Pre-Holiday Reset: Break the Stress Cycle & Enjoy a Calm, Connected Winter

Social Innovation
Virtual
16 Dec 2025

Join us for an insightful and practical pre-holiday reset to shift out of stress mode and into a more grounded, easeful state.

As the year winds down, many of us push hard right up until the holidays only to step straight into a whirlwind of gatherings, family commitments, and a backlog of errands. Before we know it, January arrives and we feel less rested than before the break even began.

This workshop is designed to interrupt that pattern.

Join us for an insightful and practical pre-holiday reset where you will learn how to shift out of stress mode and into a more grounded, easeful state. The goal is to help the holidays become a genuine period of enjoyment, connection, and restoration rather than another stretch of overwhelm.

Cole Nakatani and Erik Bisanz have spent over a decade helping people regulate their nervous systems, reduce stress, and thrive in demanding environments. Their facilitation brings together evidence-based tools, interactive exercises, and simple practices you can use right away. You can expect learning, laughter, insight, and a noticeable sense of relief.

You will walk away with:

  • A clearer understanding of your personal stress patterns
  • Simple nervous-system resets you can use anytime to relieve stress
  • A practical plan to create a more restorative holiday season

We hope you can join us before the break so you can step into the winter holidays feeling more grounded, spacious, and ready to enjoy what matters most.


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About the speakers

Erik Bisanz

Erik is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and researcher with two decades of experience in mental health services. Formerly Executive Director of a world-renowned mentoring and restorative justice program, he now brings research-based, scalable approaches to workplace wellbeing. His unique perspective caused him to be sought out to design novel mental health and psychiatric programs, as well as collaborate with some of the top speakers and entertainers exploring the intersection of art, science and magic for live audiences, streaming and television productions around the world. Erik speaks internationally on topics including resiliency, perception, wonder and human connection.

Cole Nakatani

Cole Nakatani is a social entrepreneur, educator, and certified professional coach dedicated to empowering individuals and teams to create meaningful work and meaningful lives. Over the past decade, he has designed and facilitated transformative learning experiences for thousands of professionals and students around the world, focusing on resilience and building new habits.

Cole has coached individuals across diverse roles and organizations, from startup founders to senior leaders and social enterprises to public institutions. A common thread in his work is to build new capabilities within people so they can be more productive, deliberate and confident in the face of adversity and uncertainty.

Outside of work, Cole is passionate about exploring his edges, whether through meditation and breath-work, free-diving deep into the ocean, or trail running through the forests with his flat feet.

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