Mary Martin
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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services
A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services
Although the shift did not happen that quickly, there is certainly evidence to suggest that the role of mindfulness within psychological treatment is here to stay and will only increase as times goes on.
Lynn Rossy • Mindfulness: More Than Just a New Technique
Mindfulness and therapy
reading habit may be one of the useful strategies for protecting mental health via increasing self-compassion, particularly in people with depressive temperament.
https://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/1/1/10.20935/MHealthWellB6176
who knew? and
AI and collaboration
Csikszentmihalyi’s research suggests that flow is conducive to optimal experience . But it doesn’t tell us anything about whether it is conducive to optimal performance . So look for flow when you want to feel better, but not necessarily when you want to do better.
Barbara Gail Montero • The true expert does not perform in a state of effortless ‘flow’ | Aeon Essays
“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”
Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’
consciousness and
But the future is not a self-fulfilling prophecy - 8 billion people on this planet have a voice and that carries far more weight than one person with 8 billion dollars. We just forgot how to exercise it.
Theo Priestley • Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future
Futures thinking and
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.orgnervous system and dogs
Novel technologies like artificial intelligence or neurotechnology are expected to have social implications in the future. As they are in the early stages of development, it is challenging to identify potential negative impacts that they might have on society. Typically, assessing these effects relies on experts, and while this is essential, there... See more
On The Social Complexity of Neurotechnology: Designing A Futures Workshop For The Exploration Of More Just Alternative Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
Futures thinking and