Ah the holidays… A time for family and celebration, for joy and  love… Yes love, for one another and expressing that love. Now enter the expectations, the effort, the running around, the spending of hard earned cash, the spending of time, lots and LOTS of time with folks who don’t hold back on expressing their opinions! AHHH the holidays! Are these holidays actually setting us up for disappointment, for confrontation? And, for gosh, you name it! Unhappiness, relapse, anxiety, sadness, misery??? Wait a minute here… let’s all take a deep breath! 

Schools that are serious about community health may wish to anticipate the stress that comes around the holidays, which put extra emotional, financial and physical demands on parents and guardians of young people. Can school play a role in alleviating some of those expectations and the stresses that come around this time of year? THENCE Learn has a special Holiday School Tools classroom that helps faculty, staff and other grown-up who have youth in their lives anticipate and manage expectations and the flip side of these expectations which can be disappointment, blame, shame and vulnerability that comes with the many pressures around these holiday expectations. This classroom. Join our THENCE speakers, instructional designers and docents for a taste of this unique content every November.