SPEAKER EVENT
ReConnect: A new framework for helping parents protect their child from anxiety and depression fueled by digital addiction
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | 7:00pm
Westminster Presbyterian Church | 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT
Free and open to the public, Donations welcome.
Description:
The ground-breaking book The Anxious Generation sounded the alarm. ReConnect provides a solution. Personality Type expert Paul Tieger and psychologist Michael Shelby have combined their extensive experience to create a tool that allows parents to better understand the harmful effects of their child’s digital addiction and provides individualized strategies to help protect their child’s mental health.
About our Speakers:
Paul D. Tieger is an internationally recognized expert in Personality Psychology, the co-author of the bestselling parenting guide Nurture by Nature and 4 other books, which together have sold over one million copies. His original, published peer-reviewed research involving 10,500 subjects has shown a strong association between innate personality type and several health risks including anxiety, depression, alcohol overuse, smoking, sleep issues and medication non-compliance.
Michael Shelby, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of Plan Be Counseling and the Technology Addiction Center in Hartford, Connecticut. He specializes in recovery, personal transformation, and tech-related behavioral challenges. Michael brings over 25 years of lived and professional experience to his work, helping individuals and organizations reclaim balance in a digitally dominated world, and is the author of Technology Addiction.
