Day 1 – Sharing Stories

• Our “real” social network
  • Who needs us constantly connected?
• Locking away our phone/computer/tablet for the entire day
• Signing off “the chart”
  • What are our shared values and guiding principles for this journey together?
• Mindfulness exercise
• Lunch
• Where we are and where we want to go
  • Everybody shares his/her own story of relationships with technology, social media, mobile phones, emails, gaming, etc.
• Homework: let’s start measuring
• Mindfulness exercise

Day 2 – Mapping the problem and the consequences

• How the trick works
  • Social media advertising, marketing and psycho-demographics
  • Ad-based business model
  • Attention economy
• Locking away our phone/computer/tablet for the entire day
• Mapping game
  • A card game based on collective intelligence principles
  • Understanding the complex relationships between technology and cognitive capacities, mental health, behaviour and social skills
• Homework: notice the context, the triggers
• Mindfulness exercise

Day 3 – Technology clean-up

• How does it feel? Feedback and emotions
• Locking away our phone/computer/tablet for the entire day
• Cleaning up and sorting apps
• Lunch
• Managing notifications
• Learning to use the “focus mode”
• Cleaning up our entire digital life
• Mindfulness exercise

Day 4 – Reclaim your brain

• How does it feel? Feedback and emotions
• Locking away our phone/computer/tablet for the entire day
• The concept of phubbing
• Lunch
• The concept of flow
• Managing emotions: from FOMO to JOMO
• Mindfulness exercise

Day 5 – Recap and make it last

• Locking away our phone/computer/tablet for the entire day
• Looking back and celebrating success
• Lunch
• The concept of Phasting
• Some attention-building exercises
• More on solitude and boredom
• Final tools and resources