GOING OFFLINE: A mindfulness based digital detox & social fitness reset

Do you ever feel like your brain has been hacked by your phone?  

Going Offline is a mindfulness based digital detox and social fitness course designed to help you reclaim time and attention from devices and focus on building connection in the real world.

The super computer in our pocket has become an essential tool for communicating and navigating modern life. However, constant connectivity also comes at a high cost to our focus, mental health and ability to spark and build close relationships. How we see ourselves and the phenomenal world is increasingly shaped by powerful, immersive technologies designed to be addictive and hack our attention and innate drive for intimacy and community.

In this 4 week course we will introduce a mindfulness based approach to reclaiming attention and agency from screens and explore social fitness habits for building relationships and community offline.

Topics covered 

Week 1: Mindfulness in the digital age

The first session introduces Going Offline and how mindfulness can help reset our relationship with technology and reconnect with basic goodness and the living world

Week 2: Self compassion and breaking free of the digital samsara

Through self compassion we develop a foundation of unconditional friendliness towards oneself while working with habitual patterns online and off.

Week 3: Facing boredom, FOMO and loneliness

Most people spend 7 or more hours a day behind a screen, going offline can feel like going through the fire. Instead of reaching for a device for a hit of cheap dopamine we can open to connection already present in our world.

Week 4:  Social fitness and creating a better party

Like physical fitness, improving social fitness requires being active. Regardless of  your relational goals, intimacy begins with vulnerability and making small bids for connection.     

The class is open to all. Register at Victoria Shambhala Centrehttps://victoria.shambhala.org/program-details/?id=816574

*Please note we will be discussing personal topics including loneliness and addiction, which may be triggering for some people. This intention of this class is educational and for personal growth, rather than therapy.

Program fee

Regular program fee $80

Patron price 96$

Reduced price $64

Low income Pay what you can

About Silas Rosenblatt

Silas has been practicing meditation in the Buddhist tradition for over 30 year and is a director of Shambhala training, Having spent decades in the not for profit sector and public health as a registered acupuncturist and running an Acu-detox clinic, Silas developed a strong interest in the psycho-social dimensions of health and the power of mindfulness for healing. His current work focuses on leadership and social fitness coaching and podcasting about conscious relationships in the digital age.

More information: awakeinrelationship.com