Minder Telefoon, Meer Leven - Haagsch College
Endless scrolling on our phones – we all do it, and more often than we’d like. From just sending a quick message to mindlessly opening Insta or a news app yet again. And suddenly an hour has gone by. We want things to be different, but hardly anyone really manages to break free from their phone. So how do we get loose from the thing that increasingly runs our lives? And how do you stop growing children from falling under the spell of the addictive smartphone?
During the theatre evening Minder Telefoon, Meer Leven, psychologist and young father Thijs Launspach shows you what Big Tech’s attention-devouring apps are doing to us. And how you actually can have a healthy relationship with your phone. Because we deserve a life with fewer interruptions and more attention for the things that really matter – and that goes double for our children.
Thijs Launspach is a psychologist and writer, and an expert on the impact of technology on our mental health. For years he has been fighting what the addictive design of algorithms does to our psychology. He wrote Smartphonevrij Opgroeien (no. 1 in the Bestseller 60), Asociale Media and Je bent al genoeg. He writes a column in the AD and makes the podcast Normale mensen bestaan niet.
The evening is presented by Thomas van Zijl, journalist and presenter for Haagsch College and BNR Nieuwsradio, among others
The evening Minder Telefoon, Meer Leven is a theatre production by Haagsch College.