Social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and others play a central role students’ lives today.

Our secondary school workshops encourage students to reflect on their scrolling habits and think critically about the kind of content and viral trends they encounter online. We pay particular attention to recommender algorithms and the role they can play in promoting harmful worldviews and beliefs, such as unrealistic beauty standards and the “manosphere”. 

Most parents today are familiar with the stress and conflict that comes with the “constant battle” to control their children’s social media usage. 

Rules and boundaries around social media usage tend to not work when they’re imposed from the “top down”. Rather, they tend to work when everyone involved has a say. Our workshops provide parents with a blueprint for opening up constructive conversations around social media. 

We also recognise that its important for parents to practice what they preach. With this in mind, the workshops also help parents to reflect on their own social media habits. 

Most young adults today rely on social media to help them socialise, discover new interests and build a sense of identity and belonging. 

Our college workshops help young adults to understand how scrolling can affect our mental health and what steps we can take to build healthier social media habits. These workshops also allow for extra space to discuss other important and closely-related topics such as pornography, dating apps and AI.  

While students might not be allowed to scroll Instagram or TikTok in class, that doesn’t mean that social media’s effects don’t find their way into the classroom. Cyberbullying, reduced attention spans and behavioural issues are just some of the ways in which social media can make the job of teachers harder. 

Our workshops help teachers to understand how social media works as a business and a product and how it shapes youth culture. This has less to do with understanding specific social media trends or references, but rather the forces that shape and create them. Like our workshops for parents, our workshops for teachers also offer practical steps for opening up constructive dialogue. 

Things that affect our personal lives can also affect our professional lives. For example, unhealthy social media habits can affect our ability to do our job properly or maintain healthy relationships with our colleagues.

Our corporate workshops help employers and employees to become the best versions of themselves both inside and outside the workplace. A strong collective understanding how scrolling can affect our mental health can help create a happier and more productive workplaces. 

Some of the best antidotes to endless scrolling are the things communities already do well: meeting up, playing together and organising local events. These offline spaces matter more than ever.

Our workshops help clubs and community groups strengthen those spaces, rethink how they use social media, and work together to build their members build healthier digital habits.