Healthy Habits • Strong Minds • Future-Ready Skills
kid-grit customizes every retreat to fit your goals and desired outcomes for youth. Let’s plan the right experience for them!
These thoughtfully designed, interactive workshops and retreats are built to engage youth in strengthening essential life skills while improving their connection to learning, peers, and their future.
Engaging, Age-appropriate Sessions:
Why It Matters:
These kid-grit experiences are energetic, hands-on, and designed to meet upper elementary students right where they are—helping them build habits and mindsets that will carry them through middle school and beyond.
Flexible formats available: single-day workshops, multi-week series, or full-day retreats.
Let’s partner to give your students the tools to grow, lead, and shine—together.
Dynamic, Hands-on Sessions:
Why It Matters:
These workshops are more than enrichment—they’re a launchpad for student success in and beyond the classroom.
Flexible formats available: single-day workshops, multi-week series, or full-day retreats.
Let’s collaborate to bring this impactful experience to your students.
Empowering Ages 18–24 with Real-World Skills That Matter
CONFIDENCE TO CAREER
Human Intelligence & Workforce Readiness for Lifelong Success
For adult learners, workforce-ready individuals, or those transitioning out of the foster care system, the kid-grit CONFIDENCE TO CAREER workshop series is designed to meet learners where they are—and help them move forward with confidence.
Our emotional intelligence & workforce readiness workshops address a growing gap in foundational professional skills—what we call the “lost art” of workplace and interpersonal excellence. Through highly engaging, hands-on sessions, we help all learners develop confidence, direction, and practical tools for long-term success.
Each workshop begins with a focus on a growth mindset, setting the stage for deeper learning.
Participants will explore and practice:
Our program(s) are ideal for schools, nonprofits, workforce development agencies, and foster youth transition programs looking to offer meaningful, future-ready training to the young adults they serve.
Let’s partner to build confident, employable, and inspired young professionals—ready to thrive in today’s evolving world.
Flexible formats available: single-day workshops, multi-week series, or full-day retreats.
In this workshop, we will explore the differences between being a student and how to become a scholar. We will take a deep dive into what scholars have meant traditionally and what a contemporary definition is for our future leaders today. The modern scholar can have a non-typical understanding and execution of what it means to be a specialized learner who is focused on curiosity and passion in a specific subject. These subjects have changed as have the current times. In this session, we unpack stereotypical views about what it means to be a ‘scholar’ in the 21st century.
In this engaging learning session for high school and college students or early careerists, we will explore essential communication strategies to improve your interactions and relationships. You’ll learn about “I” messages, a powerful tool for expressing your feelings and needs without blaming others, fostering a more understanding and respectful dialogue. We’ll also dive into the art of active listening, where you’ll practice giving your full attention to the speaker and reflecting on what you hear, ensuring clarity and empathy. Additionally, we’ll introduce the “sandwich” communication method, where you deliver constructive feedback by “sandwiching” it between positive comments, making it easier for others to accept and act upon. Join us to develop these crucial skills and enhance your ability to communicate effectively and positively with others!
“Oh my God! Can I do this? Count backward, imagine them naked, and stare above their heads”. The truth is, there is more to it than that! You never know when you will be expected to share your opinion in a meeting, when a future employer is standing next to you in an elevator, or when you might have to convince someone to support you. In this fun and activity-based session, we will help you build your confidence, self-management, and skill sets and be prepared to speak to anyone, anywhere, anytime!
You are not sure what to wear, have clammy hands, and only some answers. Where do you begin? How about with yourself! You are valuable and worth the job! From handshakes to wardrobe to eye contact, we will share and discuss how to build your interview toolbox and gather all the best tips so you can hit a home run at every job interview!
Do you think email is the most important form of communication in the 21st Century? Do you think well-crafted emails are a mark of your professional skills or part of your organization’s brand? Well, if it’s not on your list as the most utilized form of communication, you might be doing something wrong. If you want to be a top-level, competitive, and efficient employee/staff member in the 21st-century workspace, you better know the rules of email! The consequences can be crucial to your professional growth and your organization’s culture. Let’s discuss what can go wrong with email. Let’s count the ways…and fix them!
Session I: The Résumé Ready to make your résumé shine? This interactive session focuses on helping you craft a résumé that’s not only polished but full of personality. We’ll explore different formatting styles and guide you in highlighting your strengths, experiences, and achievements. Whether you’re starting from scratch or refreshing your current version, you’ll walk away with a document that gets noticed—for all the right reasons!
Session II: The Cover Letter Struggling to put your passion into words? This hands-on workshop is all about crafting compelling cover letters that speak directly to your dream job. We’ll walk you through structure, tone, and strategy, then dive into helping you articulate your unique voice and value. By the end, you’ll have a cover letter that feels authentic, confident, and ready to open doors.
Eye contact, a warm smile, speaking clearly, basic pleasantries, follow-up, and out-of-the-box thinking. If these are foreign to you, this workshop is for you or your staff! We will help participants understand who and what a stakeholder is. We will also share ideas on how to treat customers, internal colleagues, as well as partners, board members, etc., with respect and superior customer service. We go above and beyond to help participants understand the importance of branding, culture, and, of course, how to smile.
Underperforming, unsustainable, and underachieving…is this you? Is this your staff? You can’t expect to grow if you don’t know what your starting point is. Measuring success starts with trackable and tangible goals. In this workshop, participants will create structured goals that support the companies/ organizations’ annual and overarching goals, learn how to measure success, and develop an action plan. We will help companies and/or organizations improve while helping staff with direction and support with SMART goals.
Are you looking for ways to grow yourself or your staff? We will share professional moves that will jump-start your career and help you stand out from the rest! In this workshop, we will cover the informational interview, how to get a ‘professional’ mentor, and how to run an effective meeting. It’s time to shine!
There is no better way to “ace” an interview than to practice, practice, and practice more! In this session, we will work with early careerists in a role-play scenario for the interview of a lifetime. We will train and prepare program/organization staff to be the interviewers and provide feedback surveys and recaps for all students. It’s time to shine! This session requires staff participation and should be paired with previous kid-grit sessions as a culminating event.
*These workshops are also available as a training-of-trainer for organizations and programs that are direct service providers.
