This workshop will first include a presentation of statistics about screen time, social media, and mental health.
Next will be a follow-along tutorial of different tools and features you can use on your phone to help limit screen time and reduce distractions. Girls can participate in a mini “digital declutter”, which involves taking note of how much Screen Time they have, which are their top 3 apps, during what time of day they use their phone the most, creating a Focus Mode, and are challenged to delete 1 app from their home screen that they don’t really need.
Finally, we will run a challenge among girls asking them to put their phones face down and off to the side (just out of view). Girls mark on a post-it-note how many times they glance at their phone or check their phone for the remainder of the workshop. In the meantime, we play a true/false trivia game with mental health + technology-related questions. We will run some giveaways and run a promo of Chloe for our social media and review a breathing exercise to finish the 30-minute workshop.
General Wellness Activities:
– Recognize Your Good Habits! : in this activity, girls write down what habits, hobbies, or routines they have that they feel have a positive effect on their wellbeing. This could be playing a sport, reading a book, limiting TV time at night, etc. With a partner, they share the different routines and habits they have.
– Recognize Your Bad Habits: similar to above, the girls write down habits or behaviors they notice they do throughout the day. This could be comparing yourself to others, scrolling on your phone too much, playing video games when you should be doing homework etc. The important thing to note is the emotional state that you are in when you do or why you do this habit. Do you feel anxious about studying, and is that why you put off your work (procrastinate)? The girls partner with someone to share their findings.
– Replacing Bad Habits: following the above activity, this one is where the girls share with each other what they want their new habit to be in place of their old ones!
– Draw Your Own Brain!: in this creative activity, girls follow a given tutorial of how to draw Chloe. The girls are free to draw their own brain, giving them cool gloves, hat, glasses, shoes etc. and share with one another!
– Vision Board Crafting: I love vision boards, I made one this year! I have tons of magazines that can go to good use too for this project. I’ll talk about what a vision board is, what visualization is, and go around the room and ask the girls what’s one thing they want to do or achieve this year/in the next 3 months! It could be forming a new good habit or winning a competition for their sport. Girls then get time to make their vision boards, covering the different areas to think about when making a vision board like health/wellness, family, personal finance, school, travel, etc.
- Settle in and introduction: welcome to wellness with Chloe!
- Agree or Disagree Sides Activity:
- If you have a phone, open it now and go to your settings.
- We’ll be looking at everyone’s ScreenTime report.
- Digital Wellness Intro:
Everyone opens their phone and goes to the Settings. With their phones open, depending on what kind of phone they have, Android or iPhone.
Everyone lines up at the back of the room with their phone open, looking at their screen time.
- Take a step forward if your daily screen time average is ABOVE 5 hours
- Take a step forward if you check your phone FIRST thing in the morning
- Take a step forward if one of your top used apps is a social media app
- Take a step forward if you use your phone past 10 pm
- Take a step forward if you use your phone/laptop/tablet when procrastinating work
- Take a step forward if you use your phone in class
- Take a step forward if you have done a “digital detox” or know what that is
- Digital Detox
A digital detox is all about removing the apps or digital clutter that does not help you in your day-to-day life, or impacts your wellbeing positively. For instance, for me that means deleting Instagram ONCE a week on Wednesdays.
Raise your hand if you watch TV, movies, shows, scroll through your phone to relax. Do you actually feel mentally rested from doing those things? And what state is your body in usually when you’re scrolling? Hunched over, laying down, a very low energy state right. But if you just scored a goal in a soccer game, aced a really hard test, or saw your friend after a long vacation, you’d probably have both hands in the air and be jumping up and down! And that physical and emotional state feels much better than endlessly using screens to relax.
What emotion do you feel when you notice you’ve spent too much time watching YouTube or TikTok or Instagram Reels? Do you feel rejuvenated like you just scored a game winning goal or kinda “blegh”?
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