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It Is Written Canada’s, Tackling The Temptations of Technology seminar, has Mike and René sharing in churches and schools throughout Canada, messages for young people, and families with young children. Focusing on strategies for using technology and how to identify whether you are more likely to be negatively impacted by social media, offering solutions to help children, youth, and people of all ages who wish to control their technology, and practical approaches to controlling rather than being controlled by these powerful devices.
TOPICS COVERED
1. Social Deprivation
2. Attention Fragmentation
3. Sleep Deprivation
4. Addiction
5. How to manage your media consumption
6. The effects of electronic media on the brain
7. Dangers of digital distractions
8. Effective, healthier strategies for using technology
9. How low-to-no-tech education is getting higher marks
10. Proven, practical approaches to controlling rather than being controlled by your device.
THE PRESENTERS
Mike and René Lemon are the hosts for It Is Written Canada, a worldwide media ministry, featured on CTV and a dozen networks throughout Canada and around the world, to spotlight stories of lives transformed by the power of God.
Mike and René are both Certified Leaders for The Gottman Institute’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. They have been married since 1995 and have counselled married couples and those preparing for marriage while serving in ministry and education positions in Canada and South Africa.
Mike and René are passionate about faith, family, friends, fitness, and finishing the work of helping to “turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers” (Malachi 4:6).
“I learnt more about the harms of technology and spending more time with the people right in front of you.”
“It shed light on the long-term effects of seemingly harmless habits”