Handouts

1. 1. When You’re Supposed To Be Happy, But You’re Not (download)
   2. After the Holidays (download)
   3. Checklist – Coping with the Holidays (download)

Assignments:

Review Influences Upon Grief Responses and Outcomes from Session 3. Then choose 5 of the items and describe how each might influence a holiday choice or situation and what kind of intervention could be effective.

Agenda

December 13, 2019

Centering Meditation

Welcome

Housekeeping

Round table check-in

Review of the agenda

Talking Points

• Recognize what meanings people ascribe to special days or seasons
• Identify specific stresses associated with significant occasions
• Create successful strategies for self-care and meaningful participation

Education and Discussion

Synthesis

One Takeaway from everyone – It can be a fact, a sense, a felt sense, a feeling,

 a reaction, a question, etc. 

Next session and assignments

Closing: Poem, reading, image and more