15.07.2025 | Author: Anita Arias
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Promoting collective awareness through Critical Digital Education is a fundamental tool for our work as activists and digital and human rights defenders. This is especially significant in an increasingly digitalised environment, where inequalities, misinformation and hate speech are intensifying. For this reason, developing a critical eye on what we consume, share and construct in digital environments allows us to recognise the power structures that affect our lives and those of our communities.
Collective Consciousness. Digital Education and Wellbeing
This collective consciousness not only connects us to other struggles, but also invites us to manage our emotions more consciously, especially in contexts of overexposure, surveillance, digital harassment and constant wear and tear. Emotional management is about acting from awareness rather than reaction. This becomes a political and self-care act, key to sustaining our long-term engagement without sacrificing our mental health.
Understanding Critical Digital Education as an emancipatory practice allows us not only to denounce digital violence, but also to build support networks, collective resistance and narratives that humanise our causes. In this process, emotional awareness is a pillar that strengthens our actions, because it allows us to inhabit activism from a more sustainable, less reactive and more nourishing place.
Promoting mental health and wellbeing, then, is not a luxury or an individualistic act, but an urgent necessity to take care of our bodies, emotions and bonds. Our struggle for human and digital rights is enhanced when we also defend our right to feel, rest and be well. Feeling is part of the ups and downs of life, for men, women and LGBTQIA+ people. Showing vulnerability ceases to be a weakness and strengthens us as a network by allowing ourselves to be cared for.
Emotions for the common good in the digital age
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Afro-Ecuadorian family counsellor who provides emotional support and self-care tools to women human and digital rights defenders. Co-founder of Conexión Educativa in Ecuador: an organisation that promotes human rights and social justice through knowledge sharing, research and accompaniment in the implementation of responsible digital technologies.
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