Upcoming Speaking Events

Public

October 25, 2017

What Every Parent Should Know: The Science Behind the Screens

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST

A talk for parents; i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming and Social Media are Changing Our Brains, Our Behavior and the Evolution of Our Species

Cleveland Elementary
1255 Eldon Road
North Vancouver, BC

Professional

November 30, 2017

Elder Friendly Community Network

8:30 AM PST

What every senior should know about the new wired world. Over the last 20 years, our relationship with screens have changed our relationships with each other. It’s not just about the grandkids! Come join Dr. Mari Swingle for a fun and unabashed exploration of what to expect & how behavior & personalities have changed ‘behind the screens’.

Victoria, BC

Public

November 30, 2017

Elder Friendly Community Network

10:30 AM PST | Parkwood

1:30 PM PST | The Wellesley

What every senior should know about the new wired world. Over the last 20 years, our relationship with screens have changed our relationships with each other. It’s not just about the grandkids! Come join Dr. Mari Swingle for a fun and unabashed exploration of what to expect & how behavior & personalities have changed ‘behind the screens’.

Victoria, BC

Past Speaking Events

TEDx East Vancouver

September 16, 2017, Vancouver
Presentation: Screen Based Technology: The Human Experiment?

9th World Environmental Education Congress

September 13, 2017, Vancouver
How mass globalization of screen based technologies have drastically shifted
our relationship with the environment and each other.

BC Association of Clinical Counselors: Education Workshop Series for Mental Health Professionals

September 7th, 2017
Workshop: Health and Happiness in the Digital Age Screen-Based Technology and the Developing Child

Together For Charity

Stockholm, Sweden. August 22, 2017
A talk for parents: Exploring the effects of screen based technologies on children’s development.

Adler University – BC Association of Clinical Counselors Skills for Mindful Living Series

Vancouver July 18th, 2017
Presentation: Understanding the social and clinical effects of excessive or non-complementary use of i-technology in clients: Signs of Trouble – Clinicians Fostering Health and Happiness in the Digital Age

Health Action Network

July 8, 7PM,  Memorial United Center for Peace, 1825 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver
i-Minds: Are our addictions to technology and social media altering our mental and physical health?

Choices Healthy Living Series

June 14 South Surrey, June 22 Kits (Vancouver)
With Farren Lander: Cautionary Warnings of EMF & Dr. Mari Swingle: i-Tech Addiction & Health and Happiness in the Digital Age

Public Silver Threads – 3 part Series for the elderly and technology

June 27, Victoria BC
Interacting in the new World: The good, the bad, the wired and the weird. Over the last 20 years, our relationship with screens have changed our relationships with each other. It’s not just about the grandkids! Come join Dr. Mari Swingle for a fun and unabashed exploration of what to expect & how behavior & personalities have changed ‘behind the screens’.

Write On Vancouver

Vancouver, May 13, 2017
Vancouver Public Library Reading and Book Signing.

Invited Lecture – Dr. Mari Swingle

Wednesday – April 26, 2017, Aeviro, Portugal
Addiction in the 21st Century: What Excessive Applications of i-Technology are Really Doing to our Brains

Workshop – Biofeedback Federation of Europe

April 24-29, 2017 Portugal
Internet Addiction: The Effects of Constant Connectivity on the Brain and Behaviour.

Children in Nature Conference

Poster Session & Book Signing
Vancouver, April 18-21, 2017

BC Humanist Association

March 5th, 2017
Technology and the Brain

Eaton Arrowsmith School UBC

Health and Happiness in the Digital Age
Dec 13th, 2016

White Rock Social Justice Film Society

Nov. 25, 2016
Commentary on Lo & Behold, Werner Herzog’s examination of the Internet and its dramatic Transformation of society and human interaction.

Public Lecture & Book Signing

Nov 17th, 2016
Health and Happiness in the Digital Age. Effects of Screen based technologies on the Brain. Vancouver, BC. Canada.
Public Lecture

Nov 9th, 2016 Djursholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Effects of i-Technology on the Brain and Behavior.

Public Lecture and Book Signing

Sept 27th, 2016
Burnaby Public Library

Fielding Graduate University, North-West Hub

June 11th, 2016
Leadership In An Increasingly Complex Environment –Scholar Practitioner Showcase. Technology the Brain & Behavior: An Introduction.
Integration Versus Interference: A brief introduction to positive, negative and completely neutral usage of screen based technologies.

San Francisco State University, The Institute for Holistic Health Studies, Department of Health Education San Francisco, US

April 6th, 2016
i-Tech On the Brain: Exploring the Effects of Method and Medium Inherent in the Use Screen Based Devices. Screens and interlinked screen based devices are everywhere, arguably now completely central to all modern life; including work and production, scholastics and research, social interaction and play. As expected, any such mass innovation brings magnificent and most welcomed change, but so too the unknown. In this free lecture, Dr. Mari Swingle, explores some of the more subtle or ignored effects of the digital age including systematic effects of screen based devices on our arousal templates and base neurophysiology affecting our health, intelligence, creativity, development, sexuality and socialization, and thus humanity itself.
“It’s not if we do or don’t use i-tech it’s ‘how’ and ‘why’ we use it” i-Minds

Marijuana on the Brain: Why “Just Say NO” No Longer Applies.

February 12th, 2016 Waldorf High School – Vancouver, BC, Canada
As many countries and districts embrace legalization, the fine print of the age effect of cannabis is being lost. In this presentation Dr. Mari takes us on a most timely exploration of the effect(s) of Marijuana on the developing brain (connectivity of grey matter, myelination, and the age effect: Adolescence & Youth VS Middle Age).

i-tech & You: Health, Happiness & Development in the Digital Age: Effects of technology on children’s social, emotional and cognitive health.

February 8th, 2016
Alpha Secondary School, Parent-Teacher Association, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Dr. Mari Swingle will take you on tour of research explaining the effects of i-technologies on children’s social, emotional and cognitive development and generalized mental and physical health. She will provide food for thought on what aspects of the digital age we should openly embrace, what components we should unequivocally reject, and those we ought to be overtly considering. Parents, guardians, students and staff welcome.

Presentations 2015:

(ISNR) International Society for Neurofeedback & Research

October 16th, 2015 Denver, US
Effects of i-Technology/Digital Media on the Brain (EEG) and Behavior
As consistent applications of i-tech become more and more of a societal norm, negative and excessive use is increasingly hard to differentiate from healthy or integrated usage. It is timely that clinicians become informed of methods and modalities that can aid them to determine if excessive usage of i-tech is affecting a client under their care.

Vancouver Public Library

October 1st, 2015
i-Minds: How Screen Life (Cell Phones, Computes, Gaming and Social Media) Are Changing Our Brains, Our Behavior and the Evolution of Our species. Come and explore the 21st century, the millennia of i-technology; iphones, pads & pods, computers and all screen based devices.  Though select readings and concepts from her new book i-Minds, Dr. Mari Swingle will give us food for thought on the influence of i-tech on children and families, friends, and lovers, work and learning, development and yes, brain function too. She will leave you thinking on what we should embrace, what we should reject, and many aspects of the digital era that are timely to debate.

NVSC (North Vancouver School District)

September 28th, 2015
iMinds: Exploring the Influence of i-Technology.
Discover what current research reveals about the impact of technology on the neurophysiology of children and youth. Dr. Mari Swingle explores research on the effects of the digital age on our children and youth. Digital media is a highly stimulating form of receiving information which has resulted in the brain being trained to want a higher level of arousal. The presentation will highlight what to look for when technology begins to interfere with social development and will explore positive steps we can all take to embrace technology.

The Integraal Gezondheids Centrum

June 1st, 2015, Bilthoven, Netherlands
i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media Are Changing Our Brains, Our Behaviour, and the Evolution of Our Species: A talk for parents, professionals and the general public exploring the dynamics of structured and unstructured learning; organized and unorganized play; the role of caregivers in socio-emotional development, and pathology with extra emphasis on anxiety, failed attachment, restriction and over-structure, learning disabilities, communication, sexuality as mitigated by excessive applications of i-technologies and the new online world.

Elgin Park Secondary School, Surrey School District: Pro-D Day Workshop for Teachers.

May 25th, 2015
Fostering Health and Happiness of Children and Youth in the Digital Age:  i-tech Interference versus Integration, the effect(s) of excessive technology use on the brain and physiology (socio-emotional and cognitive development), and the associated educational and mental health concerns excessive or inappropriate usage present for school aged children & youth. What teachers, as first line ‘activists’, can do to assist children, youth and their parents negotiate the new i-mediated world in health and happiness.

Austin Texas: AAPB (Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback)

March 13th, 2015
i-Tech on the Brain: An Examination of the Effects of Excessive use of Digital Media on the EEG

Rome Italy: BFE (Biofeedback federation of Europe)

March 26th, 2015
Three Presentations:
Alpha Deregulation Patterns in Children and youth Associated with Excessive Usage of i-technologies (gaming, texting, social media etc.)
EEG Deregulation Patterns in Adults Diagnosed with an Internet Addiction: The Evolution
Pattern di Disregoazione delle Alpha in Bambini e Giovani Associato con l’utilizzo delle technologie informatiche (giochi, sms, social media, ecc.).

WEBINARS

New Mind L &L Special Speaker Series i-Tech on the Brain

June 8, 2016
A Webinar Exploring the Effects of Method and Medium Inherent in the Use Screen Based Devices. Screens and interlinked screen based devices are everywhere, arguably now completely central to all modern life; including work and production, scholastics and research, social interaction and play. As expected, any such mass innovation brings magnificent and most welcomed change, but so too the unknown.
In this Webinar, Dr. Mari Swingle, will present her research on the overt connections of excessive usage of screen based devices to depression, anxiety, ADHD, and obsessive compulsive behavior as well as the more subtle or ignored effects including systematic effects of screen based devices on our arousal templates and base neurophysiology affecting our health, intelligence, creativity, development, sexuality and socialization.

Professional BFE (Biofeedback foundation of Europe) Webinars for Professionals

July, 16, 2015
i-Tech on the Brain: Adults
Our world is changing and so are we. This webinar will explore some of the effects we are seeing on the brain and in behavior directly related to excessive applications of digital media otherwise known as i-tech. The webinar will present variations in the EEG (electroencephalography), associated symptom clusters, as well as how and why individuals are drawn into excessive usage patterns in the first place. Lastly we will explore what clinicians can do to assist clients at risk, as well as those already fitting the IA or Internet Addiction profile. Click here for details

Professional BFE (Biofeedback foundation of Europe) Webinars for Professionals

July, 23rd, 2015
i-Tech on the Brain: Children
For adults over 40, problems do not stem from if they do or do not use digital technologies, but rather how and why they do or do not use them. It is arguably different for children. For those born directly into the digital world there appear to be substantial differences in cognitive, creative, and social-emotional development and related brain wave architecture associated with usage patterns. This webinar will explore the current presenting differences, some of the suspected causes, as well as some of the first concrete changes emerging on the EEG. The webinar will conclude with suggestions on how and when (and when not) to integrate the use of i-technology to ensure healthy development of children and youth. Click here for details

Professional AAPB (Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback) Webinar

May 7th, 2015
Alterations in Electroencephalographic Patterns Associated with Excessive Usage of i-technologies (e.g., gaming, social media, texting etc.).