Online Stress Summit

Tomorrow our second international Online Stress Summit will go live and we trust that you are looking forward to it as much as we do.

Danielle and I are proud to present this Online Stress Summit as part of the Belgian contribution to International Stress Awareness Day, a day where all around the world awareness is raised around the dangers of stress.

We do this with sharing the meaningful and authentic conversations we had on the topic of “DOES HI-TECH CAUSE HI-STRESS” with experts from the US, Canada, England, Netherlands, South Africa and Belgium

• Each expert has given their insights, tips and strategies as professionals as well as human beings, having families and personal challenges.
• We get to see and hear how they deal with technology personally and how they advise us, as experts, to navigate in this fast-changing world.

Every interview has its own angle and character. We sincerely trust that you will enjoy watching them and talk about them with your surroundings.

One thing is sure: It is tempting to let technology control our lives, while the challenge is to consciously choose what we want technology to do for us. At the same time, it is essential to keep our basic priorities of authentic, purposeful living and human connection.

If you do not have the time during the day tomorrow, no worries as we have arranged for each interview to be available on the website, social media, and as a podcast from November 8th.

The conversation on “Does Hi-Tech Cause Hi-Stress?” starts tomorrow and hope you’ll help us to continue it for the rest of the year as this topic touches not only our lives but the lives, health and well-being of generations to come, of our children and grandchildren.

So join us in one of the most important conversations of our time.

Your Hosts

Tom and Danielle
www.onlinestresssummit.com

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On November 7, International Stress Awareness Day, the Online Stress Summit goes life at 10h00 (CET) and every 30 minutes until 17h00 (CET) we have another expert shining his or her light on the topic “Does Hi-Tech cause Hi-Stress”.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

www.onlinestresssummit.com

How to become better at being human?

Our second international Online Stress Summit is only 6 days from now and we are getting excited about everything that we have in place for you.

In the last weeks, we have talked more about the link between technology and stress than ever before: at home, in our practice, during social interactions and of course in our interviews with global experts. Clearly, almost everybody is intrigued, to say the least, about what the future of high-technology, automation and artificial intelligence is going to do with us as human beings.

And one thing is sure: It is more important than EVER to emphasize the “human” and the “being” in our society. If we want to stay in control and use technology in a positive way, we need to manage and adapt our behaviour around technology. At the same time, keep our basic priorities of authentic, purposeful living and human connection.

Each expert that we interviewed gives his/her own view, knowledge and tips on how to do that. Every interview has its own angle and character. We sincerely trust that you will enjoy watching them and talk about them with your surroundings.

“Does Hi-Tech Cause Hi-Stress?”can be a topic for the rest of the year as we will keep on spreading this Summit globally for everyone to watch, also after November 7th. It touches not only our lives but the lives, health and well-being of generations to come, of our children and grandchildren.

So join us in one of the most important conversations of our time.

Your hosts

Tom and Danielle
www.onlinestresssummit.com

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Watch all previews of the Online Stress Summit on YouTube

Dr Lynda Shaw is an experienced entrepreneur having owned 3 businesses including a health club with 2000 members and 20 staff.  She holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in the unconscious processing of emotion and communication.

She is a registered chartered psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, a Forbes contributor as well as an author of adult and children’s books.  Her latest is a business book called Your Brain Is Boss, a guide to becoming wealthier, healthier and happier.

Graeme Codrington (SA) is an internationally recognised futurist. He specialises in the future of work and has helped companies across the world to understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years.

He’s worth listening to because he has five degrees, five best-selling books and lectures at five international universities including London Business School and Duke. But don’t worry, he’s not a boring academic; he’s steeped in business knowledge having worked at KPMG, for an IT start-up and in the charity sector.

He is also one of the founders of strategy consulting firm TomorrowToday Global.

Humor to Heal the Brain and Body

Heidi Hanna the Executive Director of the American Institute of Stress (AIS) and Founding Partner of The Academy for Brain Health and Performance,  who is one of the many experts on the Online Stress Summit is offering a FREE webinar on “How to Use Humor to Heal the Brain and Body.”

Humour is known to

• Decreases inflammation in the body
• When you can start your Stress Mastery Certification process
• Improves memory and cognitive capacity
• Allows us to problem solve more creatively over time

This live webinar will take place on the 14th of November and will re-run for 24-hours after and you’ll get to download her newest eBook “What’s so funny about stress” for FREE.

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It’s still not too late to register also for the FREE Online Stress Summit

DOES HI-TECH CAUSE HI-STRESS

7 November 2018

With Heidi Hanna as one of our many experts. For more information and registration go to www.onlinestresssummit.com

Why the Royals Are Almost Never Seen Holding Their Phones and How Science Says We Can Benefit From Their Habit

The benefits go beyond just etiquette. By Nora Battelle, Multimedia Staff Writer at Thrive Global

You may notice that Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and other members of the royal family are almost never photographed

with their phones out. The royals avoid being seen with cell phones so assiduously you might even think they don’t have them at all.

But Harper’s Bazaar pointed out a phone in Prince Harry’s pocket during his current visit to Australia with Meghan Markle, and Markle was spotted by the Daily Mail with her iPhone while departing the city, so we know that’s not the case.

>>> continue reading on Thrive Global

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What is Technoaddiction?

In 3 weeks time on November 7, ‘International Stress Awareness Day‘ we’ll dedicate with the Online Stress Summit a whole day on the topic “Does Hi-Tech cause Hi-Stress?“

Danielle and I have interviewed international experts and asked them their view on the positive and the adverse effects technology can have on our health and well-being including technostress, game and technology addiction.

Technology addiction is a broad term that refers to the uncontrollable urge to use technological devices such as computers, smartphones, and gaming systems. Technology addiction appears to be more prevalent among teenagers, but is found amongst the broader population as well. According to the International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine, as many as one in eight Americans suffers from some type of technology addiction.

Technology addiction is a recently identified addiction that has not yet been medically classified but has been linked to the widespread and rapid evolvement and use of technological devices. What actually causes technology addiction is not all that well understood. Researchers claim it may be a combination of inherent genetic traits and elements in the environment. These three factors have been identified as possible underlying causes of technology addiction:

1. State of an individual’s mental health
2. Personality traits
3. Environmental factors

>> continue reading https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-technology-addiction-definition-signs.html

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On the Online Stress Summit we talk about techno and game addiction with digital stress expert Matthias Dewilde (BE) who was himself addicted to games and now goes around schools and advises parents on how deal with it.

Here is his interview preview

Matthias Dewilde (BE) is a digital stress expert, author & consultant. After experiencing a long term screen & gaming addiction himself, he now guides children, parents & companies alike in creating a more balanced on- & offline lifestyle at home or at work.

His clients, including Marriott, Teamleader & Cronos, have relied on him to show the impact technology is having on our wellbeing & our kids – and how to  thrive & find peace  in a world filled with devices.

As a speaker he is connected to organizations such as Child Focus and received national acclaim & press coverage for his engagements and contributions to treating screen & gaming addiction.

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Watch also the interview with Technostress expert Sean D. Waters (SA) who also addresses the topic of social media addition

Sean D. Waters (SA) is the founder of the Stress Less Clinic® and the authority on Technostressology™the study of technostress as a modern disease on which he has done extensive research.

He works as a Stress Specialist Practitioner in the Stress Less Clinic® in Johannesburg where he provides simple effective and practical ways of helping both individuals and companies on awareness, understanding, managing, coping, and evaluating their lives.

Make sure you register to the FREE Online Stress Summit to watch Mattias’ and Sean’s full interview and many others on and from November 7.