Mindful Media: A Modular Program for Digital Well-Being & Media Literacy
Mindful Media is a modular education program within my consulting practice designed to support schools, families, and youth-serving organizations navigating digital life with clarity, care, and shared responsibility.
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Rather than offering fixed talks or one-size-fits-all curricula, Mindful Media is structured as a set of interconnected content modules. These modules can stand alone or be combined and adapted across professional learning, community workshops, youth programs, speaking engagements, and longer-term partnerships depending on audience, goals, and context.
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Each module reflects the same core approach: equity-centered, trauma-informed, research-grounded, and attentive to youth development, while each focusing on a distinct dimension of media, technology, and digital life.
Foundations of Mindful Media
The Mindful Media foundational module introduces the core concepts that anchor the entire program. It helps communities zoom out to understand how media systems (not just content or screens) shape young people's learning, well-being, identity, relationships, and participation.
This module establishes shared language and framing around digital life, surfaces key tensions such as rights and responsibility, and supports communities in moving from reactive responses toward more thoughtful, developmentally grounded engagement.
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The foundational module can be:
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An entry point for professional learning or community education
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A shared starting place across roles (educators, caregivers, youth)
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The foundation for multi-session learning or program development​​
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Behind the Screen
Platforms, Power, and Design
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Behind the Screen examines how digital platforms are designed and how those design choices shape attention, behavior, relationships, and participation. Rather than treating technology as neutral, this module focuses on incentives, algorithms, policies, and systems of power that influence everyday digital life.
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This module supports critical awareness and shared understanding of how platforms work and why that understanding matters for young people's learning, well-being, and agency.
Flip the Script
Rethinking Rules, Bans, and Your Organization's Culture
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Flip the Script focuses on how schools, families, and youth-serving organizations approach rules, restrictions, and norms around technology use.
Instead of centering compliance or control, this module explores how communities can intentionally shape digital culture.
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The emphasis is on aligning technology decisions with values, balancing safety with trust and participation, and building shared responsibility for young people's digital well-being.
Lowkey, High Stakes
Understanding Youth Culture, Identity, and Online Expression
Lowkey, High Stakes centers youth digital culture focusing on how humor, trends, language, platforms, and participation shape identity, belonging, and relationships.
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This module helps adults and young people better understand each other’s experiences of digital life, while creating space for conversations about norms, pressures, creativity, and resilience. It is grounded in respect for youth voice and avoids moral panic in favor of curiosity, context, and connection.
