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Peace for the Holidays: Successful Transition Planning for Family Harmony

Join Dr. Stacy Feiner and Lisë Stewart for a webinar on successful transition planning that emphasizes the importance of maintaining family relationships, protecting lifelong bonds, and enabling change with dignity. Learn how to manage expectations, plan family meetings, set clear boundaries, reframe communication, and find middle ground for a peaceful holiday season. Don't let the holidays become a curse, start planning for peace today!

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Peace for the Holidays: Successful Transition Planning for Family Harmony

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  1. Peace for the HolidaysGFBAI Webinar Series Presented by Dr. Stacy Feiner and Lisë Stewart

  2. Honoring the Family Successful transition planning will recognize the importance of maintaining the family, protecting life-long relationships, and enabling change with dignity.

  3. Holidays can be both a blessing and a curse! And achieving peace and harmony will take some planning!

  4. Manage Expectations Talk openly about expectations for the holidays. When is talking ‘business’ ok and not ok? How much time do people plan to spend together?

  5. Family Meetings should be PLANNED… Set an Agenda Clarify Roles and Outcomes • Who really needs to attend? • What do you want to accomplish? • What kind of meeting do you want this to be? If it is a celebration, then make it one. If it is a business meeting, set clear boundaries.

  6. Sometimes admitting that the way you phrased something didn’t work and asking for permission to restate or reframe your point can earn both forgiveness and understanding. “REWIND” What to do when what you said just landed in the wrong place!

  7. Reframing enhances communication Repeat back in less emotional language. Reframe your own messages to lessen their critical impact. Avoid becoming entrenched.

  8. Anticipate reactions to conflict • Fight – comfortable with direct confrontations • Fright/Fawn – tries to divert the conflict, soften the blow, acquiesces to the confronter. • Flight – leaves the conversation or the room when things get heated. • Freeze – can’t think at all. Mind goes blank, can’t figure out how to respond. Feathers vs 2X4s

  9. Pull out the games. Get out for a walk. Take a time out rather than walk out! CHANGE IT UP! “Get Corny not Cranky” Make activities the subject of conversation.

  10. Be at your best versus Being on your best behavior Being at your best is an internal, natural state of mind. Being on your best behavior is externally driven and dependent on the environment.

  11. Stop. Take a breath. Observe. Proceed. Don’t get your buttons pushed,Get your feet grounded.

  12. Recognize the impact of the situational factors so you can appreciate the interpersonal connections. The holidays are simply not regular days; Close quarters, hot kitchens, tired cooks, weary travelers, the sniffles and the intake of unusual quantities of food and spirits intensifies any situation.

  13. Find the middle ground between the rock and the hard place. Expecting the worst is as exhausting as hoping everything is perfect…find the middle ground.

  14. Remember, we are here to help you to help YOUR clients! Thank you!

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