Activities designed to elevate our energy level, mood, and emotional well-being.
Celebrating Wins
When someone in the group achieves a goal, such as getting a job, initiating a difficult conversation, asking someone out, completing a project, the group marks it deliberately and enthusiastically.
Celebration is not just a nice gesture. It is a tool. When we celebrate together, we help each other’s brains associate effort and persistence with a rush of positive feeling, carried inside our bodies through the happiness hormones: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin. Over time this strengthens our resolve to keep going even when things are hard, because the nervous system has learned that success and uplifting celebration follows effort. The energy of one person’s win becomes contagious, inspiring and raising everyone’s sense of what is possible for them too.
Compliments Circle
One person sits in the center of the group. Everyone else takes turns offering that person genuine, true compliments, what they like about the person, and positive observations about them.
After receiving all the compliments, the person in the center shares what their “inner critic” voice is saying - the voice that is trying to dismiss or discount what was just said (“yes, but…”, “they’re just being nice”, “that’s not really true”, discounting the positives, etc.).
By naming and exposing this critical inner voice out loud, its power is reduced. The person is then better able to actually absorb and internalize the positive things the group reflected back to that person.
Laughter Yoga
Laughter exercises using playful techniques to trigger genuine laughter. For example, faking laughter until real laughter occurs, or imagining creating and drinking a “laughter shake.” Some exercises involve deliberately doing silly things like pulling faces, which can feel uncomfortable or awkward at first.
That mild discomfort is the point: it breaks through social conditioning and self-consciousness. The key is calibrating the silliness to the right level: enough to stretch people a little bit beyond their comfort zone, but never crossing into anything close to humiliating or disrespectful.
Physical Connection and Touch
Pleasant touch is one of the most direct ways to raise our vibration. Hugs and back massages between members are a natural and intentional part of group life, used as a deliberate tool.
The reason is physiological: touch releases oxytocin, the bonding hormone, as well as serotonin and dopamine. These chemicals don’t just make us feel good - they deepen trust, reduce stress, and create a felt sense of being held and supported by the group.
All touch is consensual and respectful. No one is ever expected to participate in anything they are not comfortable with.