Rewilding the Mind: Liberatory Technology to Support Wellbeing

Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology means we live more of our lives with, through, and mediated by it. The science suggests that our connection with technologies carries both opportunities and risks to our social, societal, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions. The concerns about our disconnection caused by distraction, social comparison, loneliness, and lack of true connection, both inner and outer dominate the conversations, however technologies have the potential to enhance our self awareness, insight, and compassion. This talk with focus upon digital mood and emotion tracking apps and the online Atlas of Emotion as examples of how our technologies have the potential for helping us become more mindful and ultimately free from destructive emotions. The conscious cultivation of awareness through practices that teach us how to pay attention to our…