Online Gatherings
In a response to the shelter-in-place mandate, we organized virtual events to keep the conversation going about life/tech balance.
Mental Health Awareness Month
Primary care physician/filmmaker, Delaney Ruston and her daughter Tessa Small joined Larissa “Larz” May, Founder of HalfTheStory and Professor of Psychology, Dr. Tracy Dennis Tiwary for a conversation about the mental health impacts of increasing use of technology.
INFLUENCE + CONNECTION: Social Media Matters
We gathered in the NDU Zoom Room with Larissa “Larz” May, fashion blogger turned non-profit founder of #HalfTheStory and Tommy Sobel, digital wellness coach, speaker and founder of Brick to explore ways to distinguish quality time in quarantine - on and off screens.
No Filter: Be The Change You Want To See In Your Feed
Katie Dalebout, writer and host of 2 popular mental health podcasts and Megan Sherer, Holistic Nutritionist and founder of the non profit, Be More had a frank conversation about body image, the wellness industry and using compassion to make positive changes.
Plugged In Parenting: Families in Quarantine
Catherine Price, award-winning journalist/author, How To Break Up With Your Phone, Stefanie Greenberg, LA Based Learning Specialist, facilitated by The Overlake School (Washington) Director of Technology, Jay Heath.Gather with us in the NDU Zoom Room. We discovered how three parents whose jobs are to educate others are now navigating the new world of being restricted to working remotely while helping children go to school online.
Navigating Our New COVID-19 Online World
Tracy and Tiffany led a conversation to help us understand the value of boundaries with screens to develop resilience, harness our anxiety and model behavior for those around us and children if we have them. We joined together to explore the art of reframing and creating healthy tech practices to apply in our remote work and online classrooms. Together, we discovered creative approaches to this new way of living.