Are you constantly on Facebook? Do you check your email the second you wake up? Feel addicted to your smart phone? If you said yes to any of these questions, then check out this presentation by Mark Ostach from mymentalspace.com. He'll teach you how to manage your time online and reduce stress caused from constantly being connected to technology.

1. How the Internet impacts your brain
By: Mark Ostach

2. : Help people prevent Internet
Addiction and Environmental Depression
: We help teach you how to
disconnect from technology so you
reconnect with your SELF.

3. • Constant digital and multi-media stimulation
is is coming at us from all directions causing
constant distractions. Especially for today’s
digital natives!

9. • In 2010, Neilson research reported the
average facebook user spends 8 hours a
month on the site. This number doubled since
2009.
• What would happen if people continued to
double there monthly hours on FB?

11. • A feeling of unexplainable stress,
worry and mood swings resulting
from the desire to constantly check
Facebook for no apparent reason at
all.

13. Caused from constantly being connected.

16. How it works:
When out to eat with your friends or
family, stack your phones before you
start eating. If anyone checks their
phone over the course of the meal, they
have to pick up the tab!

17. Why should you even
care how long you’re
connected online?

19. What’s the difference between the cars
on top and the car below?

20. • In 1968 the federal government mandated
that all new cars include seat belts at all
seating positions.

23. How can
mymentalspace
help?

24. the mentalspace manager
TM

26. • Balance Technology Management is a
workshop where we teach your audience how
to balance technology in today’s fast pace
world.
• Our workshops include a combination of
presentation, team exercises, and resource
material for attendees to take home.

27. • Increase
productivity
• Decrease stress
• Improve
employee
wellness

28. • Increase academic performance
• Improve focus
• Help prevent cyberbullying

29. Does the Web impact our
emotions and mood?

30. • Do you know someone who has been stressed
out or upset from the Web?
• Have you felt tired or exhausted after hours in
front of the computer?

31. • Do you or someone you
know use facebook to
check out ex-
boyfriends/girlfriends?

32. • Do you know someone who has been cyberbullied?

33. Next Steps

35. Dr. Larry Rosen
is a research
psychologist,
computer educator
and is recognized as
an international
expert in the
“Psychology of
Technology.”

36. mark@mymentalspace.com
313-444-9667
Thank You!