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Building Resilience in the Face of a Crisis
For 33 years, Challenge Day has been one of the leading experts in facilitating workshops designed to support emotional well-being, building connection, resiliency and healing.
- During this time of extreme worry, anxiety, stress, and instability our mental state is the most vulnerable.
- Regardless of our background, age, community, workplace, or faith we can all benefit from coping strategies that address this current trauma.
- Through mindfulness, vulnerability, compassion and rewiring of our habits we can build our resiliency and begin to heal during this critical time.
Challenge Day is here for you! We have new virtual lessons for
- Secondary Schools - For students, educators, parents
- Communities and Adults - For adults, college students, business leaders and teams
SECONDARY SCHOOLS: New Online Class Offerings
- Research-based classes/workshops include a mixture of on-demand videos and LIVE webinars.
- Classes and Workshops share tools to promote resiliency and practice vulnerability
- SEL tools in Action:
- Self-Management
- Self-awareness
- Responsible decision making
- Social awareness
- Relationship skills
Virtual Program Options for Schools
Class Options
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- Mindfulness and the Formula for Change
- Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone and Analyzing Habits
- Responsibly Managing Emotions
- If You Really Knew Me, What’s Beneath Our Image?
- Resiliency Through Understanding Empathy
- Developing Self-Confidence and Goal Setting
Challenge Day Assembly
Provide students with a shared language and essential concepts of Challenge Day’s philosophies
Graduation Challenge Day
A rite of passage that gives 12th graders the opportunity to come together, reminisce and practice tools for the next phase in their lives
Faculty Workshop
Supports faculty and staff in creating connection and supports the drastic changes educators are experiencing
Parent Workshop
Provides participants with supportive tools and the opportunity to connect with others who are also faced with the unexpected challenges brought on by COVID-19
COMMUNITY AND ADULT WORKSHOPS: New Online Class Offerings
In the last couple of months, we have all been confronted with sudden and drastic changes and may be experiencing more stress than ever
Organizations globally have been severely impacted by COVID-19
- Our workshops are designed to give participants research-based tools and practices that can help mitigate some of this overwhelming stress, while also bringing communities together by providing a supportive outlet.
- With these practices in place participants can learn to be intentional about working through these unfamiliar situations and finding ways to deal with the discomfort.
We are here to help create connection and support emotional well-being during these unprecedented times. Workshops are designed to meet the needs of your community. Please reach out to discuss options.
Sample Workshops for Communities and Adults
- Mindfulness and the Formula for Change
- Understanding how mindfulness is a powerful tool for emotional well-being.
- A step-by-step process of self-inquiry that allows people to notice what they want to shift in their lives and make effective choices in order to take action.
- Defense Mechanisms and Breaking Habits
- Improved awareness of triggers during times of crisis.
- Acquisition of tools aiding in development of positive self-talk, happiness, gratitude, personal well-being.
- Understanding Philosophy of the Heart
- Unpacking the process by which our defenses and numbing strategies emerge to protect ourselves from trauma and coalesces into an “image”.
- Interactive discussion on the healing power of disclosing how we really feel with others as a means of building community.
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Featured on Oprah, MTV's If You Really Knew Me, and
Emmy award-winning Teen Files.
Oprah Winfrey
"I believe this is the very idea of Dr. King's dream fulfilled. It is the dream of giving hope a chance, giving peace a chance, giving love a chance. I'm not kidding when I say this is how we change the world."
Kristine Carlson
“I’ve been blessed to have served Challenge Day in many capacities over the years. Every teen who is touched by the miracle of connection that happens at Challenge Day will be forever changed and empowered. This program changes lives for the better and the world we live in becomes a better place.”
Reasons to Choose Challenge Day
Impactful
Challenge Day offers immediate results in just one day. Our experience-based learning process is more effective than longer programs requiring more school resources.
93% of students recommend our workshops
to family and friends.
93% of students recommend our workshops to family and friends
Highly-Trained Leaders
No training is required on your part. Our program experts are carefully selected and have passed our thorough qualification process. Two high-energy charismatic facilitators will come to your school or workplace.
20+ social and emotional learning experts who passed our 6-month full immersion training
Transformational
Challenge Day programs are a whole person experience. Instead of talking at people, our programs engage them in exercises that provoke deep internal insights and empathy for others.
91% of students feel more supportive of others after Challenge Day
Connected
Our carefully crafted and scripted exercises create a genuine connection between people and promote the experience of belonging. We often hear: “It was the best day of my life!”
80% of students feel more connected after Challenge Day
Improves Behavior
Challenge Day improves social and emotional health thereby reducing behavioral problems and increasing academic outcomes.
40% reduction of instances of negative student behavior
has been reported from our partner schools in Denver
Reliable
Our program is carefully designed to achieve standardized social and emotional outcomes in different school and community settings, ranging from alternative to public urban and rural, and charter and private schools.
We’ve held Challenge Days for 30 years in 2200
diverse schools and communities around the world
This is how
we change the world.
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