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How to Break Up with your phone: A book & Support group

 

A 6 week Book Club Series to help reclaim your attention with Sarah Baumert

Starts March 23rd
Online via Zoom: Sundays, 5:30pm - 6:30pm CST

We will meet: March 23th, April 6th, 13th, 27th, May 4th, and for a post series 45 minute check in on May 18th 

Do you feel distracted, busy or stressed much of the time?

Are you on your phone more than you’d like?

Do you find it hard to make time for what you truly value?

This support / book group will utilize Catherine Price’s 30-day plan for decreasing phone use as well as experiential awareness practice to change our phone habits. 

Price’s curriculum in her book How to Break Up with Your Phone points to strengthening our self-awareness as our best tool for breaking out of the addiction of our phones.

"The point is not to punish yourself. We’re trying to resolve discrepancies between how we say we want to live our lives, and how we are actually living our lives…Our goal is not abstinence; it’s consciousness." - Catherine Price

Each week, in addition to following the protocol of the book, I will offer a 10-20 minute awareness meditation and/or movement practice. 

WE WILL REFLECT ON:

  • What are you seeking when you reach for your phone?

  • What are you avoiding when you reach for your phone?

  • What can you learn about yourself through your phone habits?

  • What do you truly want to be paying attention to?


CLARIFICATION: Breaking up with your phone does not mean throwing it away and never using it. Breaking up with your phone means that you’re ending the enmeshed, out of control aspects of your relationship and hopefully replacing it with more of a healthy friendship.

WHAT'S THE GROUP LIKE: 

Tools and practices we will use:

Check -ins / Journaling / Sharing with a small group or partner / Sharing with the whole group / Noticing / Meditation / Open Movement / Awareness Through Movement / Discussion of the Book

We’ll walk through the four weeks of the phone breakup plan together, with the goal of creating new relationships with our smartphones that feel good.

I don’t know about you all, but I personally feel like my own need for better boundaries with technology has never been stronger. So LET’S CREATE SOME BOUNDARIES.

This support group will be a lot more fun if you do it with other people, so invite a friend, and let’s do it.

"There is nothing wrong with mindless distraction. There are times when zoning out on your phone is exactly what you wanna do. What is problematic - and what we’re trying to avoid is letting the state of mindless distraction become our default."  - Catherine Price

DATES AND INFO: 

March 23rd - May 18th
Sundays @ 5:30pm CST
Online classes will be taught on zoom*

See full schedule of meetings here.

Visual calendar of important dates can be found below

$50 - $125: an invitation to give an amount that will help you show up and follow through.

This group thrives on group attendance! If you sign up, please plan to attend at least 3 of the 5 sessions. You will be asked to find an accountability buddy within the group. Consider inviting others in your household or friends to join you for this series. Household discounts will be offered. Live classes will be recorded for those who need to miss a session.

Book not included. I recommend ordering the book from your local bookstore and purchasing the revised 2025 edition. 

The course includes short “homework” assignments from the book every day. This is a time commitment outside of our weekly meeting.

“Stop Doomscrolling. Start Living.”

Connect with like-minded individuals and share your experiences.

“If you’re a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book.” —Jonathan Haidt, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Anxious Generation

About Sarah: Sarah Baumert is known for her thorough and diverse instruction and her dedication to holding space for individual personal discovery. She facilitates whole body alignment in her students as a way for them to access balance, strength, mobility and physical clarity. Through sensory rich movement experiments, she guides students in cultivating mindfulness and deepening their learning process. She works with a variety of populations including athletes, seniors, artists, dancers, musicians, and those experiencing injury or surgery recovery. Sarah is a certified Yoga Therapist, an Authorized Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Teacher and Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Practitioner. Her objective is to acquire the most effective skills for helping her students live with less pain and more pleasure in their bodies.

I don’t know about you all, but I personally feel like my own need for better boundaries with technology has never been stronger. So LET’S CREATE SOME BOUNDARIES.

This support group will be a lot more fun if you do it with other people, so invite a friend, and let’s do it!

What people are saying about Sarah's teaching:

“I am so grateful that you continue to provide these life giving, body strengthening and soul nurturing classes. They are like an inner meditation for every cell in my body! - Rosie

What I love so much about your classes: when the unexpected happens, like a jigsaw puzzle falling into place. Keep surprising me! - Jane

I find your classes to be exceptionally supportive and illuminating, and I’ve so benefitted from the learning and the unlearning I’ve experienced. Drop by drop, this practice and what I’ve received from your teaching have radically changed how I am in my body and in my life. These online Feldenkrais courses have become some of my favorite practices ever, and I’m excited every time you propose a new series. - Betsy”