Detaching From Social Media: A Walking Guide To Authentic Connecting
With Julia MossbridgeIn this 14-day course, each brief class session is designed to be listened to while walking in your neighborhood, a park, or in a place you feel comfortable to walk outside your home. In the early classes, we'll work on getting out into the world, moving our bodies, and noticing the desire to check texts, emails, and social media accounts -- we’ll be tuning into how a new way of moving in the world feels. In the middle of the course we’ll make three commitments about the way we intend use our time in relationship to technology. And we’ll examine how it feels to consider re-centering physical presence and connection in our lives. Toward the end of the course, we'll challenge ourselves to notice when we revert to our addictions. We’ll love ourselves as we try to commit again. We'll work on connecting in real life on one of our walks with strangers who cross our paths. Finally we'll walk with a friend, family member, or neighbor where we live or work. This all can sound intimidating, and I don't want to scare you off -- please know we will walk together in the spirit of forgiveness, growth, and unconditional love. As for me, my background is in cognitive neuroscience (including a focus on learning) and I design technology as well, so I have dealt with understanding social media addiction at personal, scientific, and career levels. I will be with you step-by-step as we understand and reclaim our minds, bodies and spirits. Together, I look forward to reentering the experience of unconditional love for who we authentically are, reclaiming our rights to our own movements in the world, and reshaping our relationships to technology in ways that work for us. Note: Thanks to Joseph Mossbridge for excellent audio editing, songwriting, and production.
It's time to recover from social media addiction and reconnect authentically with our physical communities -- step by step.
About this course
In this 14-day course, each brief class session is designed to be listened to while walking in your neighborhood, a park, or in a place you feel comfortable to walk outside your home. In the early classes, we'll work on getting out into the world, moving our bodies, and noticing the desire to check texts, emails, and social media accounts -- we’ll be tuning into how a new way of moving in the world feels. In the middle of the course we’ll make three commitments about the way we intend use our time in relationship to technology. And we’ll examine how it feels to consider re-centering physical presence and connection in our lives. Toward the end of the course, we'll challenge ourselves to notice when we revert to our addictions. We’ll love ourselves as we try to commit again. We'll work on connecting in real life on one of our walks with strangers who cross our paths. Finally we'll walk with a friend, family member, or neighbor where we live or work. This all can sound intimidating, and I don't want to scare you off -- please know we will walk together in the spirit of forgiveness, growth, and unconditional love. As for me, my background is in cognitive neuroscience (including a focus on learning) and I design technology as well, so I have dealt with understanding social media addiction at personal, scientific, and career levels. I will be with you step-by-step as we understand and reclaim our minds, bodies and spirits. Together, I look forward to reentering the experience of unconditional love for who we authentically are, reclaiming our rights to our own movements in the world, and reshaping our relationships to technology in ways that work for us. Note: Thanks to Joseph Mossbridge for excellent audio editing, songwriting, and production.
Meet your Teacher
Dr. Mossbridge is a scientist and technologist pursuing a deep understanding of love, time, and how these two human experiences relate to each other and the physical world. She is an affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego, the co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time, the founder of Mossbridge Institute, the creator of the patented physiological decision-making tool Choice Compass, and an author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to artificial intelligence, mental and informational time travel, and unconditional love. Her PhD is in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University), her MA is in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco), and she was awarded her BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College).