Going beyond unattended mode can make for more memorable and less tense meetings, experts say
What’s your plan for Christmas🇧🇷 Are you going to get the whole family together for a big party? Or maybe do something more intimate, just with immediate family members. There are those who prefer to meet on the evening of the 24th, for lunch on the 25th or even earlier, on a date that is easier to fit into the schedules of all the guests. However, it may be that this meeting is almost automatic, that it is repeated only by tradition. Perhaps it is appropriate to ask ourselves: what is the real purpose of this meeting? What do we want from her?
“Ordinary hosts focus on making everything work: the food, the flowers, and the table setting. But they leave the interactions to chance,” says researcher Priya Parker, an expert in conflict resolution and author of the book The art of dating (Ed. Objetiva, BRL 79,90). “Assuming the purpose is obvious, we quickly transition into form. Which not only leads to boring and repetitive meetings, but misses out on the opportunity to embrace our needs. Your meeting should be specific to you.”
In the Bonometti house, Christmas has always been a serious matter. The meeting began on the morning of the 24th, with the preparation of food, such as roast beef, followed by mass, and concluded at dawn on the 25th with a family celebration. “A very pleasant atmosphere,” says pastry chef Luciana Bonometti, 33. This year the party has been brought forward, on November 27, to bring the whole family together, as it hasn’t been done since before the pandemic🇧🇷 Although the meeting was not on Christmas Eve due to family logistics, she was entitled to all the Christmas traditions, including treats and affection – something that, for Luciana, was essential.
“The isolation period was very difficult for me because nobody saw me pregnant with Laura (now 1 year and 10 months old) and that is something that still excites me today. It’s a moment you want people to be a part of, you want to share it and you can’t,” he vents. “That’s why this year has been so special. My uncle from Recife met my daughter, my other son had fun with her cousins, something that is very important to create those Christmas memories, right? To relive those moments and be close to the people I love is very special.”
For her, the true purpose of Christmas is to share family stories. “We honor our history to this day, cherish our Italian descendants and leave it alive for future generations,” she says.
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