In Our Hands: Reclaiming the Lost Self from Technology, a Digital Liberation Workshop

This workshop is your opportunity to reckon with the digitization of our times, reclaim the lost self from technology, and rewire your relationship to creativity.

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver asked in her beloved poem The Summer Day. The average person now spends 61 to 80 days each year on their smartphone devices, and technology companies are becoming even more effective at designing apps that psychologically captivate and sustain the attention of hundreds of millions of people. We are faced with a collective conundrum that holds great grief for what we have lost and great opportunities for what we might create moving forward. 

Recent psychological research shows that individuals with insecure attachment styles (anxious or avoidant) are more vulnerable to compulsive relationships with their smartphones as they attempt to experience a reliable ‘secure base’ through devices over direct relationships. 

How can we remember the power that lies in our hands? How can we reclaim our unlived lives, rewire our neuropsychology in community, and shift our attention toward our souls’ longings and creative potential?

With the support of a community, a collective of creative souls, each day together will include:

• A guided morning meditation practice for connecting internally to self.
• A reading and reflection on the poem of the day.
• An instructive lecture on the latest psychological and attachment research on the impact of technology on the human experience.
• A collective creative practice of engaging with others to embrace discomfort and the practice of being with the unknown intentionally.
• Personal time to be with the land and one’s own creative muse.
• Community evening gatherings, including heart-warming practices to rest and digest.

Your hands are the living hands of your ancestors — and we are here for such a brief, precious time. In this one life, something uniquely expressed is meant to come through you, and you have this opportunity to bring something new onto this resilient earth and into this fragile world. Put down your device and reclaim your creative right to contribute the art that can only come through your hands.