Learn it
Speaking, workshops, the show and the books
Keynotes and workshops that open the door, plus a weekly show for the long haul.
Sprouting Change
The pressure isn't going away.
Let's get better at handling it.
The demands on people keep growing. When pressure outpaces capacity, performance and people both pay for it.
We help organizations build emotional endurance: practical skills to stay steady, communicate clearly, and recover faster when the pressure is on. In-person, virtual, and hybrid options for your group.
"Phenomenal! And needed more than ever!"
What we solve
Pressure is constant.
Capacity can be built.
Pressure
Deadlines, change, hard conversations, full plates. It isn't letting up.
Capacity
How much your people can carry before the strain shows up in their work and their relationships.
Emotional endurance
The capacity to stay steady when things get hard. And it's a skill people can build.
Sound familiar?
What pressure is costing
your organization.
Reactive communication
Short fuses, sharp emails, and conversations that escalate instead of resolve.
Decision fatigue
Capable people making slower, safer, or worse calls by mid-afternoon.
Strained relationships
Less patience, less trust, and more friction between people and teams.
Slow recovery
One hard day bleeds into the next week, and setbacks take longer to shake off.
These aren't just people problems.
They're signs of capacity under pressure.
How we build it: Learn it. Feel it. Grow it.
Feel it · our flagship
The Emotional Endurance Carnival
30+ interactive booths where people practice the skills and keep the ones that fit.
See the CarnivalGrow it
COPE365 and the EEA
Start with the Emotional Endurance Assessment, our proprietary measure, then keep building. Every Carnival includes a year of COPE365.
Explore COPE365The Emotional Endurance Carnival
Finally, professional development
people actually want to do.
Serious skills. Ridiculously fun delivery. 30+ interactive booths, each one a coping skill in disguise. People choose their own path, try what's new, and keep what works for them.
63%
left better equipped for the next hard day.
With specific tools they chose for themselves.
95%would tell a friend to come
7new skills unlocked per person, on average
2 in 3kept playing after they'd won their prize
Not a keynote
No hour in a chair, no slides about stress, no handout that never gets read.
Not one tool for everyone
Not every tool works for every person. People try a dozen and keep the few that fit.
Professional development everyone can play
Interactive, self-paced, and choose-your-own-path, so every person finds a way in.
The science is serious
The experience is fun.
Every booth is built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches. Conscious Coping© is the skill you use in the moment. Psychological capital is the reserve you draw on. Together they build emotional endurance.
Conscious Coping+
Psychological Capital=
Emotional Endurance
Who we are
A clinician and a behaviorist
walk into a carnival.
Laurie Sharp-Page, MS, LPCC-S, CWC
Co-Founder & Chief Coping Officer
A clinical counselor, author, speaker, and comedian who believes understanding ourselves shouldn't have to be so serious. Laurie combines clinical expertise with humor and practical tools to make the science of coping accessible, engaging, and genuinely useful in everyday life.
Crimson MacDonald
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
A marketing and political behaviorist who understands that knowing something and actually doing it are two very different things. Crimson turns behavioral science into creative, engaging experiences that challenge how people think, connect, and respond to the world around them.
Make your next event the one people talk about.
Life hands everybody lemons.
The Carnival teaches what to do next.
Organizations that have worked with us
