Lior Ziv · Psychologist · Tel Aviv
I'm Lior Ziv.
I take the phone out of real life and see what comes back.
I'm a psychologist and a speaker, and I run The Offline Lab. I take the device out of ordinary life, at home, at work, at the table, and study what returns. Rest. Focus. Human connection. The attention we'd already written off.
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The premise
Disconnection isn't a place you go. It's what survives an ordinary day.
The industry sells you an escape. A cabin, a retreat, a detox weekend far from your life — then it hands the phone back at the airport and nothing changes. The Lab starts from the opposite assumption: the hardest, most valuable place to disconnect is the life you already live.
The experiments
The phone leaves the house.
I went into people's homes, took their phones, and left them there without them. No cabin, no airport — their own house, minus the device. Every one of them said the same thing after: there's a quality to being disconnected inside your own life they had never felt before. Bigger. Slower. More theirs.
100%
reported a calmer evening
0
wanted the phone back early
↑
focus and presence
↓
the reach for a screen
Findings are qualitative and early. The Lab is building toward measured, publishable work.
From the Lab, to your room
A few ways I can help
Talks
Keynotes and workshops on rest, attention, and disconnection — for companies and organizations of any kind. The science, and changes a team keeps.
Experiences
A one-time offline experience run inside your organization: the devices leave, and the room finds out how that actually feels.
Spaces
Consulting on attention and productivity — designing the rooms and norms where deep work becomes the default.
Questions
What is The Offline Lab?
The Offline Lab is Lior Ziv's live research into digital disconnection, run from Tel Aviv. It measures what happens to focus, productivity, sleep and presence when the phone leaves real life — not a retreat.
What do you speak about?
Keynotes and workshops on rest, focus, digital disconnection, and what changes when the phone leaves the room — for teams, conferences, and organizations.
Where is Lior based, and does he travel?
Lior is based in Tel Aviv and works with teams and events internationally, in person and remotely.