniel, doctoral candidate in human development and family studies at Penn State

“Technoference*”

Email Apnea

Are you holding your breath when you check email? You may have “Email Apnea*.”

*coined by writer Linda Stone

Body effects

Text Neck*, Eye Strain**, Disturbed Sleep*** "

*Kenneth K. Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery & RehabilitaEon Medicine **American Optometric Association: Computer Vision Syndrome or Digital Eye Strain

***Studies out of Harvard and University of Toronto

Distracted Walking

The Perils of DistracNon in the Workplace

“Technoference”

We are not saying ditch your mobile phone or never use the Internet again We are saying Tech Wellness skills are essenEal 21st century survival skills!

Tech Wellness Assessment QuesEons

Is Your Technology Use Healthy?

Information Overload

What’s Your Tech Wellness Score? 1.  Is the only Eme you take a break from your tech when you’re sleeping? 2.  Do you check your phone before you go to bed or right when you wake up? 3.  Do you have problems recalling informaEon and resort to searching on

Google? 4.  Do you feel that you oIen have a hard Eme paying aTenEon or focusing on

a single task? 5.  Do you experience frustraEon at the amount of online informaEon you

need to process every day? 6.  Do you frequently or constantly check your email, TwiTer, Facebook or

other online services? 7.  Do you someEmes check your mobile phone for messages while in the

bathroom? 8.  Do you find yourself reaching for your phone even when you’re with

others? 9.  Do you sit at your computer at work or home for longer than 30 minutes at

a Eme without gesng up to take a break? 10. Do you ever check your mobile phone while walking outside? Add up all the quesEons you answered “YES” to for your score

0…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10 Source: LulumonathleEca

Healthy…………………………………………………………………………Unhealthy

What’s Your Technology Wellness Score?

The Road to Technology Wellness: A Few Tips

Tech Compulsive

Energy Depleted

AMenNon Defi

cit

Mindless"

Mindful"

Being Mindful means pausing, paying attention, being aware."

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Exercise: Experience Mindfulness

Mindful Tech

Monitoring Tech

How To Be Mindful At Home

Set up a charging staEon.

Movement and Stretching

“Boga”

Turn Off the Damn Computer and Go for A Walk

Beverly Trayner-‐Wenger

List of Standing Desk Resources hTp://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/walk

Stand Up At Work: Standing Desk Hack

Manage Your Energy

Manage Your AMenNon: 18 Minutes A Day

CreaNve AcNviNes

Another Way To Improve AMenNon: Coloring

hTp://www.bethkanter.org/adult-‐coloring-‐books/

Zentangle: Yoga for Your Brain

Zentangle: Show You

Your Turn

Your Technology Wellness Road Map

Takeaways: Share Pairs • What’s one Np or technique that you can put into pracNce to improve your tech wellness?

• Put on index card with your name/email for raffle for a prize

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AlizaSherman.com @alizasherman

BethKanter.org @kanter HappyHealthyNonprofit.org