Social Media platforms are contributing to us being less well as individuals and entire societies while also providing meaningful ways for us to connect, explore, share, and experience cultural exchange - so how to we hold the both/and? Intentional, conscious, collective examination!

Overview - Understanding the ME in Social Media

You are invited to immerse yourself in an experiential, educational and creative playshop focused on increasing your understanding and conscious awareness of digital relating.

This playshop is for those who feel compelled to examine their relationship with Social Media and other online communication pathways. You will be provided with a spiral experience that empowers you to gently and intentionally explore the not-so-subtle impacts of digital relating on your wellbeing, such as:

physiological and psychological responses to 'scrolling'
'siloed vulnerability' and vulnerability hangover
polarization and in-group/out-group traps
the personal authenticity crisis
AI counterfeit substance
outrage or 'ragebait' and its powerful impact on the limbic brain
comparison spirals and our tendency toward negative self reflection
the fear of missing out in the age of community breakdown and individual isolation
the long-term brain impacts of normalized distraction (notifications, tags, mentions, comments)

In understanding and naming some of these common experiences, you will have the chance to come to terms with our unconscious, unboundaried and potentially unsafe tacit agreements with Social Media/digital relating.

During our time together, you will be provided educational materials sourced from cutting edge neuroscience and sociology (as well as a little ancient wisdom!). We will work as a group to collaboratively identify and name both the value and negative impacts of Social Media (paradox walking), move through thoughtful and cathartic conscious inquiry in dyads and small groups, and engage in a creative values-mapping exercise utilizing an Intentional Creativity® approach. WE will also create an 'Intentional Use' card that includes a list of the values you wish to draw upon when engaging in Social Media spaces, that can be tucked into your smart phone case or taped onto your laptop.

By the completion of this daylong playshop, you will have accessed key insights into your Social Media and digital relating habits. You will be well-resourced with practical steps you can take to go forward in more conscious and sovereign ways of connecting and communicating online!

Registration Details

Investment: $66 per person (includes all creative supplies, snacks, and refreshments).

Connect with me via email at ambersamaya@gmail.com if you have reduced access to finances at this time and would like to participate

Payment Methods: Payment can be made by clicking the 'Get Tickets' button on this page or by sending e-transfer to ambersamaya@gmail.com (e-transfer password: social media)

Workshop Requirements: Show up in comfortable clothes, bring a water bottle, a journal, and your smartphone or computer!

Date and Time: Saturday, June 20, 2026

Location: Selkie Temple - details will be provided at registration

We acknowledge that we live and work on the homeland and territories of the Tla’amin People. We honour the land, the Tla’amin People, and their treaty and continually seek to strengthen our relationship and responsibilities to them as guests in the territory.

Social Media and ME - Cultivating Consciousness and Sovereignty in Digital Relating

Social Media and ME - Cultivating Consciousness and Sovereignty in Digital Relating

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Amber Samaya Gould

Amber Samaya Gould

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