Apps, texts, status updates, and profiles - we communicate, socialize and even date via our social media networks. But what are we missing while we wait for the next text or update? What do we miss out on if we're always logged in?
On Friday September 25, Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon will host a webinar about the intersection of technology and love. She will discuss how our digital age has added enormous complexity to relational communication and romance. Dr. Solomon will provide participants with information and ideas about how to help individuals and couples use social media to enhance and expand their love lives, not replace them. Specifically, participants will learn how to:
- Consider how technology is influencing how we think about and experience love including common misconceptions, timeless questions, and recent trends
- Engage clients in dialog about modern romance in a way that avoids simplistic formulations and easy answers
- Create a therapeutic environment in which clients, especially emerging adults, can quiet the external noise in order to grow their relational self-awareness and create authentic and healthy intimate relationships
Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, and she is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to her clinical work with couples and individuals and her clinical supervision with gradate trainees, she teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level at Northwestern University. She teaches Intimate Relations I in the Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy (MSMFT) program and Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101. This innovative and popular undergraduate course has received local, national, and international media attention. Dr. Solomon has published a number of articles and book chapters, she presents to a variety of audiences, and she consults frequently with the media on topics related to marriage and family, including Oprah Winfrey Network (#OWNshow), O Magazine, The Atlantic, CBS Early Show, and NPR.
Dr. Solomon is the author of Brave, Deep, Intimate: 20 lessons to Get You Ready for the Love of a Lifetime (New Harbinger) which will be published in February 2017.
She can be found on the web at www.dralexandrasolomon.com, on Facebook at Dr. Alexandra Solomon, and on Twitter at @AHSolomon.