Tunnel of Tiny Triggers
Feel how fast everyday sounds and pings put your body on alert.
Step right up
The Emotional Endurance
Carnival
A traveling midway of 30+ hands-on booths where your people practice real coping skills, find the ones that fit, and take them home. We bring it to your conference, workplace, or school and run it from start to finish.
Not therapy. Not toxic positivity. A new way of handling hard things.
What it is
Professional development people
actually get up for.
You can't think your way out of a stress response. You practice your way out. Every booth is a real regulation skill in the shape of a game, so people feel what works instead of hearing about it.
Hands-on
Practice, not lecture
Toss, tap, call, pause, look again. People try skills with their bodies, not just their notebooks.
Self-paced
Choose your own adventure
Start anywhere, skip anything, stay as long as you like. Five booths unlocks the prize booth.
Personal
Not one tool for everyone
People try a dozen and keep the few that actually fit them. That's why they use them later.
Done for you
We run the whole thing
We bring the midway, set it up, staff it, and pack it out. You bring the people.
Not left hanging
We don't leave you hanging
Every attendee leaves with COPE365, so the skills keep working long after the tent comes down.
How it works
A walk down the midway,
step by step.
- 01
Step in
Attendees enter through the marquee and the Tunnel of Tiny Triggers, and feel their nervous system switch on.
- 02
Learn the why
Short teaching banners explain what's happening in the body, in plain language.
- 03
Play the booths
Each booth is a skill. People try them, notice which ones help, and save their favorites on their phone.
- 04
Claim a prize
Five booths unlocks the prize booth. Two in three keep going after they've earned it.
- 05
Take it home
They leave with the skills that worked for them, and a path to keep practicing with COPE365.
Welcome to the midway
30+ booths.
Every one a skill.
Sensory, playful, quiet, social. Something lands for everyone. A few favorites:
Plus:
Tap-O-Rama
Helpie-Selfie
Name Your Lemon
Life's Lemons
Relaxation Station
The Prize Booth
A virtual arcade
and more
The science is serious
Lemonade can't be made
in protection mode.
The Carnival is built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches, including ACT, DBT, and existential psychotherapy. The carnival part just makes the practice stick.
- Protection, not malfunctionYour nervous system protects you first and asks questions later: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
- You can exit the roller coasterA wave of emotion usually lasts about 90 seconds. Regulating helps you ride it out.
- The shift is the first squeezeEvery booth practices the shift out of protection mode and back to your words, your view, and your empathy.
Word on the midway
We asked for five.
They did ten.
95%would tell a friend to come
34 minof hands-on practice, on average
7new skills unlocked per person
8.1/10overall rating from attendees
"80% of the things I tried didn't work for me, but the 20% that did were the really, really important ones that I just needed."
"I was surprised by how much I was being triggered by the trigger tunnel. But I really enjoyed the different opportunities to work through those things."
Who it's for
One Carnival.
Sized to your room.
Conferences and associations
The part of your conference people talk about.
Runs alongside your sessions or as its own block, and moves a crowd through in a lunch break. Member value that lasts long after the expo hall closes.
Teams and organizations
A team day that actually builds something.
No lectures, no awkward trust falls. A shared language for handling pressure, tailored to work, home, and life.
Schools and districts
Emotional education that feels like an adventure.
Designed for ages 13 and up. Students explore what's happening in their nervous systems, and what they can do about it.
Meet your
Ringmasters
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 behavioral and marketing strategist 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.
Before you ask
Fair questions from
fair hosts.
Safe, private, and optional at every step.
Is this therapy?
No. It's skill-building, not treatment. People learn and practice tools for handling stress. Not therapy, and not toxic positivity.
Is it based on real science?
Yes. It's built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches, including ACT, DBT, and existential psychotherapy.
Do people have to do every booth?
Never. Anyone can skip, modify, or exit anything without explanation. Five booths unlocks the prize booth; the rest is choose-your-own-adventure.
What if something hits a nerve?
People go at their own pace and can revisit the calming booths as often as they like. Crisis resources, including 988, are posted on site.
Is attendee information private?
Yes. Gameplay is anonymous, and photos and videos save only to each person's own phone.
Who is it for?
Ages 13 and up. Built for real humans with real nervous systems; no wellness fluency required.
What does it take to host one?
A room and your people. We bring and staff everything else, and size the midway to your space and headcount.
How much does it cost?
Every Carnival is built for your event, so pricing depends on size and setup. Book the Carnival and we'll put together a plan for your event.
After the tent comes down
They found what works.
Now they make it stick.
Every attendee leaves with an invitation to keep practicing with COPE365, starting with the EEA, our proprietary Emotional Endurance Assessment.
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