Technology connects, entertains, and empowers us in wonderful ways and also so much of it now seems designed to capture our attention for systems that don’t have our well-being at heart. This tension leaves many of us caught between two poles: embracing technology uncritically or rejecting it outright. As both a technologist and a meditator, I’ve been living in this tension and have discovered a third way.
Some ideas to practise rewiring your relationship with technology
This practice invites us into that middle path by bringing mindfulness to our relationship with technology. The practice blends simple, bite-sized strategies drawn from meditation with insights into how technologies are designed.
It includes formal exercises, guided practices that help us sit, pause, and notice our patterns of attention, as well as informal techniques for reframing how we engage with devices in the flow of everyday life.
By noticing the role technology plays in our daily transitions - from one task, thought, or breath to the next - we begin to shift from distraction to clarity, from autopilot to intention. This creates resilience, focus, and spaciousness, strengthening our ability to meet both personal and collective challenges.
These tools are not about withdrawal, nor about blind embrace. They are about cultivating awareness, so that the technologies we use serve what truly matters. In teaching, community practice, and lived experience, these strategies have consistently helped people feel more grounded, creative, and aligned with their deeper values, even in the midst of our bewildering and uncertain digital and non-digital world.
Join the events
Every first week of the month we hold a specific webinar on a Transition Practice with a guest. On the third Tuesday of each month there is a collective wisdom sharing space. We align the theme of the webinars and the sharing space each month. The webinars take the form of workshops led by individual facilitators, while the Collective Wisdom space functions as an open space where everyone can share their learnings and experiences, from their unique contexts. This space encourages discussion and connection with others in the wider Transition movement. These two spaces complement each other and each can be attended as a one-off event.
Join Rewiring Our Relationship with Technology webinar
Friday, 5th September at 16.00 UTC
Join the Collective Wisdom Session on Reflection & Inquiry
Tuesday, 16th September at 16:00 UTC
Diving deeper
Master the art of Rewiring Your Relationship with Technology
You can use the below resources to become more skilled at this. Explore them at your own leisure:
- jayvidyarthi.com - learn more about Jay and his recently published book ‘Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully’
- Resources - many healthy tech related resources compiled by Jay
- Surfing Life’s Changes: A 10 Minute Meditation for Navigating Transitions
Stay engaged
Opportunities to keep connected and learn more
- Connect with Jay on LinkedIn here.
This webinar is part of a 3-month series of webinars and community spaces sharing tangible practices and perspective around Technology exploring tech from psychological, physical, environmental and spiritual and other angles.
We have started a Tech in Transition space on our emerging digital, ethical, platform where people can continue the conversation between sessions, share resources and connect deeper to the ideas and practices shared in the webinar.
And to celebrate the launch of the Transition Platform we are hosting a raffle, which anyone who joins the platform between August and December will be automatically added into for a chance to win a free copy of Jay's book.
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