The Mindful Holiday: Slowing Down And Doing What's Important

The holiday season can be joyful—but it can also bring stress, overwhelm, and emotional triggers. This 2-hour experiential workshop offers practical mindfulness tools to help you stay grounded, present, and connected during the busiest time of the year.

Through guided practices, reflection exercises, and small group discussion, you’ll learn how to:

• Reduce holiday stress and anxiety
• Cultivate presence in social gatherings and family interactions
• Respond with awareness rather than react out of habit
• Maintain balance and joy amidst the seasonal busyness

Whether you’re navigating family dynamics, work obligations, or personal expectations, this workshop provides gentle, practical strategies to approach the holidays with calm, clarity, and intention.

What to Bring:

• Comfortable clothing
• Open mind and willingness to practice
• Optional: journal or notebook

Facilitator:
Ken Dunn, also known as Katbird, is an experiential coach and mindfulness teacher specializing in helping people create meaningful, authentic lives. He combines practical mindfulness strategies with experiential exercises to help participants navigate life transitions and challenges with presence, purpose, and play.

Details:

• Duration: 2 hours
• Format: In-person (or virtual, if applicable)
• Suitable for all levels of experience

Join us and discover how slowing down doesn’t mean doing less—it means doing what matters most.

When:

Sunday December 7th 5:00 - 7:00PM Eastern

Cost:

$30 per person - seats are limited. Click "Get tickets" to reserve your spot.

Ken Dunn, is a mindfulness teacher and experiential coach who helps people go from exhaustion to ease.

Through Expedition Recovery, his Asheville-based practice, Ken leads virtual mindfulness workshops that help participants slow down, reconnect, and cultivate balance in their daily lives. His approach blends meditation, experiential exercises, and real-world reflection to make mindfulness practical, grounded, and deeply human.

A person in long-term recovery, Ken brings warmth, humor, and lived experience to his teaching. Whether guiding a group meditation or facilitating mindful conversation, he helps people rediscover calm, clarity, and joy—right where they are.

Testimonials

Meg -

Ken Dunn is a wise guide, muse, and coach. He helped me slow down, access mindfulness "on demand", and see "life" and progress in a new way. I appreciate his gentle, non-pedantic and non-judgmental teaching style. I feel like a different person in all the right ways. No more overworking, over-stressing, and overthinking. I'm more rested, creative and focussed in my work. A miracle to be sure.

Stefanie -

Very compassionate; great at bringing insight and meditation practices into the conversation.

Osama -

Ken provided a wonderfully supportive community during a challenging period of personal transition for me. Ken's coaching helped me build a stronger foundation of self-compassion and gave me the practical mindfulness tools I needed to move forward. I'm leaving with a much greater sense of inner strength and clarity.

Tom -

Loved the space made of us in teh 6-Week series. Ken offered a group experieence and somehow was able to validatae each of our unique responses to the different meditations while also keeping us focused.