Speaking
Christina Crook is on a mission to show people overwhelmed by our digitally-saturated culture how to live with intentionality and joy. She has addressed conferences, corporate teams, faith groups, and universities over the past several years, sharing with them how presence and peace can be found in the midst of the cacophony of the modern world. She’s a personable and engaging speaker who shares her advice in a way that’s relevant and uplifting.
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impact
“Spend ten minutes with Christina and you’ll feel rejuvenated and hopeful about the future. She makes disconnecting look mainstream, doable, and like the breath of fresh air we are gasping for."
- Aimee Ippersiel, Executive Director at the Robert Bateman Centre
"From the moment I approached Christina Crook to discuss the opportunity of hosting a DRIVE session she was nothing but professional, engaged, and extremely collaborative. Christina created a presentation specifically for DRIVE which was all about building awareness when it comes to social media consumption. Christina skillfully helped attendees glimpse into how they passively consume media and reevaluate their consumption through articulating their values.
Christina has an ability to connect with people immediately and finds commonalities that make her extremely relatable. Christina’s relatability was key in helping breaking down the shyness in the room successfully leading to vulnerable and open conversations between attendees. The session was flawlessly executed. It received much positive feedback from attendees--so much so that I had colleagues anecdotally bringing up points from the session in conversations months later.
I would recommend Christina Crook to anyone looking for a motivational/inspirational speaker."
- Madison Hall Sikorski, Brand Strategist & Drive Founder at Cossette, 2018 Agency of the Year
"I recently had the privilege of moderating a panel that Christina participated in for Ivy League students. She brought a high level of professionalism to the panel, as well as a wealth of knowledge in the field of journalism. She is undoubtedly an expert in her field, and is a pleasure to work with and learn from!”
- Kristen Ottaviano, Ministry Fellow at Dartmouth, Nexus Conference at Yale
“Christina is amazing! She has been an integral part of the Fireside community for years. She is an amazing facilitator and keeps her audiences engaged and consistently learning.”
- Steven Pulver, Co-founder at Fireside, the annual all-inclusive tech innovator, investor, and influencer retreat
“I love how present Christina was at our conference. It means a lot when someone comes and really embraces the event and delves deep into connecting with people."
- Darian Kovacs, Co-founder at the Canadian Internet Marketing Conference
"We loved Christina's talk. She hit the mark on every level and was just the perfect thing we were looking for. My leadership team and I felt it was the highlight of the year and a great way to go out with a huge bang. Everything Christina said was so rich and full. I would like to explore bringing Christina up to Ottawa for something larger next year."
- Terry Long, Founder at Quiet Pools Leaders Circle, Ottawa
TOPICS
The world of competition and corporate bottom lines drives us to extremes. We need to go home, we need to disconnect and recharge, but it’s increasingly difficult to do so. When not used mindfully, our tech can sap our focus, productivity, creativity and, ultimately, our impact. Embracing the Joy of Missing Out is essential for success in all aspects of how we love, live, parent and lead. Joy, by definition, is “the emotion evoked by well-being, success and the prospect of possessing what one desires.” It’s what all of us wants.
By examining the connected world through the lens of her own internet fast, Christina creates a convincing case for increasing intentionality in our day-to-day lives and cultivating joy by missing out on the right things.
Experiencing and offering sanctuary in a hyper-connected world.
Christina Crook's book, The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, has made her leading voice on technology and human flourishing. Through her writing and speaking she reveals how key shifts in our thinking can enable us to draw closer to one another, taking up the good burdens of local work and responsibilities. She writes about the value of focus, making space to create, and the meaning we find in more limited connections. She challenges the Western values of power, control, and success, revealing how wonder, trust, and discipline are central to the experience of being human and the keys to our joy.
Our world is being furiously reshaped by technology, more often for the better but sometimes for the worse. Every part of our lives is being transformed, disrupted or made obsolete in some way, including our relationships with each other, ourselves and our faith. For some, the tech community appears collectively deaf to the moral and social consequences of their society-shifting technologies. But that too is shifting. The better we understand our own relationship with technology the better equipped we are to respond to a rapidly shifting culture.
Novelist Flannery O’Connor once wrote: “You have to push as hard as the age that pushes you.” What would we say is the great push of our age? To consume: more information, more products, more connections. But a life of consumption is not an end worthy of human beings. We were made for more.
Drawing upon Augustine’s work on desire and the Ignatian practice of discernment, Christina Crook draws upon her personal faith to help us reorient our lives towards what brings joy in a complex, digital world.
Customization
// Christina is able to adapt/customize her talks to meet your organization's needs including the following takeaways:
Ensuring time spent online is time well spent
Disconnecting from digital overwhelm to reconnect to our hearts, values and people we love most
Building self-compassion and compassion for others by taking down our facades and embracing our own weaknesses
Unfriending convenience
Quitting the comparison game
Rewiring our habits for maximum impact at home, at work and in our communities
Rediscovering your “why” as an individual and team/organization
Entering fully into rest and recovery
Moving from surviving to thriving
word guild award in culture
Christina received the inaugural Word Guild Award in Culture in 2016.
Human-centred design
The Canadian Internet Marketing Conference welcomed Christina to breathtaking Squamish, British Columbia to speak about becoming technically productive and privately peaceful in an always-on work culture.
TEDx speaker
Christina's talk, "Letting Go of Technology: Pursuing a People-focused Future" was presented as a part of the TEDx Global Women conference.