Mindfulness Parenting on the Frontier of Technology and Youth

Dom Sagolla
Tech Wild
Published in
4 min readMay 9, 2017

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Technology should be a joyful part of a child’s life, and a tool for mindful parenting.

Date

Saturday, July 8, 9:30am — 4:00pm

Location

Spirit Rock Community Meditation Center

Cost

Sliding Scale $75 — $200. Please bring your lunch.

Registration

Open to All—Register Here

Join mindful parenting expert, Dr. Shauna Shapiro and tech authority Dr. Dom Sagolla for an interdisciplinary workshop that combines ancient mindfulness practices, modern neuroscience, and lessons learned from the tech world to help us mindfully parent on the frontier of technology. We will deepen our own inner wisdom and compassion, as well as learn specific practices that help us raise emotionally intelligent children. Additionally, we will learn how to develop strong boundaries and guidelines for our children, especially around the conscious use of technology and devices. How to mindfully engage with technology is one of the dilemmas of our modern world, and we as parents need to respond proactively with presence, clarity and wisdom.

Please bring your technological devices to the workshop to learn specific strategies and practices for mobile phones and tablets. The intention of this workshop is to offer specific guidelines and practices for how to live a joyful, healthy, connected family life on the frontier of technology.

Teachings are appropriate for the general public as well as health care professionals. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program when working with clients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for more information.

Learning Objectives—for participating health care professionals

Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:

  • Articulate the three pillars of mindfulness and how they can be utilized when working with clients;
  • Describe 2 specific mindful parenting practices that may be used with clients;
  • Describe how mindfulness can shape and change the brain;
  • Incorporate compassion practices when working with clients to develop the emotional intelligence of their children.

Young Adults (18–26) and Seniors (65+ with limited income) are invited to attend this day for $45.

Instructors

Instructor Shauna Shapiro

Shauna Shapiro, PhD, is a professor, author, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness. Dr. Shapiro has published over 150 journal articles and chapters, and coauthored the critically acclaimed texts, The Art and Science of Mindfulness, and Mindful Discipline: A loving approach to setting limits and raising an emotionally intelligent child. With twenty years of meditation experience studying in Thailand, Nepal and in the West, Dr. Shapiro brings an embodied sense of mindfulness to her scientific work. Dr. Shapiro is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies teaching award, acknowledging her outstanding contributions to graduate education, as well as a Contemplative Practice Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, co-founded by the Dalai Lama. Dr. Shapiro has been invited to present her work to the King of Thailand, the Danish government, and the World Council for Psychotherapy in Beijing, China, as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Cisco Systems, Genentech and Google. Her work has been featured in Wired magazine, USA Today, Shape, Dr. Oz, the Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, and the American Psychologist. Learn more at http://drshaunashapiro.com.

Instructor Dom Sagolla

Dom Sagolla, EdM, is an engineer, author, and community organizer who has helped create and test version-one products such as Twitter, Obama ’08 for iPhone, and Starbucks for iPhone. He is co-founder and executive director of Developer Camp, a community promoting diversity, inclusion, and equality in the tech sector. The Developer Camp “hackathon” has directly led to the creation of companies such as Square and open standards such as OAuth — with an industry-leading 44% female participation rate. Dom is the author of 140 Characters: A style guide for the short form, published by Wiley, and the self-published Tech Wild: Mapping the frontier of technology and youth. Learn more about Dr. Sagolla of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, veteran of Hewlett-Packard Labs, the MIT Media Lab, and Adobe Labs at https://dom.net.

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Cofounder, Archipelo. Cofounder Developer Camp. Engineer, author, father of four.