Gain insight on how the rapid changes in today's world are influencing children's brains. As technology advances and urbanisation intensifies, children face both unique opportunities and significant challenges. This session will delve into how these factors impact cognitive functions, behaviour, and emotional wellbeing. Prof. Sam Wass discusses how modern technology can affect children’s brains and what parents and carers can do to support children’s attention in the age of constant digital distraction.
You may also be interested in:
Keeping children safe online
This session provides parents & carers with a window into the current popular technologies and how children use them. Demonstrating the massive positives and potential pitfalls, the session provides parents with advice, coping strategies and resources to help them understand and engage with their child’s online lives.
The power of community
When we help others, the benefits are endless. This session focuses on community. Together we have so much more power to create positive change. We’ll feel happier, healthier, and better able to face life’s challenges.
A manual for being human
Dr Sophie Mort helps you understand why we all feel anxious, stressed, insecure and down from time to time. Her three-step methodology helps you to identify problems arising from past experiences and current life events, and look at the patterns, bad habits and negative cycles that may make you feel stuck. Then, by drawing on established, proven therapeutic techniques, provides a toolkit of go-to techniques to use whenever you need them. This session offers support to those feeling lost at sea in today’s troubling times and gives you the tools to help get the most out of life.