Gratitude: A Daily Practice of Connection
This free, self-paced mini-course for the holidays invites you to rediscover gratitude as a daily practice of connection to self, others, and the world. Through story, conversation, and reflection with insight from voices across the ideological spectrum, you’ll learn simple tools to stay grounded, open-hearted, and gracious — even amid challenging differences.
About the Course
As the holidays approach, our gatherings can be both beautiful and hard. This course offers a gentle guide to navigate them with grace. Through reflection, story, and practical tools, you’ll learn how gratitude can steady your heart, open understanding, and restore connection — with yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you.
Who This Course is For:
This course is for anyone feeling weary of division or longing for more peaceful connection — parents and partners, activists and neighbors, hosts and guests. Whether your holiday table is joyful or tense, you’ll find grounding practices and perspectives that help you meet it all with grace.
If your heart is craving gentleness and grounding, this free course is a warm place to begin.
What You’ll Learn
The holidays can stir old wounds and new conflicts. Gratitude is not a passive feeling but a powerful practice that helps us hold difference without losing connection. At a time when our culture encourages outrage and isolation, this course offers a healing alternative — to return to presence, kindness, and belonging.
- Gratitude as a way of being that reconnects you to wonder and the awe of nature.
- The Four Agreements as anchors for grace in daily life.
- Tools for civil conversation across disagreement.
- Practices to transform contempt into compassion.
- Ways to build community through shared gratitude.
What’s Included
4 short modules / lessons

Inspiring videos, readings, podcast links, and downloadable tools to guide learning
Free access