INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXPO ON CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AMSTERDAM 18.10.18 Evolutionary approaches and strategies through different dimensions and perspectives for Health optimisation. For the future of Mental Health and Well-Being personally and professionally in the digital age. Exploring where we're heading next Life 2.0–3.0-4.0+ beyond.

1. DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING
4 LIVING LIFE 2.0
Evolutionary approaches and strategies
through different dimensions and perspectives
for Health optimization. For the future of
Mental Health and Well-Being personally and
professionally in the digital age.
Salema Veliu
THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE &
EXPO
ON
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
AMSTERDAM
18.10.18

2. Our outline: AI-YOGA-ACT
• The new societal and
economical challenges facing
Mental Health and Well-Being.
• The changing need for a shift
in the old paradigms and
approaches & delivery.
• The rise of Digital Mental
Health and Wellbeing in
Therapy and Coaching,
personally and professionally.
• Why and how linking
approaches from different
paradigms could be beneficial.
• Possible Deliveries and
Outcomes.
• The Future of Mental Health
and Well-being.

3. Where are
we now LIFE
2.0 and
where are
we heading
(LIFE 3.0)
• We are standing on the brink of unfamiliar territory
in our evolution.
• The way we communicate and interact in every
domain of our lives is changing due to the
constantly evolving technology.
• What we once saw in movies and on tv that
seemed so far-fetched is now becoming our new
reality with AI transforming our world forever.
• Is this already affecting our social intelligence and
skills in how we interact human to human already?
• This brings a new set of mental challenges in
adaptability to our new environment economical
and societal that is coming.
• The rise of technology will gradually change our
values and in the process change our own feelings
of self-worth. For example: changes in Work
environments will impact the types of jobs we do.

4. What does it
mean to be
Human?
• One way to look at this question is to
consider:
• A) What do we really value about ourselves
(ACT Therapy), what behavioral attributes
do we excel at that makes us different from
other life forms and machines?
• B) What do other people value about us,
normally something we are often so pre-
occupied with that sometimes that
becomes the root of our mental afflictions
(Yoga, Meditation, Coaching and therapy
can help us overcome).

5. DEFINING MENTAL WELLBEING AND
MENTAL HEALTH the differences
(Non-Digital)
• Are related but should be considered as 2 different
concepts.
• Mental Wellbeing: The ability to be adaptable in order to
live the life we want.
• Mental Health: Persistent and specific markers for certain
symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, eating
disorders.
• That cause mental and emotional distress and anxiety
that stop us from living the life we want.
• Possible Coping mechanisms that we are speaking about
in this presentation; Yoga, Mindfulness, Meditation, ACT
in Therapy and Coaching.

6. Understanding
the difference
between
wellbeing and
mental health?
• Wellbeing refers to our sense of self and our
ability to live our lives as closely as possible to
the way we want to.
• Encapsulating the abilities to have positive
relationships, promote healthy living and feel life
satisfaction.
• Our sense of wellbeing is affected by how we
might feel about something we do or the
relationships we have – if something triggers
positive emotions such as happiness or
enjoyment.
• Frameworks in Positive Psychology reflect the
various elements of wellbeing.
• University of York (S. Halfpenny)

7. Who are we
and where are
we heading
A biological
and
computational
perspective.
• Max Tegmark provides some useful terminology
in his book Life 3.0 to provide deeper insights
into answering this question:
• LIFE – A Process that can retain its complexity
and replicate.
• LIFE - 1.0 HUMANS+ ANIMALS (biological stage):
evolves its hardware and software.
• LIFE - 2.0 HUMANS (us now in the cultural stage):
evolves its hardware, designs much of its
software with biological intelligence.
• LIFE - 3.0 (where we're heading - technological
stage): designs its hardware and software.
• AI - A Non-biological intelligence.

8. Where are we
going Life
2.0 – 3.0 – AI
• AI -normally refers to intelligence outside of a
living being.
• Artificial Intelligence–the application of logic
to problem solving–already exists.
• The next evolutions of technology are hard to
equate with a machine. With Quantum
computing and (Greater General Intelligence)
and conscious machines already on the
horizon.

9. Differences between Life 2.0 + 3.0 currently
Consciousness & Emotion.

10. Addressing changing needs: AI, Mental
Health and the new set of challenges
• In a recent interesting study by Baylor
University (Social Science Computer Review,
22nd March 2017) revealed the following:
• "Technophobes" - people who fear robots,
artificial intelligence and new technology that
they don't understand -- are much more likely
to be afraid of losing their jobs to technology
and to suffer anxiety-related mental health
issues.
• In it, 1,541 respondents were asked about
their fears and worries about politics, crime,
natural and man-made disasters, technology,
mental health and unemployment.

11. A new set of technological related behaviors
• 37 percent of participants fit the definition of a
"technophobe" -- someone who is either afraid
or very afraid of such automation as robots in
the workforce, decision-making robots,
technology they don't understand, artificial
intelligence and people who trust artificial
intelligence to do work.
• More than a third of those in the study fit its
definition of "technophobe" and are more
fearful of automation that could lead to job
displacement than they are of potentially
threatening or dangerous circumstances such
as romantic rejection, public speaking and
police brutality, according to the study.

12. A new set of technology related
behaviors
• McClure's study also found that:
• Those in historically marginalized groups --
women, non-whites and the less educated --
report being most fearful of technology.
• Technophobes are three times more likely to be
fearful of unemployment when compared to
others, and nearly three times more likely to
fear not having enough money in the future.
• Technophobes have 95 percent greater odds of
not being able to stop or control worrying when
compared to others, and 76 percent greater
odds of feeling as if something awful might
happen.

13. Why are these new challenges different now?
• Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tweeted
recently that "Automation is going to cause
unemployment and we need to prepare for it."
• For his study, McClure used data from Wave 2 of
The Chapman Survey of American Fears, an
annual national random survey.
• But some researchers in economics caution that
the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence
in the next several years will be much more
rapid than job displacement of the past.
• Particularly for those with routine job
responsibilities. Those potentially could span the
blue- and white-collar divide, from truck drivers
and warehouse workers to loan officers and
paralegals, rather than manual laborers in non-
routine jobs or workers in creative fields,
McClure said.

14. Other
FINDINGS
• People in certain occupations may legitimately fear
losing their jobs to robots and software that can
work for cheaper and for longer hours than any
human.
• While a transformation would most likely be gradual,
it could trigger a major social unrest among those
who are displaced from their jobs, McClure said.
• * Could this lead to more antisocial behaviour?
• Anticipating the individual and social outcomes is a
matter worth pursuing," he said. "If these fears are
misplaced, more research needs to be done to dispel
technophobia as a legitimate social concern.
• Regardless of whether technology might lead to
certain people's jobs becoming obsolete, the fear
itself is real.

15. A new set of technology related disorders/behaviors that we
are facing in the Millennials’ Generation :
• Video Game addiction + Depression
• https://www.psychguides.com/guides/video-game-addiction-symptoms-causes-
and-effects/
• Millennials’ Biggest Problem: Obsessive Comparison Disorder
• https://relevantmagazine.com/life/millennials-biggest-problem-obsessive-
comparison-disorder
• Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477910/

16. How
digitally
distracted
are WE?
• What can we do to find a suitable
balance between technology and
humanity?

17. What is Digital
Resilience and
how can we
cultivate
professionally
and personally
• Digital technology has become a vital
infrastructure underpinning the functioning
of every aspect of human society,
increasingly interwoven with decision making
and business processes.
• We are approaching near total reliance.
When a human, however capable, is unable
to substitute for a digital process, it can be
said to be fully digitally dependent and its
business resilience is now an issue of digital
resilience.

18. Digital Resilience,
Distraction & Regulation
• Digital resilience is part of your personality that
develops from spending time online and facing the
challenges out there. It means you recognize when
you're at risk online and what to do.
• Digital distraction & regulation is how you monitor
and manage your time effectively online.

19. The dangers of digital on Mental
Wellbeing & Health
Our connection with social
media throws up some very
important questions:
Why do we feel the need to
increase our frequency of
looking at social media?
Is this reflecting a lack of
connection we’re feeling in
real life? By constantly adding
images for example of
instagram? (Unless it’s
educational in some way)
Are we searching for meaning
to lead a more fulfilling life?
Are we getting lost in the
virtual reality which makes
our human connections more
difficult?
Are we losing who we are in
the process?

20. The Pro’s and Con’s of Digital media
(Instagram & Facebook)
• Some Pros:
• Can inspire us to make changes towards the life
we want to life.
• It can be used to inform and educate.
• Some Cons:
• Can damage our self-esteem by constant
comparing to others.
• It can sometimes give us a false sense of reality.

21. Digital
Wellbeing
• In order to successfully develop the necessary skills
and tools we need to consider how digital technologies
have an impact on our emotions, relationships, and
sense of self.
• This can’t simply be seen as a tick box set of skills; it
needs to be underpinned by a knowledge of digital
society and the measurable elements of wellbeing.
• We need to engage with debates on the topic of
technology and health, online social networks and
information security to develop our understanding of
this topic.
• This will then enable us to make informed and critical
decisions about the use of different technologies to
promote both our own wellbeing and that of others.
• University of York (S. Halfpenny)

22. Establishing active digital resilience programmes within Organizations
• Research from the Institute for Strategy Resilience &
Security & University College on ‘London Digital Resilience
– Understanding the challenges of resilience in digital
environments’ (July 2018).
• Highlighted in An assessment framework of key questions
for leaders to identify and address digital resilience issues
within their organizations with some of the following
questions:
• Do we have an active programme to build and embed
digital resilience thinking and practice throughout our
organization?
• Are we actively building resilience for both business
process, existing digital infrastructure and new
infrastructure?
• Are we putting in place processes to encourage adaptive
behaviour, continual evolution and learning environment?

23. Establishing an active digital resilience
programme within Organizations
• Some valuable key takeaways in regards to
safeguarding employees as well as the
Company itself within Digital Organizational
change from this report include:
• The importance of establishing an holistic
approach to digital resilience that
encompasses the complex graph of
interactions between employees,
customers and digital services.
• Employers putting in place processes to
encourage adaptive behaviour, continual
evolution and learning environment.
Promoting good mental health and
wellbeing to their employees.

24. Digital
Wellbeing
• Is often defined in terms of the capabilities and skills that
an individual requires to successfully make use of digital
technologies.
• Some of the elements mentioned in the Jisc Elements of
Digital Literacy digital wellbeing are:
• “The capacity to look after personal health, safety,
relationships and work-life balance in digital settings”.
• This framework goes on to identify the following
capabilities in this area:
• To use digital tools to pursue personal goals for health
and fitness
• To use digital tools to participate in social and community
activities
• To act safely and responsibly in digital environments
• To manage digital workload, overload and distraction
• Act with concern for the human and natural environment
when using digital tools. Awareness to your digital
footprint.

25. Digital Wellbeing &
Regulation?
Some Possible solutions
• One possible solution is already
available On apple smart phones
where you can monitor your
online screen time.
• Cultivate and re-learn time
management strategies using
effective time management tables
which can also been seen as a
behavioral analysis (ACT).
• YOGA,MINDFULLNESS,
MEDITATION
Dahl, J (2008) The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Discover, Explore, and Commit to Valued Action Using Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy
Why do I do what I do?
Day / Time Activity
Function
Avoidance of
something negative
Short-term fix with
something positive
Pliance (Self-Governing
rule of judgement)
Genuine Positive
Reinforcement
(Values-based)
E.g. Wed 8pm
Look at Facebook
Feeling restless and
irritable from the day
Feel excited about
seeing what others are
up to
If I sit down to relax, I’ll
only feel worse. Better
to do something
Provides a way to
connect with my friends

26. The role of
Consciousness
in mental and
physical
health?
• Can Consciousness create breakthroughs in
transformation, innovation, and well-being?
• Mindfulness is an attribute of consciousness long
believed to promote well-being.
• Many philosophical, spiritual, and psychological
traditions emphasize the importance of the quality of
consciousness for the maintenance and enhancement
of well-being (Wilber, 2000).
• Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003) study on The
benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in
psychological well-being showed:
• That in an experience-sampling study that both
dispositional and state mindfulness predict self-
regulated behavior and positive emotional states.
• And how a clinical intervention study with cancer
patients demonstrates that increases in mindfulness
over time relate to declines in mood disturbance and
stress.

27. What is Yoga and what can we learn from
these paradigms to help with Digital
Distraction, Regulation and Resilience?
• Yoga practices + philosophies are about re-
establishing a connection between the mind +body
(to yoke).
• To witness our EMOTIONS and Behaviour through our
responses and reactions in and to life.
• How we connect to ourselves, each other and the
world around us.
• Challenges our perception of reality through
consciousness (Patanjali).
• The tools of Meditation & Mindfulness help promote
connection and moves us away from isolation
(sometimes a by product of technology).

28. What can we
learn from Yoga
and certain
Philosophies to
help with Digital
Distraction,
Regulation and
Resilience?
• For me ‘Yoga represents the duality of
mechanical movement + consciousness.’
• “I have to see myself being a machine, to know
myself as a machine, and to be here whilst
functioning as a machine. My aim is to
experience being mechanical and never forget it.
At the same time, we are bearers of higher
possibilities. In better moments we each feel
ourselves as a particle of something greater. We
all carry in us this seed of greatness. This is our
value as Human beings.” ~ Jeanne De Salzmann
• Taken from The Fourth Way of Being of G.I.
Gurdjieff (1866-1949)

29. Other learnings from YOGA
• Yoga practices creates psychological
flexibility, stamina and strength in the
mind as well as the body.
• “Bodily gestures stimulate changes in
brain chemistry and electrical wave
patterns (potentials). The yoga asanas
are beneficial to the state of the
practitioners mind. These positions have
been time-tested over thousands of
years to yield the state of mind called
samadhi, or bliss.” – David Life

30. What else can we learn from combining
Eastern + Western philosophy?
• That our automatism is a prison and our
thoughts keep us imprisoned.
• The experiments that we perform to give us a
temporary reprieve from this automatism to shift
our identification away from the body/mind
container, are Meditation and simple noticing
techniques (ACT).
• To control mind and motivation, the practitioner
shifts their focus from the things they are aware
of, or the thoughts that they are having, to the
instrument of their awareness, which is
Consciousness.

31. Digital Distraction and
regulation
New Coping
Mechanisms for
Psychological Flexibility
& Emotional Agility
• Steven Hayes and Russ Harris describe
psychological flexibility as “The ability to
contact the present moment fully as a
conscious human being, and based on
what the situation affords, changing or
persisting in behavior in the service of
chosen values.”
• ACT provides the structural model for
balancing between eastern and western
paradigms.
• Noticing skills – to help with Digital
Distraction and regulation.
• Value based exercises – to re-evaluate and
regulate thought processes Fusion vs
Defusion.

32. Consciousness &
Psychological flexibility
• The ability to move in a direction
that matters to you, even if the
presence of unwanted
experiences (thoughts, feelings,
physical sensations), and in
changing circumstances.
• Psychological flexibility is the
ability to contact the present
moment more fully as a conscious
human being and to either
change behavior or persist, if
doing so serves valued end’
(Wilson & Murrell, 2005).
• Knowing what is important and
taking steps to connect with this.
• Making changes to our reaction/s
allows us to achieve the outcome
that we want to see.

33. Digital Distraction and regulation
New Coping Mechanisms for Psychological Flexibility & Emotional
Agility Beneficial
Outcomes of linking these paradigms
• Able to distinguish between: Fused + Defused thoughts processes
• FUSED thoughts being:
• Seeing the world through your thoughts, rather than seeing the
thoughts as part of your world.
• Losing the distinction between thought and reality.
• When you see the thoughts as realities, which can create frustration,
stuckness.

34. Digital Distraction and Regulation
New Coping Mechanisms for
Psychological Flexibility & Emotional
Agility
• VERSUS
• DEFUSED which allows
• Treating thoughts as thoughts and not realities
which creates more mobility in emotions and
cognition (thinking).
• May or may not be true.
• Definitely not something you have to obey or
follow;
• Not a threat to you;
• May or may not be important;

35. Human Connection and building Trust via
ACT in the workplace
• Barnaby Lashbrooke founder of virtual
assistant platform Time etc. says that it's
time business leaders started talking about
mental health...
• Most employers agree that a healthy
workforce is a better performing workforce.
• A 2013 survey by Mind of 2,060 adults in
England and Wales in employment found
that stress has forced a fifth of workers to
call in sick, but 90 per cent lied to their boss
about the real reason for not turning up.
This is a trust breakdown.

36. Cultivating
Human
Connection &
Trust
in the workplace
• Additionally, six in 10 employees say they’d
feel more motivated and more likely to
recommend their company as a good place
to work if their employer took action to
support mental wellbeing, according to a
survey by mental health charity Mind.

37. Nurturing the
next
generation of
leaders from a
mental health
perspective
• Why is 2018 a time to see emotional
intelligence, mindfulness and mental health take
center stage in business?
• UK millennials have the some of the poorest
mental wellbeing in the world.
• According to a 2017 survey, commissioned by
the Varkey Foundation, of more than 20,000 15
to 21-year-olds in 20 countries.
• And, for business leaders, it’s in their interest to
create a nurturing working environment for
millennials, who will make up 75 per cent of the
workforce by 2025.
• https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/its-time-
talk-about-mental-health-work

38. How digital technologies and different
deliveries can be helpful
• In alignment with our changing societal,
economical and technological culture.
• Provides accessibility, affordability and
connection to match supply and demand.
• Provides services when needed, as it happens, in
conversations usually via video chats and mobile
applications.
• Can reduce waiting times: *On average in the UK
for example in Scotland and Surrey the average
waiting time is 18 weeks (just over 3 months).

39. NEW Delivery solutions for therapeutic interventions 4 Living
Life 2.0
• My LIVING LIFE 2.0 Personal & Professional Coaching
Programmes.
• Reflects the essence of this changing societal,
economical and technological culture.
• Micro 15 minutes: When you need to talk through a
personal or professional situation briefly to get it off
your chest? or Have a decision to make?
• Also available in segments of:
• Mini 30.0, Midi 45.0, Maxi 60.0

40. How it works and possible benefits +
outcomes
• Clients send me a video message of the issue their facing.
•
I am prepared.
•
We will get to the point.
•
They get to process their thoughts clearly in a supportive
virtual space.
• They get their money's worth.
• They walk away HAVING done something as opposed to
nothing.
• Virtual support.

41. Delivery solutions for therapeutic
interventions in Living Life 2.0
• LIVING LIFE 2.0 WORKPLACE Innovative
Employee Support Solutions:
• Is a solution for employees who don’t have
access to private spaces during the day.
• Text- based communications are pushed out
to employees, who can interact with ME for
the individualized support they need.
• Programs can be catered to any need,
including mental health care, wellness, or
physical fitness, Personal Development and
Mentoring. This is done directly from an
employee’s phone and can take place
anywhere on the planet.

42. AI the next frontier in Mental
Health
• A team of MIT researchers is claiming that
its latest AI can accurately predict
depression in a person by processing raw
text and speech data.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to
have a major impact on medical diagnosis
in the years and decades to come.
• One example is DeepMind’s latest system,
which can spot more than 50 eye diseases
by searching through scanned images of a
patient’s eyes.

43. AI the next frontier in Mental Health
• One area where there has been less
development is mental health diagnosis,
possibly because of the sheer complexity of
the human mind.
• In a recent paper however MIT researchers
revealed a neural network model that they
claim can take raw text and audio data
compiled from interviews of people to
discover speech patterns indicative of
depression.
• The team said that as a result, when
presented with a new subject, it can
accurately predict if that person is
depressed, without needing to be asked any
questions.

44. AI the next frontier and possible
push out deliveries to monitor
Mental Health
• The researchers hope that this system will allow
AI developers to create tools to detect signs of
depression in natural conversation.
• One suggestion the team made would be that in
the future, mobile apps could monitor a person’s
text and voice conversations for mental distress,
and send alerts.
• Tuka Alhanai, first author of the research, said
that it is through a person’s speech that we get
our first hint of someone’s emotional state.
• https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/predi
ct-depression-ai

45. Teaching Robotics/AI how
to connect to humans
The new face of therapy?
• A unique collaboration between Hanson
AI, SinguarlityNET and Lia, Inc. Is already
addressing how AI agents can communicate
unconditional love to humans through
conversations that adapt to the unique needs
of each user while supporting their integrative
personal and relational development.
• https://noetic.org/sites/default/files/innovatio
n-lab/IONS_Loving_AI_proposal.pdf

46. The Future of Mental Health, Well-Being
AI, Robots and Meditation the new face of therapeutic interventions?
• McCann Worldwide Japan has debuted what it claims to be the world’s first
mindfulness meditation robot that will help guide meditation.
• The robot will guide the mindfulness meditation demonstration for an experience
of looking inward and conversing with oneself.
• Research results have shown that meditation improves ability to learn and inspire
along with reducing anxiety and stress.
• The Innovation Lab at IONS is working with OpenCog and HansonRobotics to
create LOVing INtelligent General AIs or LOVING AIs — open-source artificial
general intelligences that behave as if they have unconditional love for themselves
and others.

47. What does this all mean?
• Some interesting questions to consider:
• Will AI help Life flourish as never before, meaning will we
all have more leisure time and be less stressed?
• Or will machines eventually outsmart at all tasks, and
even, perhaps, replace us altogether?