Is your phone pulling your attention away from the things that are most meaningful to you?
Did isolation during the pandemic cause you to be more compulsive about reaching for your phone?
Does it feel like time is of the essence and you’re not spending it in the way that serves your deepest truth?
Are you ready to get out from behind your screens to build true, deep, messy, beautiful community?
“Working with Christina has been incredible support to me. She has a lovely way of helping me see what I need to live with more agency and energy. I was drawn to her style immediately—warm, inviting, positive and whip-smart. She paved the way for me to identify useful tools that I now use daily. It would be no exaggeration to say that she has changed my life for the better.”
— Rachel Fleischman, San Francisco, CA | www.blisscounseling.com
The global pandemic found us more reliant on screen-based communication than ever before.
Are you ready to find some balance?
In order to spend less time on our phones we need to reclaim our lives in ways that greatly transcend tools and tips.
This is a personal growth project that is most powerful when held in community.
“I had the privilege of attending two of Christina’s events. Each time I witnessed her natural ability to tune in to the participants and meet them with gracious acceptance. As an attendee it was eye-opening to acknowledge the different motivations of using or abusing the technologies at my fingertips. Christina creates an atmosphere or ‘holding space’ for her attendees allowing them to enter the present moment — a beautiful gateway for deep connection for thoughts, emotions and body wisdom. I highly recommend her workshops, retreats and panel discussions and presentations.”
— Bettina Jones, Seattle, WA | www.virtualclickworks.net
Presenting:
Untether Together
A Rescue from Smartphone Fixation
5 weeks of in-person collaborative support
In-Person in Downtown Seattle
Sundays from 4:00 - 5:30 from January 14 - February 11, 2024
Hi! My name is Christina and I am passionate about supporting you to right-size your relationship with technology.
Let’s get real: we all struggle to put our phones down and step away from our screens (myself included)!
I’m here to help you celebrate your humanity, presence, and capacity to connect with others.
Every element of my digital wellbeing work is intentionally designed to invite you back into intention, presence and calm, offering tools to soothe stress states related to high tech usage.
We need a reminder of what it feels like to have more spaciousness to reflect on what we'd rather be doing with the 18 hours a day many of us spend on digital platforms.
Join me for this 5-week guided mutual support experience to learn to find tech-life balance – not by rejecting technology – but by embracing evidence-based practices designed to help you make the most of your offline hours, calm your nervous system and buoy your emotional health.
Together We Will . . .
Remember what it’s like to get off Zoom and sit together in a room making eye contact! *
Support each other to set intentions and goals to stay electronically connected on our own terms to liberate us from digital compulsion and over-use. I won’t be lecturing you! I’ll provide the tools and conversion prompts and we will co-create a fun, supportive space.
Set you up for success to enjoy a screen-free evenings after our gatherings.
Learn how awareness is the opposite of distraction - and the key to a healthier relationship with technology
Meditate, ground, move, laugh and learn. There may also be singing and dancing. Just sayin’.
Empower each other to rediscover our passions, values and priorities. I believe that this is the pathway to digital balance. Because why would you spend less time on your phone if you’re unclear about what to do instead?
“I always love working with Christina, but our group dynamics were really special too. The biggest change by far has been creating a conscious relationship with my technology. When I choose to binge out on it, it's a conscious choice to absorb info, zone out, or connect with others. Christina has an innate ability to read the room and create containers for real change to happen, which makes every experience feel uniquely tailored to the needs of each individual and the group as a whole.”
— Hannah Exner, Seattle, WA | www.threemooncollective.com
Your Investment
For $300, you will receive:
Over 7 hours (1.5 hour meetings spread over 5 weeks) with a close-knit group of like-minded people exploring your own reasons for putting your phone down and looking up at the world around you
Teaching and support from a leading expert in the emerging field of Digital Wellbeing (that’s me!)
All course materials and resources
Weekly individual email support to help you reach your goals
And, hey, if you are struggling financially, reach out to me—I am committed to making this offering accessible to everyone.
Conversely, if you are in a comfortable financial spot, please consider expanding your investment to $400. The extra $100 will help provide scholarships to those who could use this kind of support but don’t currently have the means.
I’m limiting enrollment to an intimate group of 8 people so that everyone has a chance to speak, listen, know and be known.
Because the pandemic is not over for everyone, we will follow the COVID Safety Policies I use in my therapy office.
“I adore Christina. She comes to the group with a world of education and plethora of knowledge on the subject. But she's also passionate, warm, and welcoming. She creates a beautiful community and safe space to grow. She has a gentle, warm, and calming energy, while also pushing you out of your comfort zone into your best self. She challenges you to ask the hard questions that result in healing and transformation. I have created awareness along with mindfulness. I'm aware of why and how I utilize social media, along with the triggers that snowball into a social media trance. I'm much more mindful about how I create and consume content, and choose to prioritize family time away from my screen. I'm so grateful for the community Christina has created, and the safe space to work through these challenges. Digital mindfulness is not a commonly discussed topic, and yet SO important. Thank you!”
— Stephanie Hunter-Dines, Seattle, WA www.stephaniehunterdines.com
My digital wellbeing gatherings are trauma informed and social justice-oriented, with a commitment to creating as comfortable a space as possible for people of all ages, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, sizes and spiritual traditions.
“Christina is available, present, knowledgeable, witty, non-judging and is great at building a safe space. I am more mindful of the urges towards picking up my phone and even when it feels habitual - I am able to notice that and then CHOOSE whether to continue or put it down. I use it a lot less in the evenings now - due to the digital well-being functions I am using on my cell phone to make the screen gray and put it in Do Not Disturb mode and leaving the phone in other rooms.”
— Robyn Beckman, Port Orchard, WA | www.mindfulnesswithrobyn.com
Is this therapy?
Nope.
Although I am a psychotherapist, it is important to me to delineate therapy from the teaching, facilitation and advising I do in my digital wellbeing work.
While therapy does focus on both past experience and future-oriented goal setting, it is also a form of healing practiced by highly trained professionals with deep attunement to, and tools to treat trauma, depression, anxiety, oppression and other forms of emotional suffering.
Screen Time Lifeline offerings are supportive, structured and trauma-informed, but they are not therapy.
If you are needing support for mental health struggles, please go to my therapy webpage and contact me for a referral from my network of excellent and gifted therapists.
If in our work together, I sense that you could benefit from therapy, I will gently encourage you to seek the support of a licensed mental health professional.
To avoid dual relationships, I do not accept clients of my Screen Time Lifeline work as clients in my therapy practice unless we have previously worked together in therapy.
More About Your Guide
CHRISTINA MALECKA is the creator, facilitator and instigator Screen Time Lifeline. A community organizer turned Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Christina brings 30 years of experience with change-making, group facilitation, mindfulness training and workshop development. She loves creating nurturing experiences and holding space for people, and was inspired to create Screen Time Lifeline after her own profound experience with digital fasting and re-set.