Intentional Attention: Reclaiming Autonomy From the Machine
“How we attend to things is a moral act.” -Iain McGilchrist
Reclaim autonomy.
Intentional Attention is a workshop about realigning your relationship with technology so that your attention is actually yours.
We all know how the attention economy operates—how it lives inside of us, how we live inside of it. Beginning with social media and accelerating with generative AI, this ever-intensifying race to the bottom of our brain stems has shaped not just what we pay attention to, but how we attend to anything at all. Our relationship with technology does not have to be this way.
This isn't a lecture and it isn't a list of life hacks. It's a guided experience that moves through feeling, thought, and action—beginning with meditative music, deepening through honest self-inquiry, and closing with personal commitments you make to yourself and to the room.
You will walk away with a clearer sense of the gap between how you currently attend to your life and how you know you should—and with the philosophical clarity, practical tools, and felt experience to work toward closing that gap.