Building Wellness into Our Online Lives

In this networked age, all the clamor for our attention just keeps coming at us — yet we can learn to balance online life and work with being healthy, focused and able to get a good night’s sleep. Learning “digital wellness” is vital for CYC practitioners, and this virtual training offers practical measures you can use right now to improve your focus and reduce distraction.

We will begin by exploring some of the ways technology distracts us from the work we do. We’ll review the Digital Flourishing Wheel, created by the Digital Wellness Collective and explore approaches to improving your own digital wellness. These include shifting how you use and create your schedule, adopting a more mindful approach in your technology usage, and making adjustments to your physical space.

As you gain comfort and competence in using these approaches, you can teach them to the young people with whom you work!
Learning Objectives:
  • Expand awareness of the impact of digital technology on health and wellbeing
  • Learn how to use the Digital Flourishing Wheels
  • Learn physical space adaptations
  • Learn ways to shift how you create and use scheduling
  • Learn to use a more mindful approach to using technology.
CYC Certification Competency Domain:  Professionalism
1.5 Class Hours

Created by

Cindy Carraway-Wilson, MA, CYC-P

Cindy is Director of Training at Youth Catalytics and has extensive experience in the human services field as a youth worker, mental health therapist, clinical program director and trainer/facilitator. Currently, she leads a variety of trainings on topics such as Positive Youth Development, LGBTQ topics, outcomes measurement, supervision, stress management and self-care, professional and organizational development, and strategic planning. 
She is a member of the training cadre for the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and a certified trainer from the Academy for Educational Development.  Cindy is a senior instructor for the Academy for Competent Youth Work.  She is also a certified Pilates instructor and understands the value of applying a mind-body approach to professional development, health and wellness.
Cindy lives in Maine with her partner and two Siberian huskies
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