Introducing the Digital Habit Reset
Today, I’m excited to introduce the Digital Habit Reset and share how it could help you build a better relationship with your devices.
If you've missed any articles in this series and would like to catch up, I'm including a running list at the bottom of this email.
Over the last 5 years I’ve come to understand that maintaining a healthy relationship with our tech is a skill.
I’ve read hundreds of books, journals, articles and scientific studies. I’ve spoken to experts in related fields, from habit change and neuroscience to journalling and analytical reflection.
I tested every experiment and approach on myself and have delivered talks and training to over 5,000 professionals at companies like Google, Deloitte and KPMG.
After a Mind over Tech talk, attendees would often ask me how to establish longer-term change for themselves or their team.
In other channels I had parents asking me how to manage devices with their children, and entrepreneurs and creatives looking to find more flow and focus.
I started to consider how to help those individuals looking to go deeper, and set out to combine all of my learnings so far to make the most impactful learning experience possible.
Introducing the Digital Habit Reset
A 10-week programme of live workshops, habit disrupting experimentation and dedicated coaching to help you build a better relationship with your tech.
We’re running our next cohort from May 25th to July 27th and open for enrolment tomorrow.
Is this course for you?
Are you a creative or knowledge worker constantly distracted by a steady stream of notifications?
Are you a parent struggling to know how create a positive family culture with your devices?
Are you an entrepreneur or business leader wondering how to build a better digital culture with your team?
Our mission is to help you refocus, reconnect and reset your digital habits to help you embrace digital technology in a way which enriches your life, family or business.
The Mind over Tech experience
?? Human
Learning with Mind over Tech is not about theory: it’s a living experience.
We combine knowledge, hands-on exercises and meaningful, human connection to help new ideas to form, and new practices to stick.
?? Accessible
The subjects we touch can feel personal, and even overwhelming.
We’re mindful to break issues down into bite-size chunks so that our learners feel empowered and excited to adopt more intentional practices and behaviours.
?? Action-oriented
How can new understanding be translated into new behaviours?
We coach our learners to articulate this for themselves, and follow-up with them through physical and digital tools to reinforce new ideas, and stimulate behaviour change.
The Digital Habit Reset experience
?? Interactive Live Workshops (with options for all time zones and schedules)
We bring everyone together for weekly live 2hr workshops over the first 6 weeks to introduce our MORE methodology–a habit development approach based on Neuroscience, Behavioural Science, Mindfulness and UX Design.
This spaced practice approach helps embed learning over time as, on average, it takes 66 days for a new behaviour to become automatic.
?? Evidence-based Programme Design and Double Loop Learning
In between workshops, you'll run habit-disrupting experiments. These bridging exercises provide experiential double-loop learning, a proven process that creates fundamental habit change. A final live session at 10 weeks reunites the cohort to celebrate progress, share experiences and renew intentions.
?? Dedicated Coaching
To keep you on track, we’ve teamed up with executive coach Neshat Amirfathi.
Through 4 coaching calls, spaced throughout the 10 weeks, Nesh and her team of coaches will help you to define your goals, identify blockers and challenge any limiting beliefs.
?? Digital Habit Lab Card Deck
Before the course starts we'll send you a pack of our Digital Habit Lab experiment cards to use throughout the programme.
The experiments have been developed over 5 years, and are based on James Clear's 4 laws of habit change.
?? Lifetime access to our Digital Habit Toolkit
You'll get access to a growing library of video tutorials walking you through how to set yourself up for success on specific devices, platforms and apps.
?? Community Support
The Digital Habit Reset is a live, cohort-based course. You'll meet a community of global like-minded (yet diverse) peers to champion you on your journey.
How long does it take to establish a new habit?
We all know that habit change takes time, but how much? In this article, James Clear explores how long it really takes to build a new habit. He shares the story of Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon in the 1950s.
Maltz noticed that it took his patients about 21 days to get used to seeing their new face. He published this observation in a best-selling book on behaviour change called Psycho-Cybernetics.
Unfortunately, Maltz’s work was misunderstood. Even though he wrote that 3 weeks was the minimum time needed to adapt to a new change, society started spreading the common myth that it takes 21 days to form a new habit.
So how long does it really take?
Phillippa Lally, a health psychology researcher at UCL, London published a study which examined the habits of 96 people over a 12-week period. Each participant chose one new habit each week and reported back on their commitment. Some chose simple habits like “drinking a bottle of water with lunch.” Others went for more challenging tasks like “running for 15 minutes before dinner.”
Lally and her team found that on average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behaviour becomes automatic. The time varied widely depending on the behaviour, the person, and their context.
We’ve designed the 10-week Digital Habits Reset to start your journey, but we also know you’ll need more support to keep going.
Through the course, you’ll also get:
- ???♀? A full year of Mind over Tech Community Access When the course wraps on July 27th, you’ll automatically join the wider Mind over Tech community to continue your journey, with free access for a full year after the course ends. We run weekly digital habit experiments with community support and are constantly adding new resources to accompany the experiments.
- ?? 6-monthly Alumni Reunions Our reunions are a time to celebrate your progress, renew your intentions and take time to spot those places where your boundaries may have started to slip.
Tomorrow we open our doors for enrolment and I’ll share details of our exclusive offer only available to our followers.
Want to build a better relationship with your devices?
I'm hosting a handful of free workshops to get you started.
Digital Habit Foundations (live session)
Join me on tomorrow (May 10th) at 4pm GMT for a live one-hour session introduction into the science and neuroscience of tech and digital wellness, and how to reduce distraction by taking control of notifications on your own terms.
Getting M.O.R.E. from your tech (live session)
Join me on Thursday May 18th at 4pm GMT where I share a one-hour distillation of the methodology we teach at the Mind over Tech.
I hope you’ll join me, I look forward to seeing you there.
P.S If you've missed any previous emails in this series, you can catch up here:
- Why we are living in the age of digital overwhelm
- How many times do you touch your phone a day?
- The backstage reality of my enviable work trip
- You’ve lost connection. Reconnecting you now.
- The Monk vs. the Printing Press
- How my relationship with my tech became fuel for personal transformation
- Why I founded Mind over Tech
Jonathan Garner Founder of Mind over Tech
A seasoned web developer and user experience designer, Jonathan has spent the last 10 years designing and delivering programmes that demystify disruptive technologies, like Machine Learning and AI, to C-suite leaders around the world.
In 2015, while on a meditation retreat, Jonathan suddenly found himself doomscrolling in a locked toilet cubicle. He founded Mind over Tech with the mission to help himself, and others, find a better relationship with their tech while embracing the gifts of the digital world.
He firmly believes that exploring our digital habits can turn the mundane reality of emailing and zooming into fuel for personal transformation.