Digital Archives - Everyday Empowered https://everydayempowered.com.au/category/digital/ Home Herbalism and Natural Living Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:44:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://everydayempowered.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-EverydayEmpowered_siteicon-1-32x32.png Digital Archives - Everyday Empowered https://everydayempowered.com.au/category/digital/ 32 32 Introducing Screen Smart Families https://everydayempowered.com.au/introducing-screen-smart-families/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:44:15 +0000 https://everydayempowe.wpengine.com/?p=573 As a parent, I’ve had to tackle my own fears whilst researching this workshop – deep diving into online grooming and sexual solicitation, sexting, cyberbullying… But rather than shriveling up and locking my kids in their rooms (without a device thank you), what I’ve learnt has empowered me, comforted me and led me to rethink what I knew about kids online. This shift in mindset, to confident, empowered and positive is something I’d like to share with you! The Screen-Smart Families workshop has been designed with busy parents in mind. It’s a crash course on how screens can impact our family and what we can do about it. It’s about setting up strong foundations so that your family can develop a healthy relationship with technology. What this workshop is: Developing a tech-positive vision Learning foundational principles to develop a healthy relationship with technology A supportive community to share the ups and downs of parenting in the digital age. We’re here to have nonjudgmental, compassionate, and honest dialogue. Have a plan, and a basic understanding of where we’re going as parents in this new ‘wide open frontier’ All about you and your family. I’m not going to tell you who you […]

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]]> As a parent, I’ve had to tackle my own fears whilst researching this workshop – deep diving into online grooming and sexual solicitation, sexting, cyberbullying… But rather than shriveling up and locking my kids in their rooms (without a device thank you), what I’ve learnt has empowered me, comforted me and led me to rethink what I knew about kids online. This shift in mindset, to confident, empowered and positive is something I’d like to share with you!

The Screen-Smart Families workshop has been designed with busy parents in mind. It’s a crash course on how screens can impact our family and what we can do about it. It’s about setting up strong foundations so that your family can develop a healthy relationship with technology.

What this workshop is:

  • Developing a tech-positive vision
  • Learning foundational principles to develop a healthy relationship with technology
  • A supportive community to share the ups and downs of parenting in the digital age. We’re here to have nonjudgmental, compassionate, and honest dialogue.
  • Have a plan, and a basic understanding of where we’re going as parents in this new ‘wide open frontier’
  • All about you and your family. I’m not going to tell you who you should be or how your family should use technology. You’ll get to explore what the foundational principles and expert recommendations look like in your context.

What this workshop isn’t:
The scope of internet and kids is huge! Honestly, the sheer number of topics and issues that various families will encounter is enormous, and beyond the scope of any one workshop to cover. This workshop will give you the solid foundation you need to set up a healthy digital culture in your family, and we’ll cover some of the hot topics that you and your kids might encounter online. This workshop:

  • isn’t solely about cyber safety. We’ll cover how to stay safe online and what to do when scary stuff happens, but we won’t get as in-depth as a cyber safety expert. Stay tuned though if you want that help, and we’ll organise a cyber safety expert to come and talk to us one day too.
  • isn’t based on fear, guilt or worry. Like fearless warriors we will cover all the common issues your kids could face online – even the ones that make you want to bury into your doona wishing you’d never had kids –  but by supporting each other and  having a plan, we’ll walk away feeling confident and empowered.

So whatever questions you’ve got – bring them!
Think you don’t need to come to this yet – come anyway!
Wish you could be doing something else with your precious time – then let’s make this time count!

Find upcoming workshops on the event page >

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]]> Technology: Pioneer Parents https://everydayempowered.com.au/technology-pioneer-parents/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:33:00 +0000 https://everydayempowe.wpengine.com/?p=63 Imagine you’re an explorer of old, looking out over a vast landscape of new flora and fauna. Everything looks different, the quality of the light, the plants, the sounds, the very stars in the sky. You’re disoriented, and feel both exhilarated and anxious in turn. Parents of digital natives are these explorers of old. We’re pioneer parents, facing a brave new (digital) world and we desperately want our most precious cargo to make it safely through. As a community, we have a wide variety of reactions to screens and our kids. Some parents proudly tell me how their toddler can navigate apps on their smartphone. Others whisper their secret fears of danger and harm. Most agree that the speed of change is overwhelming and they can’t keep up. Rather than blindly navigating this new terrain based on gut feel, imagine how much more confidently we could navigate with a map, a compass and a hardy dose of common sense. In my 2 hour Screen-Smart Family workshop, this is exactly what I hope to put in your hands. A map with a direction forward. A compass that’s built on a set of foundational principles, which I call digital life skills; and a hardy dose […]

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]]> Imagine you’re an explorer of old, looking out over a vast landscape of new flora and fauna. Everything looks different, the quality of the light, the plants, the sounds, the very stars in the sky. You’re disoriented, and feel both exhilarated and anxious in turn.
 
Parents of digital natives are these explorers of old. We’re pioneer parents, facing a brave new (digital) world and we desperately want our most precious cargo to make it safely through.
 
As a community, we have a wide variety of reactions to screens and our kids. Some parents proudly tell me how their toddler can navigate apps on their smartphone. Others whisper their secret fears of danger and harm. Most agree that the speed of change is overwhelming and they can’t keep up.
 
Rather than blindly navigating this new terrain based on gut feel, imagine how much more confidently we could navigate with a map, a compass and a hardy dose of common sense.

In my 2 hour Screen-Smart Family workshop, this is exactly what I hope to put in your hands. A map with a direction forward. A compass that’s built on a set of foundational principles, which I call digital life skills; and a hardy dose of common sense.

Leaving metaphor behind, you’ll leave the workshop with a comprehensive workbook and you’ll know how to:

  • set age-appropriate rules with your kids
  • deal with scary situations online
  • know the biggest influence on your kids technology use

Particularly important to me is that this workshop is a guilt-free, shame-free event where I encourage each of you to find out what works for your kids and your family. We’ll learn a set of foundational principles for setting rules and tackling problems as they arise, and then we’ll have space to discuss what that looks like in your particular context.

Our next workshop:

Saturday, March 6 | 2-4pm. Gathered Folk, Noosaville
$50

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