Grit Vancouver, North Vancouver, BC (2026)

02/09/2026

Ten years ago, if you told me I’d be leading workshops for athletes, I would’ve laughed. And yet — here we are.

Working with young athletes on mental toughness, using anxiety as fuel, and handling pressure is hands-down one of my favorite things right now. That’s grit.

Grateful to have presented at the Wickfest girls hockey tournament + conference and with hockey teams across North Van.

These athletes are driven, competitive, and ready to level up their mindset to match their physical game. 🧠💪

02/09/2026

Hey gang, we are starting to fill up for the 2026/27 school year for Grit in Schools.

If you’d like to get some grit into your school - reach out and let’s make a plan.

Here’s an overview of what we’re offering:

👉🏻Grit in Schools gr 4-7
4 weeks of science-backed workshops in school-time to promote emotional resilience, self-regulation, pro-social behaviour and mental agility.

Our light-hearted, fast-paced workshops focus on practical skills for self-regulation, self-awareness, self-preservation + self-knowledge.

👉🏻Friendship Lab gr 1-3
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 gr 3-6
A workshop held at lunch in your kiddo’s 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.

Lots more info on www.gritworkshops.ca or reach out with any questions!
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12/15/2025

As another year of Grit in Schools comes to a close, I’m struck—again—by how much everything happens in relationship. I feel incredibly grateful to be invited back to the same schools year after year, building meaningful connections with students, teachers, and administrators along the way.

A special shout-out this school year to:
👉🏻Brockton School — Marcha, Christine, Stuart, and all the Grade 5s
👉🏻Collingwood School — Shelley and the Grade 7s
👉🏻Upper Lynn Elementary — the incredible Grades 3–6 who keep showing up for Lunch Grit, and powerhouse PAC parent Holly.

Also so looking forward to returning in the new year to:
👉🏻Blueridge Elementary — Maryn and the Grades 4–7s
👉🏻Highlands Elementary — powerhouse PAC parent Lindsay R
👉🏻Ridgeway Elementary — powerhouse PAC parent Char

And of course, we’re always thrilled to begin new relationships as well.
A big thank-you this year to:
👉🏻Queen Mary Elementary
👉🏻Eastview Elementary
👉🏻 École André-Piolat

So grateful. 💛

12/15/2025

As another year of Grit in Schools comes to a close, I’m struck—again—by how much everything happens in relationship. I feel grateful to be invited back to the same schools year after year, building meaningful connections with students, teachers, and administrators along the way.

A special shout-out this school year to:
👉🏻Brockton School — Marcha, Christine, Stuart, and all the Grade 5s
👉🏻Collingwood School — Shelley and the Grade 7s
👉🏻Upper Lynn Elementary — the incredible Grades 3–6 who keep showing up for Lunch Grit, and powerhouse PAC parent Holly.

I’m also so looking forward to returning in the new year to:
👉🏻Blueridge Elementary — Maryn and the Grades 4–7s
👉🏻Highlands Elementary — powerhouse PAC parent Lindsay R
👉🏻Ridgeway Elementary — powerhouse PAC parent Char

And of course, we’re always thrilled to begin new relationships as well.
A big thank-you this year to:
👉🏻Queen Mary Elementary
👉🏻Eastview Elementary
👉🏻École André-Piolat

So grateful. 💛

12/06/2025

Grit Winter Check Up 7-10yrs

East Van: Sunday, December 28 / 1-4pm
North Van: Sunday, January 4 / 1-4pm

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).

Join us for a Grit Winter Check-Up.

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.

East Van at
North Van at
$60 / scholarships always available

Registration is open / links in bio
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10/20/2025

Hey gang!

We have one 6 week spot open for Lunch Grit this fall: Wednesdays Nov 5-Dec 10 12-1pm.

It’s the perfect break for kids half way through the week to check in, take a breather from playground politics, stay warm and dry, and be filled up with good + calm.

Good for either grades 3-5 or 6-7 and needs to be North or West Van (just for logistics in this specific time slot).

LMK if your school wants it!

10/07/2025

The most common request I hear from parents is for help navigating their kids’ friendship dynamics — what we sometimes call playground politics.

Friendships are tricky. And elementary school is both the training ground and the fire pit.
It’s easy to blame individual kids for certain behaviours, to label someone “the bully.” But that helps no one — and it misses a deeper truth: at some point in our lives, we’ve all been both the bully and the bullied.

So let’s dig in. Let’s figure this out together. Let’s give kids the tools to turn those hard emotions — jealousy, anger, insecurity, the deep need to belong — into actions of kindness and inclusion.

Because when we do, we lay the foundation for pro-social behaviour that lasts a lifetime.

Friendship Lab / available to grades 1-3 / booked through your school 👍🏽

10/07/2025

Friendship Lab — is a practical, mindful workshop for grades 1-3, 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.

Ask your PAC to reach out and book it in. alix@gritworkshops.ca 🤜🏼🧠

10/07/2025

Kids don’t actually mean to be mean.

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.

You in?

09/22/2025

Grit Check up
7-10yrs
Sunday October 19
1-4pm
Shift Dance Academy

How’s it all going out there friends?! Most of our Grit for Kids programs run in schools now but we’ve had such an overwhelming ask for something more. And so we’d love your person to join our Grit Fall Check Up!

Grit kids will walk away with:

👉🏽Tools to self-regulate in times of high emotion
👉🏽Tips for dealing with playground politics (relational + in-your-face aggression)
👉🏽An awareness of why their unique-ness is integral
👉🏽Grit journal + stickers to keep track of how things are going (and to bring back to the Grit Winter Check Up)
👉🏽 3 addressed Grit postcards to be mailed to Alix with questions / thoughts / problems / solutions throughout the year

$60 (scholarships always available)

Registration is open as of right now! Link in bio.

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09/18/2025

How is your team doing?

Do you need to boost brain-health?
Address overwhelm?
Build a more cohesive group?
Give your team the gift of improved resilience and fortitude?

We turn cutting-edge brain science into workshops that boost resilience, satisfaction, and happiness at work [in a practical, light-hearted, no-nonsense sort of way], and - we are offering a workplace grit workshop for your team at no charge this Fall.

👉🏽What you get:
A 2hr workshop for up to 20 people, in person, in your workplace.
$1550 value

Team members will leave with the ability to:

👉🏽recognize their emotional response/reaction style

👉🏽understand the neuroscience behind anxiety, pressure and overwhelm

👉🏽integrate the neuroscience of meditation into their daily routine

👉🏽identify tools for self-regulation / self-regulation through co-regulation

👉🏽practice how to change a stress response into a challenge response (stress-fuel)

👉🏽apply emotional regulation skills to improve team collaboration, conflict resolution, and overall workplace well-being.

Employees may experience a sense of empowerment, calm, and inspiration, along with the ability to step back and gain perspective—resulting in increased clarity and productivity.

First come, first served!
Let’s chat 😊
[lots more info on www.gritworkshops.ca]

09/15/2025

In our Grit for Parents workshop we dive into how to support our kids through an emotional storm.

We talk about using neuroscience and psychology to help them transition from the back of their brain to the front, and we talk about being an anchor in their emotional storm.

It works to grow an emotionally healthy brain in kids - but shockingly, also works for anyone we’re in a relationship with. (For more relationship advice, follow me! 😂🤪)

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