Digital wellbeing is the practice of using technology in a healthy and balanced way. It’s about being mindful of the time spent online, understanding the potential risks of using digital devices and taking action to ensure positive digital experiences. Digital wellbeing can be achieved through setting healthy limits on device use, using digital devices with purpose, being mindful of online relationships, and promoting digital citizenship. With the right practices, digital wellbeing can help to create a positive digital environment and foster healthy relationships between individuals, their devices, and their digital world.
As we approach the last day of the year, we have a perfect opportunity to reflect on our previous twelve months. One way to reminiscence is to think of the essential inspirations that shaped us, so here is a list of my top book recommendations.
The problem with individualism? It is White and it is ruining the planet.
I am very impressed with the Mental Health Foundation’s take on the changes in their approach to race and diversity. Why is their recent announcement effective?
I have been experimenting with my list of privileges and spaces where people tend to discriminate against me with simple shifts in language. When people correct my pronunciation, I refer to myself as ex-pat (instead of an immigrant). When men refuse to read out loud my Zoom question during a public event I rename myself from Sylwia to Syl (less feminine, easier to read but also more ambiguous, so harder …
This book is relevant to us all. It will change you for the better. It will help the healing, and who knows, it might also help you thrive.
We all know stories matter. Stories made Homo Sapiens the most successful kind. I wonder, what if we succeed in building a better, kinder future instead?
On the #MLK Day, my few words about our white privilege, where to start and how we might be able to do better.
I sense 2021 will be our year of healing, however here, at Voxel Hub, I am setting a different intention: exploring change.
I chose “navigating change” as the core topic of 2021 on this blog. I sense that 2021 will be a year of healing and recovery, however many of us will still face social isolation, experience grief and discover new sensitivities. I myself have experienced a few years of severe social isolation in the past and so I know that it can be really raw, fragile, anxiety-provoking experience to come back …