youth workshops
Our youth workshops are the core of grit. It's why we started grit in the first place. The amount of teens with mental health issues has sky-rocketed - let's work together to fix that.
​Our goal is to give people the tools they need at a young age to keep their brains happy and healthy through the tricky times. Using science-backed resources, we teach kids about the neuro-science of mental agility for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.
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​We also talk about real topics like friendships/relational aggression, identity, anxiety + mental health, self-regulation, stress, pressure, gender stereotypes, technology, compassion, empathy, privilege, and what being an authentic human is really all about.
grit winter check-up
7-10yrs
East Van: Sunday, December 28 / 1-4pm: register
North Van: Sunday, January 4 / 1-4pm: register
Cast your mind past all the holiday hoopla—into that calm, quiet week where no one knows what day it is. It’s the perfect moment to help your small humans get grounded and centred again. Let’s refill their toolkit so that when school-life ramps back up, they’re equipped with sparkly, ready-to-go brains (and yes, you get three glorious hours to yourself to stare at a wall or do whatever your soul requires… win/win).
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We’ll revisit our tools for handling overwhelm and staying regulated, refresh strategies for navigating friendship ups and downs, and tap into creativity—all while connecting with a crew of like-minded, kind, and wonderful kids.
in school grit
grades 4-7
We run science-backed workshops in schools to promote emotional resilience,
self-regulation, pro-social behaviour and mental agility.
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Our light-hearted, fast-paced workshops are primarily designed for grades 3-7 and focus on practical skills for self-regulation, self-awareness, self-preservation + self-knowledge.
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Our typical workshop series is 4 weeks,
1 hr/wk in one classroom, but we are happy to custom design a workshop series or one-off for your school.
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Each workshop features the same format:
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check in
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warm-up
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curriculum chat + activities
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brain-train meditation
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Feel free to mix + match from the following workshops:
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choose workshops from our
grit curriculum
coping skills for:
grades 1-3
friendship lab
In grades 1–3, kids are just beginning to explore how friendships and social power work — but they haven’t yet learned how to handle the tricky emotions that come with it: anger, jealousy, insecurity. So there’s often a disconnect between what they want (to belong) and how they try to get it (through exclusion, gossip, or manipulation instead of compassion and kindness).
By giving kids the language to name their feelings and the tools to manage them in healthy, pro-social ways, we can lay the groundwork for a lifetime of positive, empathetic pro-social relationships.
Friendship Lab — is a practical, mindful workshop where kids explore big emotions, role-play tricky friendship scenarios, brainstorm conflict resolutions, and tap into their naturally kind, social selves. They’ll leave feeling empowered, informed, and ready to handle whatever friendship challenges the year brings.
lunch grit
Lunch Grit is a 6wk workshop held at lunch in your school.
In it, we un-pack how to be a happier human at school. We find tools for finding calm in stressful situations, we navigate our way through the landmine of tricky friendships, we deal with the pressure of expectations, we laugh - we create - we move our bodies and train our brains.
It’s the perfect break for half-way through the day.
We take care of registration and administration / School PAC takes care of getting the word out to parents.
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grades 4-6 / 5-7