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Being Human #1 | Attention matters

14/04/2026

Workshop | D4.1.200 Analog room | 1:00 – 3:30 PM | EN

Being Human #1 | Attention matters

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Being Human – What does that mean in the age of AI?  Why is it so essential to do your own thinking, feeling and sensing? In short: it’s vital to successfully learn at universit. It’s also crucial tob e able to create a good life for yourself and the world around you. In this three-part workshop series, we’ll explore together what being human means today.

How we experience the world around us and the extent to which we see ourselves as active co-creators in it is strongly linked to how we use our attention. Am I the boss of my smartphone or is it the other way around and it distracts me more than it is helpful? How we can find a better balance between these poles is the subject of this workshop.

In this in-person workshop, you will have the opportunity to dedicate 2 ½ hours of your time to the topic of attention.

Skills & Goals
  • Short theoretical introduction to types of attention and spec. attention modes (according to Iain McGilchrist's brain hemisphere hypothesis)
  • Analysis: How do I lose my attention?
  • Leadership presence model as a status-quo analysis tool for understanding where and why we get distracted or scattered
  • Embodied practices – for different contexts – to increase your ability to pay attention
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