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Thriving with Tech: Screentime and more

5.0 (3)

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4 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Doomscrolling social media to always checking e-mail, poor digital habits affect your ability to engage and succeed. Do something about it.

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Course overview

Get off the hamster wheel of constantly checking devices. Quantifiable outcomes.

For adults, the symptoms of excessive unmanaged screentime can shows up as:


❌ Lack of Focus

❌ Burnout

❌ Blocked creativity


If you are a parent - the stakes can feel higher. How you use your devices directly affects how your child's relationship with technology. The U.S Surgeon General thinks that social media ought to come with a warning label, just like a pack of cigarettes does. Yikes!


How this course helps you:


1) Get Stuff Done: Traditional productivity advice is decades old (Pomodoro anyone?) and doesn't account for today's asynchronous, globally distributed nature of school and work. We'll explore how productivity tips from the past could actually be degrading your ability to set goals and complete tasks.


2) Become resilient to burnout: Emails over dinner and texting while with family & friends; are commonplace. Each of these digital interactions imposes a mental health tax - eventually leading to burnout. We'll learn how to leverage Digital Wellness as a "trampoline" to bounce back and regain your sense of agency!


3) Ignite your creativity: In an era of digital transformation, our ability to explore and be open-minded has dwindled, shrinking our creativity. We'll dive deep into ways to counterbalance the impact of some common digital trends such as Nostalgia in media, content binges etc.


This is an emerging space, and we'll leverage established behavioral science and the latest digital wellness research, to develop a personalized, sustainable action plan that includes targeted exercises to help you stay on track. You also have access for 1:1 coaching from the instructor (more information will be provided to enrolled students)

Who should sign up

01

Entrepreneurs: If you check E-mail/Slack/Teams before going to bed and/or the first thing in the morning - this course is for you.

02

Parents: If you've worried about your kid's screentime (and who hasn't!) - the framework we teach is easy for you to learn and model.

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Social Media Specialists If you are constantly online for your job, you learn how to reframe your relationship with tech.

What you should expect to learn

Find and avoid attention traps

There are macro digital trends that are fracturing your attention and sense of agency. Through the lens of established research on topics such as nostalgia, psychology of control, humor etc. we will explore common productivity and creativity traps in our daily lives.

Reframe your relationship with tech

Just counting hours in front of a screen is of limited value. As work, life and entertainment share the same screens, it's time to go beyond tracking screen time. Via Scroll By Choice - you'll develop a baseline score of your relationship with technology, and track progress.

Develop an action plan that works you

Using our human-centered framework of Smiles, Skills and Surprise - you'll see how you can build up your sense of digital agency, take charge of your habits and course-correct.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

12 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Oct 30—Nov 3

    Oct

    31

    Class 1: Why you can't stop doomscrolling.

    Thu 10/311:30 AM—2:45 AM (UTC)

    Your Sense of Agency. What is it, and why it matters

    2 items • Free preview

    Baseline Your Digital Wellness: Choice Score

    3 items • Free preview

Week 2

Nov 4—Nov 10

    Nov

    7

    Class 2: Macro digital trends designed to grab attention

    Thu 11/72:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

    The Digital Wellness Trampoline!

    2 items

    1:1 Coaching

    1 item

Week 3

Nov 11—Nov 17

    Nov

    14

    Class 3: Hybrid work and it's affect on digital wellness

    Thu 11/142:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

    Dopamine + The Seeking System: Looking to Neuroscience for help

    1 item

    1:1 Coaching

    1 item

Week 4

Nov 18—Nov 20

    Nov

    21

    Class 4: Putting it all together

    Thu 11/212:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

Post-course

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    1:1 Coaching

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What students are saying

Free resource

Happy with your screentime?

Facts: 4 out of 10 people check email first thing in the morning. You lose 45 minutes every day to social media alone. The digital debt is adding up and burnout now affects 1 out of 2 people.


Discover how your digital habits - from email to TikTok - are impacting your wellness, productivity and creativity.

Learn how to reclaim control!

Meet your instructor

Riz Vazir: Founder at Scroll By Choice

Riz Vazir: Founder at Scroll By Choice

Founder/CEO, Scroll By Choice

Riz Vazir is the founder of Scroll by Choice, a digital wellness company focused on empowering people to reclaim control over their screentime.


Previously, Riz held leadership roles at companies such as Microsoft, where he was the Director of Business Strategy and AON, where he led employee health benefits administration programs for Fortune 50 clients.


He is a certified Change Management professional, underscoring his commitment to driving positive transformations.


Riz has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in computer science & economics from Knox College.

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