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Digital Seminar

Anxiety and Stress in the Digital Era

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67% of your clients are compulsively checking their smartphones for alerts, calls, and texts—even without getting a notification. Our clients are in an enmeshed relationship with their smartphones… and our clinical training never taught us how to handle this kind of relationship.

Research has started to identify the impact of smartphone and internet overuse--linking it with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and stress. That’s why we have created a one-day live webinar packed with activities, visual tools, case studies, and experiential exercises to help your clients:

  • Understand connections between digital use and stress, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more, etc.
  • Identify tech use risks, like digital distress and sensory overload.
  • Regain control of digital overuse, protect energy, and balance screen-time.
  • Recognize the effects of social media’s “comparison culture” and turn towards real connection.
  • Experiential exercises, handouts, apps, and other resources!

In this recorded session, view two industry leaders, Nina Hersher, MSW, Chief Education Officer at The Digital Wellness Institute, and Elif Balin, LPC, NCC, Certified Digital Wellness Educator who will equip you with a toolkit of knowledge and strategies to eliminate tech overuse an addiction and move clients into a healthier relationship with their devices.

Here's What You'll Learn

  • Part 1: Foundations of Screen Time and Anxiety: Mental Health, The Attention Economy, and Digital Environments
    • Understand digital wellness key terminology and industry trends related to mental health and the attention economy
    • Identify the technology use risks (e.g., compulsive technology use, insomnia, loneliness, negative online social comparison) and understand how they may be linked to or exacerbate common mental health challenges with anxiety
    • Identify shifting norms of connectivity and anxiety in the digital era framed through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
    • Understand and address the impact of information overload and social media on mental health to support media-based anxiety in clients
  • Part 2: Combating Information Overwhelm and Sources of Screen-based Anxiety
    • Gain tools to model and teach the prevention and recovery of digital burnout and sensory overload related anxiety
    • Identify warning signs on the spectrum of digital usage including digital distress and information overload of the news
    • Utilize apps and tools to decrease technostress, protect energy, and balance screen-time
    • Identify effective digital boundaries and to rude anxiety for both practitioner and client
  • Part 3: Optimizing Communication and Solving for Anxiety in Telehealth Environments
    • Understand the impact of the digital revolution on telehealth communication and utilize trauma informed interventions to reduce screen-based anxiety with patients
    • Understand and overcome anxiety distraction-based pain points with telehealth to improve engagement and wellbeing (both client and practitioner - privacy, safety, comfort, loneliness)
    • Improve video calls and eye contact in telepsychotherapy incorporating considerations for psychological distance and anxiety
    • Learn strategies to facilitate feeling, conveying, and being perceived as empathic in computer-mediated communication (CMC)
    • Learn about written inflection and purposeful linguistics to communicate efficiently and effectively online and offline

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Nina Hersher, MSW

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Nina Hersher, MSW, is Chief Learning Officer at the Digital Wellness institute, author of the bestseller, Your Playbook for Thriving in the Remote Work Era, and a highly sought-after speaker. A leading expert in digital wellness, Hersher holds a specialized Master of Social Work in Norms of Connectivity, Digital Culture and Program Development from Washington University in St. Louis. Hersher is also Co-founder of annual Digital Wellness Day, reaching over 7.5 million people across the globe in 36 countries. Most recently, Hersher’s work was featured in publications including Forbes, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Al Jazeera, and Voice of America.

A member of several speakers bureaus, she has presented internationally at retreat centers, corporations, and conferences ranging from Kripalu and Wisdom 2.0 to Spotify, Dolby, and The King Abdulaziz Center. Nina’s pioneering work in digital wellness includes co-founding the Digital Flourishing® Wheel and approach with her team at The Digital Wellness Institute, which led to the creation of the first scientifically validated survey instrument to measure well-being in the digital age. Her leadership brought to life the first nationally accredited “Certified Digital Wellness Educator” program, an educational impact partnership with the 2-time Emmy award-winning documentary, The Social Dilemma, and two internationally renowned universities.

Hersher serves as a lead teacher and curriculum developer at The Digital Wellness Institute, sits on the advisory boards of two child and adolescent-focused Digital Wellness organizations, and was recently asked to serve on The Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Task Force at The Global Wellness Institute. She holds additional credentials including Oasis in the Overwhelm Facilitator, Teen Outreach Program Facilitator, and Meditation Teacher, with which she focuses on both youth and adult Digital Wellness education. She also runs Nina Hersher LLC, a private speaking, coaching, and curriculum development firm dedicated to research and education regarding mental health in a fast-paced world.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Nina Hersher is the co-founder of Digital Wellness Day and has an employment relationship with Digital Wellness Institute. She is a speaker and consultant with Nina Hersher, LLC. Nina Hersher receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Nina Hersher is a taskforce member of Global Wellness Institute, serves on the advisory board of Bonfire Digital Wellness, and the founding advisor and lead counselor for America Offline Camps.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059203
Duration:
1 hour, 32 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 01, 2022
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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