General Challenges

These five challenges can help you and your team create greater wholeness in your lives.

  • The Habit Creation Challenge: Explore habits like mindfulness and gratitude for a week, then choose one and spend three weeks developing it with the support of your team.

  • The Life Story Challenge: Explore your identity by crafting a narrative of your past, present, and future, gaining clarity on who you are.

  • The Goal Setting Challenge: Set and refine goals across vocational, relational, and mind-body areas, providing a structured approach to identify and prioritize targets in these key aspects of your life.

  • The DBT Skills Challenge: Learn and practice DBT skills to better enhance mindfulness, regulate emotions, manage distress, and improve your relationships.

See below for more details on each challenge.

Habit Creation Challenge

Overview

Healthy habits are the foundation for a healthy life. The Habit Creation Challenge is designed to help you explore and establish healthy habits that can enhance your well-being. During this challenge, you'll delve into practices such as mindfulness, compassion, visualization, reflection, acceptance, and gratitude. After exploring these practices, you’ll choose one habit to focus on and commit to it for three weeks.

Throughout the challenge, you’ll learn a simple yet effective method to maintain your chosen habit, while also building mutual encouragement and support within your team. Whether you're just beginning your journey toward better habits or looking to strengthen existing ones, this challenge is an excellent place to start.

Ideal Participants

This challenge may be a good fit for you if:

  • You have a specific habit that you would like to develop.  

  • You want to enjoy greater health and wellbeing on a daily basis. 

  • You have struggled to create beneficial habits in the past.  

Details

This challenge is usually done with a team and lasts for a month, with the first week requiring 5 - 15 minutes per day and the last three weeks requiring less time and effort. After the first week, another challenge can easily be started and done concurrently, allowing you to continue your journey toward holistic well-being without interruption.

Visit: The Habit Creation Challenge

Life Story Challenge

Overview

The Life Story Challenge is a powerful experience designed to help you clarify and refine your personal identity. Through this challenge, you'll explore the profound impact of stories and how their plots and themes create deep meaning in our lives.

You will explore your own story, reflecting on your past experiences, identifying your present passions, and envisioning your future goals. As you craft the story of your life, you'll learn to stay true to the facts while also shaping a narrative that propels you toward the life you want to live.

You are a storyteller, and the stories you tell have immense power. This challenge will help you unlock the potential of your personal stories, guiding you toward a more meaningful and intentional life.

Ideal Participants

This challenge may be a good fit for you if:

  • You want to understand your past and how you got to where you are today. 

  • You want to understand who you are now and the factors that have affected your personal identity.   

  • You want to build a future that is deeply meaningful and fulfilling to you.  

Details

This challenge is usually done in a team and consists of 12 group discussions, followed by an experience where you write your life story. Most groups hold one discussion each week, lasting 30 to 60 minutes, which requires around 15 minutes of preparation—for a total commitment of 45 to 75 minutes per week. The life story writing activity at the end can vary in time commitment, depending on the method the group chooses, making it either a smaller or larger endeavor.

Visit: The Life Story Challenge

DBT Skills Challenge

Overview

The DBT Skills Challenge is rooted in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a therapeutic approach developed by Marsha Linehan. DBT focuses on the learning and application of practical skills to help you become more effective at building the life you want to live. While it is particularly effective in treating certain mental health conditions, many people who learn these skills believe they could be beneficial for everyone.

In this challenge, you will explore and practice key DBT skills in four areas: mindfulness, emotion regulation, relationship effectiveness, and distress tolerance. By integrating these skills into your daily life, you'll become more adept at managing emotions, improving your relationships, and handling stress. This challenge is designed to empower you to live more intentionally and effectively, creating the life you desire.

Ideal Participants

This challenge is especially suitable for individuals who:

  • Seek Emotional Mastery: You're looking to gain better control over your emotions to improve your general well-being.

  • Desire Stronger Relationships: You aim to enhance your interpersonal skills to build more fulfilling relationships.

  • Pursue Mindfulness and Stress Management: You want to develop mindfulness practices and strategies to tolerate distress in various life situations.

Details

This challenge is usually done in a team and typically takes about a year to complete. Participants spend a week learning each of approximately 50 different skills. Teams usually meet for 60 minutes each week, and participants typically spend 5 to 20 minutes outside of the meeting working on the skill—for a total commitment of 65 to 80 minutes per week. In each discussion, a new skill is introduced, then it is practiced during the week, with learnings discussed in the following session before a new skill is introduced for the week ahead.

This challenge also requires participants to obtain a copy of the “DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets: Second Edition” by Marsha Linehan. Millions of people have been positively impacted by Marsha Linehan’s brilliant work, and this challenge gives you the opportunity to benefit from it as well.

Visit: The DBT Skills Challenge

Goal Setting Challenge

Overview

The Goal Setting Challenge is designed to help you and your team set and achieve meaningful goals by focusing on three key areas of life:

  • Vocational Goals: Define clear objectives related to your roles at home and/or work, enhancing personal and professional development.

  • Relational Goals: Improve interpersonal relationships by establishing objectives that foster stronger connections with family, friends, and colleagues.

  • Mind-Body Goals: Promote physical and mental well-being through goals that focus on health, fitness, and psychological resilience.

Throughout the challenge, you'll work collaboratively to identify and prioritize goals within these areas, employing strategies that ensure success in achieving them.

Ideal Participants

This challenge may be a good fit for you if:

  • You want to set and achieve goals: You're looking to make significant improvements in your roles at home or work, personal relationships, or health.

  • You want a structure to help with your goals: You need a structured approach to goal setting that addresses multiple aspects of life.

  • You want the support of a team: You appreciate the support and accountability that comes from working within a team.

Details

This challenge is typically conducted with a team and includes a series of 6 weekly group discussions, each lasting 30 to 60 minutes, with about 10 to 20 minutes of preparation time required per session. By the end of the challenge, you and your team will have established a clear set of goals across vocational, relational, and mind-body areas, along with a plan to achieve them.

Visit: The Goals Setting Challenge

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