Grit Vancouver

Grit Vancouver In our effort to combat youth anxiety, we’ll use mindfulness exercises and yoga-inspired movement, to clear the stress around school/friends/activities.

As another year of Grit in Schools comes to a close, I’m struck—again—by how much everything happens in relationship. I ...
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. 💛

As another year of Grit in Schools comes to a close, I’m struck—again—by how much everything happens in relationship. I ...
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. 💛

Grit Winter Check Up 7-10yrsEast Van: Sunday, December 28 / 1-4pmNorth Van: Sunday, January 4 / 1-4pmCast your mind past...
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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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 ...
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!

The most common request I hear from parents is for help navigating their kids’ friendship dynamics — what we sometimes c...
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 👍🏽

Friendship Lab — is a practical, mindful workshop for grades 1-3, where kids explore big emotions, role-play tricky frie...
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 🤜🏼🧠

Kids don’t actually mean to be mean.In grades 1–3, kids are just beginning to explore how friendships and social power w...
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?

Grit Check up7-10yrsSunday October 19 1-4pmShift Dance AcademyHow’s it all going out there friends?! Most of our Grit fo...
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.

🍂🍁🍃♥️

How is your team doing?Do you need to boost brain-health? Address overwhelm?  Build a more cohesive group? Give your tea...
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]

In our Grit for Parents workshop we dive into how to support our kids through an emotional storm. We talk about using ne...
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! 😂🤪)

If our goal as parents is to raise resilient, emotionally intelligent kids, we first need to practice those skills ourse...
09/15/2025

If our goal as parents is to raise resilient, emotionally intelligent kids, we first need to practice those skills ourselves.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into:
👉🏽How kids’ and adults’ brains work
👉🏽The neuroscience of calm
👉🏽Self-regulation through co-regulation.

Join us for a light-hearted, interactive session at your child’s school.

You’ll walk away with practical tools, fresh insights, and a deeper understanding of how to support your child—and yourself ♥️.

Ask your school to book it!

The prefrontal cortex (responsible for self-regulation) is still developing in kids, so they rely on the mature nervous ...
09/15/2025

The prefrontal cortex (responsible for self-regulation) is still developing in kids, so they rely on the mature nervous systems around them (basically parents and teachers).

How do we support our own brain health in order to model that for our kiddos?

Let’s chat in a Grit for Parents Workshop 👉🏽🧠

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