Workshop: Your AI Self-Care Companion: A New Tool for Your Mind

In this workshop, Jeremy G. Schneider, LMSW, MFT, explores the use of AI for self-care and support. The video introduces AI self-care by setting realistic expectations for AI as a tool, not a conscious entity. 

It emphasizes the importance of self-care using metaphors like "managing your load" and "replenishing your energy" to explain the need for restoration and regulation. 

Using analogies such as a "puppy dog" and an "improv actor" to highlight AI's people-pleasing tendencies and limitations, and advises on "training your AI puppy" by setting clear boundaries, being consistent, providing feedback, and rewarding helpfulness. 

Addresses realistic expectations for AI, differentiating what it can do (e.g., name emotions, ask helpful questions) from what it cannot (e.g., know who you truly are, replace a therapist), and dispels common myths. 

Specific AI prompt ideas are included for self-care in common scenarios like overwhelm, replaying conversations, and vague anxiety, as well as prompts for restoration through gratitude practice, celebrating small wins, and finding calm. 

Jeremy encourages guided practice and reflection, prompting experimentation, pausing, and capturing insights, followed by reflection questions about the user's interaction with AI. 

Finally, the video includes next steps and resources, including 

* a free "5-Step Starter Blueprint for Real-Life Self-Care" guide, 

* information on "The Digital Ally Approach" combining coaching and AI, and * details about Jeremy G. Schneider's one-on-one coaching for trauma-informed healing and personal growth. 

The workshop leader, Jeremy G. Schneider, LMSW, MFT, is a licensed master social worker, family therapist, and trauma-informed coach with over 30 years of experience, a Psychology Today contributor, and creator of The Integration Path™ framework and The Digital Ally approach.