Heal Your Relationship with Your Parents for the Holidays [public]

​The holidays have a way of bringing old patterns to the surface. A single comment, a familiar silence, a glance across the dinner table — suddenly you’re 12 again, navigating the same family dynamics you thought you’d outgrown.

​This introductory evening brings together adult children who are curious about healing intergenerational patterns and finding new ways to relate to their parents. Whether you’re actively repairing a relationship, feeling distant or conflicted, or simply wanting to understand your own lineage more deeply, this gathering offers a gentle doorway in.

​We’ll explore how to bring more presence, compassion, and choice into family interactions — before, during, and after the holidays. The session will weave together stories from the Parents Reimagined Podcast, reflective exercises, and small-group discussion. You’ll leave with practical tools, deeper self-understanding, and a sense of community with others on this path of reimagining their relationships with their parents.

​Parents Reimagined is a podcast and growing community that explores how adult children can heal and transform their relationships with their parents — not by fixing the past, but by changing how we relate to it.

​Whether you’re visiting family, staying home, or carrying the ache of distance, this workshop offers a space to come home to yourself — and perhaps begin a new chapter in how you love and are loved.

​About Kan Yan

​Kan Yan is an executive coach, facilitator, and host of the Parents Reimagined podcast. A former McKinsey consultant and Harvard-trained lawyer, Kan integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and systems thinking to help people heal and grow in their relationships. His work bridges the personal and the collective — supporting individuals, families, and organizations in transforming inherited patterns into wisdom, connection, and new possibility.

​About Parents Reimagined

​Parents Reimagined is a podcast and educational program dedicated to helping adult children transform their relationships with their parents. Through storytelling, psychology, and collective healing practices, we invite participants to move from inherited pain toward embodied freedom and connection—restoring the possibility of love across generations.

​www.parentsreimagined.com

​About The Commons

​The Commons is a community-based “Fourth Place” that catalyzes each member’s path to authenticity, full self-expression, and aliveness—rooted in the belief that community is essential to that journey. Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are redefining what it means to gather, work, and connect. By day, we’re a playful co-working space; by night, a vibrant community meeting house.

​Entering 550 Laguna:
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