Tunnel of Tiny Triggers
Feel how fast everyday sounds and pings put your body on alert.
Sprouting Change presents
The Emotional Endurance
Carnival
Serious skills. Ridiculously fun delivery.
A hands-on midway of 30+ booths, each one a real coping skill in disguise. People try a dozen, keep the few that fit, and leave with tools they've already practiced.
"Phenomenal! And needed more than ever!"
The proof is on the midway
We asked for five.
They did ten.
People don't sit through the Carnival. They work their way through it, and then ask for more.
95%would tell a friend to come
10hands-on activities each, when we asked for five
2 in 3kept going after they'd already earned their prize
63%left with specific tools they chose themselves
A new kind of professional development
Not a keynote. Not a workshop.
Not a wellness fair.
You can't think your way out of a stress response. You practice your way out. The Carnival is where people practice.
The usual
An hour in a chair
Slides about stress, a handout, and back to the same day that caused it.
The usual
One tool for everyone
Breathe, journal, take a walk, whether or not it fits the person in front of you.
The Carnival
On your feet, trying things
People choose their own path down the midway, feel what works for them, and keep those skills.
Step right up
Every booth is a
coping skill in disguise.
Each one puts people at the Activation Point: the split second between what happens and how they respond. Not every tool works for every person, so they try plenty and keep what fits.
Plus 24 more booths, a prize booth, and a virtual arcade.
In their words
They found
what fits.
"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."
"It's all related to psychology and biology, and then also some really tangible and very fun games."
"I currently recognize when I'm going to blow my top and I take a pause and go count in my room. Now I'll tap too. I learned that here."
"I like that you can go with it at your own pace."
Who it's for
One Carnival.
Built for your crowd.
Conferences and associations
What if the most memorable part of your conference wasn't a session?
Member value people talk about long after the expo hall closes.
For your next eventTeams and organizations
What if your next team day actually built something?
No lectures, no awkward trust falls. A shared language for handling pressure.
For your teamSchools and districts
What if emotional education felt more like an adventure?
Students explore what's happening in their nervous systems, and what they can do about it.
For your schoolThe science is serious
The experience
is anything but.
Every booth is built on our neuroscience-backed framework. Conscious Coping © is the skill you use in the moment. Psychological capital is the reserve that keeps you steady. Together they build emotional endurance: the capacity to handle hard things without breaking down.
Conscious Coping+
Psychological Capital=
Emotional Endurance
Explore the framework
Our differentiator
The EEA: emotional endurance, measured.
The Emotional Endurance Assessment is our proprietary assessment, built by Sprouting Change co-founders Crimson MacDonald, a behaviorist, and Laurie Sharp-Page, a clinical counselor. It measures the reserve people bring into every hard moment, and shows them where to build next.
Attendees can take it inside COPE365 after the Carnival.
Learn about the EEAThe Carnival is just the beginning
Learn it.
Feel it.
Keep it.
Learning is part of it. Feeling it is the bigger part.
Learn it
The Movement and speaking
Our mental health variety show, plus talks that open the door at your event.
Feel it · the flagship
The Emotional Endurance Carnival
30+ booths where people practice the skills and find the ones that fit.
Book the Carnival
Keep it
COPE365
Start with the EEA, then keep the tools sharp long after the tent comes down.
Explore COPE365Who 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 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.
Make your next event the one people talk about.
Life hands everybody lemons. Bring the Carnival and let your people find out what they do next.
Every Carnival is sized to your room. Book a call for pricing.