Move from passive consumption to meaningful cultural life.

What I can help you with:

We have more entertainment than ever — yet attention spans shrink and emotional connection weakens.

In this strand, we:

• Rebuild music and film as shared experiences, not background noise
• Create family listening rituals (an album night, not algorithm drift)
• Introduce children to music without passwords, subscriptions or persuasive feeds
• Reduce streaming dependency without creating power struggles
• Help the whole family move from extraction to engagement
• Music without algorithm-driven streaming – The Sovereign Sound

Less content. Chosen well. Experienced deeply.

Separate fear from fact so you can make confident decisions.

What I can help you with:

“Won’t my child fall behind?”
“Don’t they need tech early to compete?”
“Isn’t this just the future?”

Drawing on research such as The Flickering Mind and my background as a former Apple Specialist, I help you:

• Understand what the evidence actually says about early tech exposure
• Debunk the “left behind” narrative
• Decode how tech companies cultivate lifetime customers
• Evaluate school tech policies with clarity
• Make decisions rooted in long-term development, not social panic
• Bust the myth that children must choose between digital or analogue learning — introduce the Bi-Literate Brain concept from Dr. Maryanne Wolf, showing how each medium has its strengths and must be taught at specific ages: screens for coding, paper for literacy and deeper thinking, etc.

Confidence replaces anxiety.

Equip children to stand firm — without feeling isolated.

What I can help you with:

“But everyone else has one.”

I grew up low-tech and entered a hyper-digital culture as the outsider — before becoming highly tech fluent. That experience informs this work.

In this strand, we:

• Develop language a child can use when challenged
• Plan phased device introductions (if and when appropriate)
• Build alternative social pathways that don’t revolve around smartphones
• Strengthen identity beyond tech status
• Prepare teenagers for transition points (secondary school, university)

Low-tech childhood does not equal low-skill adulthood.

Choose the right device for the right context.

What I can help you with:

We are not biologically designed for a 24/7 infinite stream of input inside a 5 x 3 inch screen.

In this strand, we:

• Categorise communication channels (interpersonal vs impersonal)
• Redesign our ‘mobile setup’ that puts real relationships first
• Separate essential tools (banking, travel, utilities) from distraction loops
• Create device boundaries for work, home and travel
• Reduce anxiety caused by digital overload
• Highlight E-Ink devices as a way to protect eye health

Technology returns to its role as tool — not 24/7 norm

Identify where our life is being processed — and reclaim space.

What I can help you with:

The ‘Digital Chop Block’ is the place where we keep chopping moments into productivity units. Notifications, schedules, constant micro-tasks.

Few of us know when we even built our Digital Chop Block. We just know it’s not sustainable and we all crave a different experience of time that give energy, rather than extracts energy.

In this strand, we:

• Map your personal or family “Digital Chop Block”
• Identify stress triggers and automation loops
• Redesign daily rhythm to include unscheduled time
• Create device-free structural pauses
• Restore attention, presence and pace.

This is definitely not therapy. This is an artist sharing insights that I have accidentally become an expert in over the course of 10–15 years. After touring the Super Connected live shows for three years, this work evolved naturally from meeting families after my shows and seeing just how much support is needed.

I work directly with anyone 18 years and older. Most of my work focuses on young parents, helping them strike a balance between staying up-to-date with technology while remaining fully in control of it—so they can also enjoy the more natural sides of life. I also support older adults who want to understand technology in the context of it sometimes being a barrier, whether to services or to communicating with their grandchildren.

Some people come to me over a long period and check in now and again. It is not similar to anything like Alcoholics Anonymous, but it is entirely up to each individual or couple and their needs. It can be short-term, depending on the support required. But certainly, for families with multigenerational children—often toddlers who model themselves on older siblings freely engaging with technology—this can lead to a longer-term relationship with me. It feels to them like they need that extra help, even if it’s just to talk to somebody who understands the difficulties of navigating a family who are all in different stages of digital dependency.

No, I do not work with children directly. I work with parents who have children under the age of seven, and only when the parents are interested in expanding their understanding of how to support their children. The goal is to ensure children are not pushed around by the companies that make devices and apps. By building a strong foundation early, children grow up with a solid footing, nurtured by their family, their immediate environment, and their own unique spirit.  Rather than by tech companies.

A digital detox often sounds like a weekend experience, which is useful for many people. But it is not truly a detox from digital life, nor is it rehab from digital life. I lead a digital life, and leading one is not inherently bad. The problem arises when we cannot control our intake of digital media. Unlike a glass of wine, where we can measure consumption with our own eyes, or a cigarette, where we know how long it lasts, digital media through a pocket device is invisible. We cannot see how much we are consuming. Addressing this requires special tools I developed over years, informed by my experience at a detoxification facility in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. These tools allow technology to serve as a tool, rather than me becoming a tool of technology.

Yes. Sovereign Sound is included for any parents who want to explore giving their children a device loaded with a diverse, offline music library with no Internet connection. I am not against streaming for music or film in general, but I strongly believe that before the age of seven, it’s important for a child to engage with music as a single, focused experience—without passwords, subscriptions, accounts, or advertising. Sovereign Sound offers a curated collection that nurtures this early listening experience. It is available to any parents with children under the age of eight.