How to Help Your Clients Set Healthy Boundaries during the Holiday Season

Although the holiday season is billed as a time to relax and enjoy ourselves, to see friends and family and to take a break from day-to-day challenges, for many people can it feel quite the opposite.

Each year the preparations seem to start earlier, the cost of everything seems higher and many of the anxious situations we had to navigate last year seem to be lying in wait for us yet again. Expectations can be high—achieving all the ends-of-year goals at work, all the excitement of school parties and concerts, endless shopping, and hosting family meals.

Instead of being restful, the holidays can be a stressful time—with everything resting on our shoulders and simply too much to deal with. It's possible to feel isolated and outside of the general enthusiasm—to feel over-stretched, taken for granted and anxious.

In the workshop we'll investigate how we can put ourselves back in the driver’s seat for our holiday experience. We’ll look at how we can establish boundaries that enable us to function in a positive way, without feelings of guilt and resentment. Healthy boundaries can enhance the holiday experience for ourselves and for those we are spending it with. By applying some fundamental principles of self-compassion—self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness—we’ll explore the ways in which we can enjoy the holidays instead of suffering them.

Participants will receive a PDF with quotes and exercises they can download

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• To understand how our expectations can cause us stress during the holidays
• To realise the value of healthy boundaries and how they can empower us
• To familiarise participants with some simple principles of self-compassion to help us navigate the holidays

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Counsellors and therapists who want to help their clients deal with anxiety and overload during the holidays

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Including a variety of exercises to be used with clients if appropriate

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Maureen Cooper

Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness.

Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe.

Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.

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