The Emotional Endurance Carnival
The Emotional Endurance Carnival is a traveling midway of 30+ interactive 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.
See it in action
The booths, the games, and what people said on the way out.
What it is
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
People practice skills in real time, not just think about them.
Self-paced
Start anywhere, skip anything, stay as long as you like.
Personal
People try several and keep the ones that fit them.
Grow it
Every attendee gets a year of COPE365, so their practice continues long after the tent comes down.
How it works
Short teaching banners explain what's happening in the body, in plain language.
Attendees walk through the Tunnel of Tiny Triggers and feel their nervous system switch on.
Each booth is a skill. People try them, notice which ones help, and save their favorites.
Five booths unlocks the prize booth. Two in three keep going after they've earned it.
They leave with the skills that work for them, a year of COPE365, and a common language that keeps your team steady.
Sensory, playful, quiet, social. Something lands for everyone. A few favorites:
Feel how fast everyday sounds and pings put your body on alert.
When the lemon pops up, wait. Practice the pause before you react.
Pick up the phone and say what you need to say. Naming it helps it settle.
Same moment, different reflection. Changing your perspective can change your response.
Cold, sour, scent. Quick ways to bring a racing body back to the room.
Sort what's on your plate into home, work, and life, and decide what to carry.
Built on science
The Carnival is built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches. The Carnival part makes the practice fun, which helps it stick.
It builds practical skills for:
Word on the midway
In their words
"Taking the time to stop and try different coping strategies made me really reflect on whether or not the strategies I've been using are working for me."
"Really tangible and very fun games."
"It helped me remember a few tools that I'd forgotten, and it also gave me a couple new ones."
"I like that you can go with it at your own pace."
"Very inviting. Very interactive and so fun!"
"This put things I have been reading and learning this year into a vivid and tactile reality."
"Made me realize how my impulsive reactions can be reckless... and gave me responsive skills to use instead."
Who it's for
Conferences & associations
Runs alongside your sessions or as its own block, and we do all the heavy lifting. Member value that lasts long after the expo hall closes.
Download the one-pager (PDF)Teams & organizations
No lectures, no awkward trust falls. A shared language for handling pressure, tailored to your industry's unique needs and challenges.
Download the one-pager (PDF)Schools & districts
Designed for ages 13 and up. Students explore what's happening in their nervous systems, and what they can do about it.
Download the one-pager (PDF)
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.
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.
FAQ
Safe, private, and optional at every step.
No. It's skill-building, not treatment. People learn and practice tools for handling stress. Not therapy, and not toxic positivity.
Yes. It's built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches.
Never. Anyone can skip, modify, or exit anything without explanation. Five booths unlocks the prize booth; the rest is choose-your-own-adventure.
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.
Yes. Gameplay is anonymous, and photos and videos save only to each person's own phone.
Ages 13 and up. Built for real humans with real nervous systems; no wellness fluency required.
A room and your people. We bring and staff everything else, and size the midway to your space and headcount.
Every Carnival is built for your event, so pricing depends on size and setup. Schedule a discovery call and we'll put together a plan for your event.
Bring the Carnival to your people
