Creative Workshops That Build Connection & Care
For educators, social workers, and community leaders
GRATITUDE + FRIENDSHIP
"You Matter" Letter Writing Workshop
An uplifting, participatory workshop that helps people recognize the care in their lives and express their gratitude to loved ones. Inspired by a powerful true story.
EMOTION LITERACY
Strengthen Your Emotional Capacity
A playful, science-informed workshop about neuroception, emotions, nervous-system regulation, and making caring choices under stress.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Community-Care Strategies for Leaders
A practical, prevention-focused workshop for educators, social workers, caregivers, and community leaders working with children & teens.
Learn It. Make It.
Take It Home.
Creative learning that stays with you.
Activate Your Strength® workshops bring together personal stories, practical learning, and hands-on art to help people strengthen their capacity to care — for themselves and others.
Every workshop includes an opportunity to create something meaningful: a heartfelt "You Matter Letter," a personal Regulation Toolbox, or a starter kit for running a Gratitude Campaign in your community.
Participants leave with tools they can use immediately, along with access to Anne's online resource library to continue learning and practicing long after the workshop ends.
This Complimentary Learning Library Includes Six Programs:
SELF-AWARENESS
Take Stock
Discover What You Need
Check in with five essential areas of wellbeing —comfort, safety, belonging, freedom, and hope —and recognize where a little extra care might help.
NERVOUS SYSTEM CARE
Regulate Your Body
Find Your Balance
Learn to recognize your body's stress responses and explore simple breathing, movement, and grounding exercises to create your own regulation toolbox.
EMOTION LITERACY
Name Your Feelings
Befriend Your Emotions
Explore more than 30 illustrated emotions with audio reflections, helpful questions, and practical ways to make empowered choices.
ENCOURAGEMENT
Call A Friend
Listen to a Gentle Pep Talk
Feel understood, and a little less alone, with 20+ gentle, prerecorded pep talks offering encouragement through life's difficult moments.
VALUES + PURPOSE
Listen to Your Heart
Explore What Matters Most
Explore 74 heartfelt values through gentle audio reflections and journaling prompts that help you reconnect with what matters to you.
GROWTH + EMPOWERMENT
Make A Change
Turn Insight Into Action
Did you know stress is your rocket fuel for change? Follow a four-step cycle to help you respond to your needs, and become a better friend to yourself and others.
THESE ONLINE RESOURCES ARE
Rooted in a Lifetime of Learning & Healing
As the daughter of a war refugee, Anne grew up learning about the human capacity to heal, grow, and find meaningful moments after hardship. Those early lessons shaped a lifelong exploration of what helps people stay connected and caring through difficult times.
Over the past twenty-five years, Anne has deepened her understanding through the study of biology, philosophy, art, psychology, eastern and western religions, and her work on her nonprofit, Look for the Good Project.
Be the Friend You Need brings these lessons together through practical tools, original audio reflections, and exercises adapted from Anne's illustrated books.
Host a Workshop
Interested in hosting an event? Share a few details about your group. Each workshop includes: Live facilitation with Anne, hands-on activities, take-home materials, and complimentary access to all six online learning resources for every participant.
Meet Anne Kubitsky
Public Artist • Author & Illustrator • Educator
Anne Kubitsky is the creator of Activate Your Strength, LLC and the Founder of Look for the Good Project, a nonprofit that has reached more than 700,000 children in almost 50 states through gratitude, kindness, and community-care programming.
Anne's work began more than 15 years ago with a simple question: What makes you grateful? What started as a participatory public-art project grew into a nationwide movement, inspiring school programs and community experiences that help people recognize the good in themselves, one another, and the world around them.
Anne has authored and illustrated 30 books, including educational resources she has contributed to Look for the Good Project. Starting in 2014, Anne helped popularize her trademarked terms "Look for the Good" and "You Matter", and in 2015, the City of Hartford, Connecticut, honored her work with an official “Look for the Good Day Day” proclamation on April 19th.
ANNE IS A RECIPIENT OF THE
“Your efforts are a remarkable example of the generosity and compassion that make our communities stronger.”
GEORGE HW BUSH
FORMER US PRESIDENT
(Endorsed in 2015)
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Can't Bring a Workshop to Your Community?
Join Anne online instead!
Beginning in January 2027, Anne will introduce Be the Friend You Need through a live, interactive online seminar. Participants will explore practical ways to understand their emotions, recognize stress responses, discover what they need, and take meaningful steps toward greater wellbeing.
The experience includes access to Anne's six-part online resource library, with videos, guided reflections, audio encouragement, and practical tools participants can revisit at their own pace.
