E-book

A short informative e-book with an introduction to smartphone addiction and its effects

Available for 14.95 euros.

Individual sessions and group packages

Information and advice on reducing or consciously dealing with smartphone use

For yourself if you want to cut back on your smartphone or for families/groups of parents who want to tackle this.

Many parents struggle with the use of the smartphones. A frequently heard and justified argument is that parents are concerned about smartphone use but do not want to deprive their children of social contacts or are afraid that their children will be left out. That is why a group training has been developed for groups of parents who know each other and who want to make an appointment together to get started:

Tailor-made training sessions at home in a group, for your circle of friends or with parents you want to engage with (preferably if your children have contact with each other) Individual advice and information

Rate

39 euros individual consultation (online or at an agreed location) Group training (from five people): 235 euros excluding VAT & travel costs

Where?

At a location of your choice or online

For organizations (education and welfare)

Support for professionals

The Ecopedagogue works together with educational and welfare institutions in the field of smartphone problems. The Ecopedagogue can be hired for information evenings with/for parents and to come up with an action plan together with professionals within their educational institution.

Consultation and advice on smartphone use among children/young people Providing information so that a tailor-made plan of approach can be put together within your organization (such as an information evening or policy choices

Rate

295 euros excluding VAT for consultation and advice495 euros excluding VAT for consultation, advice and a plan of approach (which may include training)Travel expenses not included (From >10KM, 0.30CTKM/OV fee)

As a pedagogue, I am always looking for answers on how we can improve the well-being of young people, their parents and mutual relationships. I myself am very internationally oriented: I regularly read foreign publications and trends in order to gain new insights, both on a scientific and social level. This is how my click journey on Google to smartphone use started in 2021, nevertheless because it bothered me myself: in my opinion it also had something to do with the fears and insecurities of the young people (16 ) I worked with. In the months that followed, I became more and more convinced - by all the information I found - of the debilitating effect of these devices on our relationship and mental well-being.

Early 2022, fast forward. On holiday in a warm place, my phone beeped: it was my sports club that wanted to know something. I was boiling with irritation and immediately visualized why: Imagine if this had happened to me in the 90s, then I would have been allowed to walk to the reception of the campsite about 10-20 times a day to see nonsensical, answer non-urgent questions. So much for the relaxed, disconnecting holiday feeling? Hell - NO.

I exchanged my smartphone in mid-2022 for another one, with which I can still be reached in many ways, but no longer have a scrolling smartphone that can attack my dopamine receptors in my brain.

The effects shortly afterwards were quite clear to me, just as I found them in literature and articles before:

The brain fog disappeared, because I started to feel more anonymous and more in my own life, I felt more connected and confident. The 'loose threads' stress, as I call it myself, disappeared: people I had not seen for years and perhaps wanted to congratulate via a notification, or briefly felt bad about it because I forgot, disappeared:

Not in the offline view, not in the eye and with that: stress from the heart.

I could still use the internet at home; so accessible outside the home, but not taken in by things that had nothing to do with what I was going to do outside my front door. More air, space and peace! My concentration, relationships and mood improved considerably I felt control over things that were happening around me, not those that were somewhere far away and about which I could do little. The helplessness disappeared.