Healthy Technology Community Leadership Program

Goal:

To develop leaders who support healthy technology habits in their local communities

Overview:

Healthy Technology Community Leadership Program - Technology is negatively influencing our brains, our mental health, and our social relationships. This is clear from both personal experiences and scientific studies. Understanding the influences of social media, gaming, gamification, AI, and all sorts of technologies that exist through use of our devices is the first step toward making healthy technology choices and then developing healthy habits. However, doing this alone is virtually impossible. We need a societal shift. The goal of this program is to create that societal shift and aggregate individual efforts by developing leaders who will (and already do) pave the way within their local communities, with the support of this mega community. This program is designed to support people who want to become Leaders in Healthy Technology by understanding the related neuroscience, developing specific skills in facilitation to inspire change within their communities, and joining the mission of a mega group of leaders. This mega group of leaders will be led by Dr. Mandy Wintink, Professor in Psychology and Research Director at Branch Out Neurological Foundation, and our own resident Curriculum Officer who is inspiring this grassroots change within her own child’s school and has been doing so within her university courses since 2017. This program could start as early as May/June, if I got the first 15 people interested. 

Who is this program for? 

Anyone who is aspiring to become a Leader in Healthy Technology within any local community, whether that’s in their children’s schools, their own workplaces, their family, their friend group, or any other local group. Community leaders in this program will develop skills, be provided with resources and science, and be supported in their leadership journey. 

Resources:

This program will make use of a variety of current scientific literature as well as the literature that has been curated through these and other important organizations: 

Children and Screens: https://www.childrenandscreens.org/

Note:

This course is currently being developed. If you are interested in please email Dr. Wintink directly to be placed on the waitlist: drwintink@canc.ca

You can view a draft of this curriculum here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1273nbLAK86JOijU8dOZHdB2XAD422spL_oT-srNUWiY/edit?usp=sharing

Mentorship, Workplace TrainingMandy Wintink