Digital Wellbeing
We are living in an era of mass distraction!
While technology, screens and mobile phones have brought about huge transformation and made many things easy and accessible, they are also challenging our concentration, wellbeing and lifestyles in critical and at times alarming ways. An analysis of trends in mobile phone usage reported by RTE from a study done by App Annie in January 2022 found that people spend close to a third of their waking hours using their phones! Nobody gets up in the morning with the objective to spend 5 hours a day on their phone and yet it happens. Digital applications can be a great force for good in our lives but they also have a downside.
The session will give participants insights on the trends in terms of phone and screen usage and it will also show the cost of this and how to transform their own usage to support and add to their health, wellbeing, growth and life.
Learning Outcomes
- Insight into trends on phone and screen usage
- Understanding of how this is influencing health trends positively and negatively
- Understanding of how screens affect how we learn and our ability to concentrate – and how to counter adverse consequences
- How to change your screen habits personally
- How to motivate others to change their screen habits.
- Bringing it all together – how to boost my and others digital wellbeing
Presenter - Calodagh McCumiskey 
Calodagh is an accredited master practitioner in Wellbeing. She delivers wellbeing programmes to Corporates, Public Sector Bodies and the Education Sector. Clients include Danone, the IRFU, Bank of Ireland, the INMO, Press Up Entertainment and Wexford and Limerick Education Centres. She writes a weekly article on wellbeing for Independent News and Media regional publications.
Course Properties
| Course Date | 29-11-2023 6:30 pm |
| Course End Date | 29-11-2023 |
| Capacity | Book now |
| Individual Price | Free |
| Speaker | Calodagh McCumiskey |
| Select Hours | 1 |
| Location | Online |
| Categories | Primary, Post Primary |