Untangling Technology
Devices are here to stay…
How will you navigate, guide and prioritize the use of devices in your family’s life this Summer and beyond?
This 4 Week Course will guide you in creating realistic boundaries and developing balanced relationships with technology for yourself and with your people.
join Carrie Contey, PhD
Only $250 to stop the swirling, gain clarity and put the devices in their rightful place.
“I have found SO MUCH MORE PEACE around the tech time in our house after finally setting some boundaries for myself around when and how my son uses his tech time! I am lighter, breezier, happier (and so is he!) after being mindful of how ‘angsty’ I was around the issue and what boundaries I needed set in order for me to feel less angst. Feeling sooooo happy to be in this better space.”
“HELP! The screens and devices are driving me crazy.”
Do you find yourself agonizing over the use of screens and technology in you and your family’s life?
If yes, you are definitely not alone. This is a topic that has parents everywhere feeling frustrated and overwhelmed.
It makes sense that things feel confusing.
In the blink of an eye, screen technology has become a ubiquitous and essential part of daily life.
This is uncharted territory.
You didn’t grow up with this kind of technology and your kids don't know life without it. It's hard to know what to allow, what limits to set and where to turn for good information.
Of course you have questions and concerns.
* How much is too much?
* When is it ok for my child to have a smartphone?
* What is all of this screen time doing to their brains?
* Will the power struggles ever end?
* How do I keep up so I can keep them safe?
Let me help you sort out the challenges of technology and family life.
I have worked with thousands of parents over the past 20 years and this topic is one of my specialties. Allow me to guide you with useful information and tools that will give you the clarity, confidence and peace of mind you desire.
Navigating boundaries and technology for you and your family is the work of modern parenting.
This four part, in depth, course will teach you how to:
examine what's really happening with you and your children when it comes to devices and screen time.
Think about the ways technology serves you as a family, and how it hinders you as a family.
Create boundaries and guidelines for yourself and your children.
Minimize power struggles and meltdowns, and maximize healthy connections and communication
And, most importantly…
Empower your children to know and trust themselves.
In this realm, and beyond.
You will leave feeling clearer, calmer and more confident in your role as the family guide in navigating the ever-changing technology landscape.
“OMG you have no idea how helpful it is!! You are amazing and are giving us a HUGE gift. My anxiety around this is sky high and if nothing else I am taking that I have to manage my anxiety before engaging around this. So, right now, as I was asking him to stop, I offered to read to him, and the disengagement went much smoother. I screw up most of the time it seems, but occasionally I get it right. Seriously, though, THANK YOU. This is just what we need!!”
“Thanks for another great call last night! I feel so inspired after each call. Like I CAN be a GREAT mom who handles screen time situations with ease and love. ”
How does it work?
Untangling Technology will be taught in four 75 minute sessions. This allows you time and space to reflect, experiment and integrate the learnings.
Each of the four calls will be broken up into these three segments:
First, I teach.
Big ideas, new perspectives, practical tools, essential parenting/family life skills. It'll be different every call and each builds upon the last. What I share will expand your mind and leave you feeling inspired and wanting more!
Next, you write.
Each week I will give you a handout with intentional prompts and questions that will get you thinking. This is where the magic happens. This is where YOU discover and create what's right for you and your family.
Finally, I answer a smattering of your burning questions.
Applying the teachings to real life scenarios is what will deepen the learnings and allow them to take hold. You send me your questions and I will curate a selection of “greatest hits“ based on what comes in. Each week I'll make sure to share something relevant to these four different age blocks: 0-4 year olds, 5-9 year olds, 10-14 year olds and 15+ year olds.
Learn how to untangle the inevitable knots that technology brings up along the way.
Week 1: Family Life: Past, Present & Future
First, we need to set the stage.
During this call I'll offer you a fresh perspective on human development and your role as a parent. I'll also weave in some basic brain information that will blow your own mind wide open in the best ways possible. You'll leave feeling clearer on what you value, what you want to model for your children and your intentions for family life.
Week 2: Be Curious, Observe and Explore
Next, we'll step back from the day-to-day of family life and take a good look at everyone's techno-habits -- Yours, theirs and the family as a whole.
Through teaching and simple writing prompts, I'll help you get a realistic picture of what's currently happening. This is the key to knowing how to proceed. After this module, I'll send you off with questions and conversation starters so you can practice your observation and communication skills with your children. This will serve you now and going forward as a parent.
Week 3: Guidelines and Experiments
Let's create!
During our time together, I'll guide you in creating a customized set of guidelines. I'll also give you practical suggestions on how to run experiments to know if what you are playing with is right for you and your family. It's different stuff for different ages and phases, I'll make sure to give guidance on each.
Week 4: Launching them into the world
Modeling, listening, communicating, clarifying, empathizing, guiding... these are some of the essentials of modern parenting.
And these skills are what will safeguard your children as they move into life beyond the growing years. There's no way to prepare them for the technological world that is emerging. It's changing too fast. However, you can model clear boundaries and self-knowing. You can teach them what it means to be a healthy, aligned, compassionate human. You can be the change you wish to see.
Let me guide you,
so you can guide them,
so they can grow to know and trust themselves.
Now and later.
“You alone have helped me be a more conscious parent on everything: from the details of transitions and screen boundaries, to parenting the brain, bringing child development awareness to my expectations, and playing the long game in prioritizing bonding and relationship. I think you are an endless fountain of wisdom, and I always hang on your every word. I’m not sure how you have the energy and insight to do it, but you’ve figured it out. And you do it so beautifully. Let me just say how blessed I am to benefit and stand in your light.”
“You are the single most important influence on my parenting/motherhood life. You are magic. Just wanted to say that.”
Meet Your Mentor
Host of the Knot Parenting Podcast, Carrie Contey, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker, educator and mentor.
Carrie has spent the last two decades guiding, supporting and inspiring parents to know and trust themselves, deeply. And as a result, there are thousands of parents all over the world who feel skillfully equipped, personally fulfilled, and authentically connected with their people in all phases of development.
Carrie received her doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis on prenatal and perinatal psychology. Carrie has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, NPR, CBS radio, and in many publications including Time, Parenting, and The Boston Globe.
Summer is approaching, now is the perfect time to tune in and tune up your whole family’s relationship to technology!
All the juicy details
Four 75 min. Pre-recorded sessions
Each hour will begin with settling, learning, self- reflection and then live questions.
The investment
Untangling Technology is $250 per family. That’s less than 1 session with me or most therapists and includes an entire month of support. You’ll get your concerns addressed, end your screen time challenges and feel more confident as a parent around technology, boundaries and family life in general. This course weaves together all of my very best stuff and I am so excited to share it with you.
ACCESS to call RECORDINGS
All sessions will be recorded and hosted on our online learning platform Thinkific along with our handouts and worksheets so you can return to them at any time.
Q+A
During the LIVE calls there will be an opportunity to have your questions answered. Carrie will take questions from participants and together they will untangle the complicated situations that arise with modern technology. Each question/answer will help you learn the different ways you could handle, experiment with and consider your own challenging moments.
All of my very best stuff.
Tools, guidance, perspective, inspiration, And insight
There will be a lot of clarifying, steadying, finding the gifts, holding the heart-breaks and discovering ways to evolve through whatever comes our way. I see this as a golden opportunity for growth, depth and expansion.
Come with me, let’s get untangling.
What is it worth to untangle and clarify all of the complicated emotions and situations that technology brings up?
In just 4 short weeks, you’ll learn how to be more clear, more confident and at ease with your boundaries around technology and family life.
“Untangling is exactly what it’s all about.
Thank you for sharing your particular genius and walking us all home in this tangle of life. Carrie gives us faith that we are with each other for all the right lessons and she reminds us to step back and appreciate the ride.”
Let me mentor you to Untangle Technology
Give yourself 4 weeks to learn new ideas, gain perspective, and deepen your self-awareness. You’ll build invaluable boundary skills, gather tools, and feel confident and clear around technology and family life.
Imagine a life where you feel confident and skilled in handling the most challenging moments of technology and family life.
Join me.
Enrollment is open
Enroll today to get started on making family life your own.
Value of over $1,000
Only $250
Questions?
I'm here to help! Please send me an email so that we can explore if this Mentorship is right for you.
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I thank the universe for placing the right combination of atoms, molecules, and chemicals in the right place at right time that you were the result. Life is hard enough, for me you are always making mine easier.”