A dear collegue, Penny, and I will be teaching our first workshop together, entitled 'Be Your Self'. And it focuses on just that: being your self.
Leaning on the principles that underpin the Zero Balancing work, we will look at what it means to be your self and practical ways in which this can be achieved. These principles are universal and can be applied to anyone and everyone. So our aim is to teach how you can apply this to your life - so you can be your self, no matter what! Being our first workshop, we will be offering this at the discounted price of £30 per person and we will ask for your feedback so that we can learn and improve on future events. It will take place at EH1 Therapies on Saturday 12th March, from 10am to 1pm. All our welcome to join but spaces are limited so please secure your place when you can. See here for more details and to secure your place. Hope to see you there 😊
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From Wednesday 21st July, all sessions will be held at EH1 Therapies. It's near John Lewis/Real Foods and really easy to get to!
The full address is: EH1 Therapies 28 Forth Street Edinburgh EH1 3LH Look forward to seeing you there :) Photo by Erin Larson on UnsplashThis may seem a little off topic to some but I'd like to take some time to let you know about what's been keeping me busy in recent times. I had a brief text conversation some months ago with someone who had left WhatsApp because of changes to their privacy policy. I didn't give that conversation any further thought until later that evening when I felt something ignite within me. In that moment I was inspired to delve back into the world of online privacy and computer security that I had left well over a decade ago. The next morning I started doing my research. Catching up on 15+ years of development in the tech world was not easy - and I'm still researching to this day - but one thing was abundantly clear almost immediately. I had been totally unaware of my boundaries in the electronic world. I learnt about my 'digital footprint' and all the means that the big tech companies use at their disposal to find out as much about you as they can. Subjects such as browser fingerprinting and metadata became recurring themes, and the fact that our mobile phones are used to gather data about us. The world's biggest internet companies use our over-reliance on their free products to their own advantage. Data is sold, analysed and in some cases this is used to manipulate the political future of whole countries. In other cases, poor security means that personal data is leaked and various online accounts around the world are hacked. I was loosely aware of all of this, yet I wasn't aware of the technologies these companies implemented to achieve this nor the scale on which it happens. I felt uncomfortable. I had been totally unaware that my boundaries had been breached. It's one thing using my information in this way, it's another thing to do it without my explicit consent. So I was spurred into action to remedy my engagement with the online world. Naturally, part of that includes this very website. I am duty bound by law to protect my clients' files and these will soon be moved to a more secure cloud service (farewell Dropbox). The same data protection law also includes all correspondence which has for several years been managed by Google (sayonara!). Going forward, I will instead use an encrypted email service for all client emails and appointment records. And further still, I will strip Google Analytics from this website and all embedded Facebook like and share buttons - all of which are used to track you around the internet whether you have a Google/Facebook account or not. The principles of Zero Balancing include respecting a client's boundaries and holding them in the highest personal regard. I cannot in good conscience allow Google to scan the emails that are sent to me for content and log who emails me, when and where from. I cannot turn a blind eye to my client's files being on an insecure cloud service which can, in theory, be accessed by others. Neither can I allow people who visit my website in good faith be tracked by Google and Facebook. I can't escape the reality of the world we live in. Nonetheless I am responsible for what I can control. My privacy policy has been updated to reflect changes already made, and further changes are still in the works. P.S. For anyone curious about where to start, I would suggest downloading Jumbo on your phone (you can press 'skip' on all the paid-for features) and doing an assessment of your online accounts. If you want to take it further still, check out the In Cognito course on Techlore's youtube channel. I'm not affiliated with either Jumbo or Techlore, other than that I am indebted to them for helping me out on this learning journey. Katrina Wright on Unsplash |
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