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Get tips and tricks for navigating Christmas chaos when your family traditions don’t quite match up.
WHAT IS THE WORKSHOP ABOUT?
For many couples, Christmas is not simply a festive season. It is a time full of family expectations, cultural rituals, religious meanings, childhood memories, food, gifts, money, travel, and unspoken rules about where a couple “should” be and who they “should” prioritise.
For interfaith couples, these pressures can carry particular emotional weight. A simple question such as Where are we spending Christmas? may quickly become something deeper: Whose family matters most? Which traditions will our children inherit? Am I being asked to give something up? Do I belong here? Are we creating a life together, or am I always adapting to yours?
These questions can become especially painful when Christmas feels central and familiar to one partner, while the other feels like an outsider, or someone expected to quietly fit in. Even loving and well-intentioned couples can find that the festive period exposes differences that are easier to avoid during the rest of the year.
WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FOR?
Intercultural and interfaith or all other couples wanting to approach Christmas with more understanding and stronger sense of ‘us’.
“HOW DO WE MAKE ROOM FOR US BOTH?”
Through experiential exercises and group discussion, we will explore:
family expectations and divided loyalties
religious and cultural traditions
feelings of exclusion, guilt or resentment
Christmas with children, stepchildren, grandchildren or in-laws
negotiating time between families
making space for both partners’ histories
creating new couple rituals that belong not entirely to either family, but to the couple themselves
If you have any questions please contact reeneesingh.practice@gmail.com