Description: A 6-week course that will highlight the concept of resilience which is the learned capacity to cope with the adversity of winter. We will discuss lifestyle choices that support resilience in addition to learning from the natural world and other cultures on ways to embrace cold and dark days while orienting toward light and life.

Format: Online only 

Agenda  

• Session 1   Introduction to Embracing Winter: lifestyle choices that
• support resilience & introduction to Hygge
• Session 2   Lessons from the natural world on wintering well
• Session 3    Role of presence-practice in the wintertime
• Session 4   Lessons from World Cultures on embracing winter
• Session 5  Practices to improve social and emotional well-being for the year-to-come
• Session 6 Managing the cold, the dark and the quiet of the season