Break a Board
Break Your Barrier
The Breakthrough Experience
Keynote | Workshop | Retreat
125,115 barriers broken over 30 years
The Board Breaking experience is more than simply breaking a piece of wood.
This experience is FUN AND TRANSFORMATIONAL.
We take participants through an immersive process that delivers profound insight and results. In this program, board breaking is used as a metaphor for shattering through a barrier that is holding someone back from taking their professional/personal life to the next level.
Unite the team.
Create a healthy team environment that fosters trust, boosts morale and improves performance. Through the connections made during the Board Breaking experience, participants bond together to create a resilient and motivated team.
Energize the party.
If you’re organizing a conference, retreat or on-boarding event, you want your participants to have fun! You want to create an event where people are laughing, hugging, encouraging each other and celebrating. Board breaking brings it all.
Create the memory of a lifetime.
What creates a long lasting memory? A unique high energy experience that keeps people deeply engaged while being emotionally meaningful. On the day of your event, most of your participants won’t wake up thinking they can break a board, but they will leave knowing they can. They can apply that mental toughness to their next challenge.
Schedule a 30-minute discovery call to see if Board Breaking is the right fit for you!
Why us?
With other board breaking options out there, how do you choose? Well, choosing us is easy because we have the experience, the positive feedback and most importantly, the results companies are looking for. After our program, your team is going to have better productivity, more positivity, more energy, more loyalty, and care about each other in a deeper, more meaningful way. We know this is a lot to claim. But we can make these claims because we’ve facilitated this program thousands of times over the past 30 years and many of our clients repeat the program. Still others have repeated it multiple times (one Fortune 500 client repeated it 44 times!). How can this be?
Because we deliver.
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Board breaking is perfect for all levels of your team, from front-line staff to managers to CEOs.
Onboarding Events
Start their employment with energy and authentic connections to shift recruits from feeling like outsiders to feeling like they belong
Conference opener.
Start your conference with high energy and fun! Conference attendees will be more likely to network and participate with other attendees after this uniquely powerful program
Retreats.
Create a bonding experience that takes your retreat to the next level
Conference closer.
End your conference with a bang! Participants will continue to be empowered and inspired long after the program is over
VIRTUAL & HYBRID
Virtual
Yes, you can do a completely virtual Board Breaking program! Everyone gets to break their own board in the comfort of their own space.
Hybrid
Some groups aren’t able to have all their participants present at an in-person event. In a hybrid program, virtual participants are often just an afterthought. Feeling left out, they check out. But in our hybrid Board Breaking program, we provide an additional facilitator who will run the virtual event concurrent with the in-person event. This creates a highly customized experience and significantly increases virtual attendees’ engagement and satisfaction.
We TAILOR the program...
To your THEME
We will weave in your event’s theme or specific message to create a unique experience for your participants.
To the group’s EMOTIONAL threshold:
Every group lands somewhere on an emotional spectrum. On one end, some groups want to have a great time and experience the thrill and excitement of having everyone break a board together. On the other end, some groups want to go deeper and focus on a longstanding barrier that might be emotionally challenging. We see a whole lot of hugs and sometimes tears on this end of the spectrum. And somewhere in the middle, most groups want to experience a meaningful program with an emphasis on fun that offers some opportunity for authentic connections. Through conversations with you and/or your committee, we’ll figure out together where your group fits on the emotional spectrum.
To the participants’ PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES:
You don’t have to be a black belt in karate or a body builder to break a board. Board breaking is for EVERYBODY. We’ve facilitated successful board breaking experiences with a wide range of ability levels. This includes people in wheel chairs, with walkers, octogenarians, quadriplegics, people who had degenerative arthritis, degenerative bone disease, multiple sclerosis, people who are nine months pregnant, who just broke an ankle the day before…and the list goes on. We have multiple techniques to meet every participant’s needs and abilities. For those who aren’t physically able to break a board, they are still able to have a powerful experience and break through a barrier with the help of a partner.
Click to learn about the DIFFERENT OPTIONS we employ to help participants break a board.
The foot technique provides participants the leverage of their body weight to break the board. This technique offers the highest level of success and is sometimes the best choice for participants with doubts or physical limitations.
This technique is most commonly taught. It is challenging yet accessible for most participants.
This technique is about inner power versus external force but only offers an estimated 80% success rate because participants can’t just muscle their way through the board. This option should only be used with a group able to access a place of clear intention and inner calm. This program is done with peaceful yet driving music as opposed to hype music. Some of those unable to break through often get the most out of the experience because they become very clear about what they need to work on in their professional/personal life.
Just like the hand technique- but double the boards offers double the challenge. This technique is perfect for groups repeating the board breaking program.
When all else fails, a hammer ought to do the trick. 100% success rate.
Multiple levels can be offered within the same program. Board breaking is a repeatable program. It can be done with the same group with increasingly difficult levels.
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT Board Breaking experience
This version of board breaking is a perfect fit for an all-female company, division or team. Led by a female facilitator, this program allows women to explore their personal power and support each other’s personal and professional growth. We don’t just talk about women’s empowerment, we embody it!
More about our facilitators
Troy Stende
Troy Stende has been breaking boards with people for over 30 years. He’s helped tens of thousands of people across the globe push past limitations and change their lives by breaking through barriers. Troy is a contributing author to numerous success and leadership books, including, College Success Secrets: They Don’t Teach You This in the Classroom. Troy is a three-time national best speaker winner and has been selected as one of the 125 Top Alumni at Black Hills State University. Troy stays active through Capoeira (Brazilian Martial Arts), yoga, pickleball and mountain biking.
Deanna Reiter, MA
Deanna Reiter, MA, is an award-winning speaker. For more than 17 years, she has provided speaking, leadership training and motivation to individuals, universities and corporations. She is the author of Dancing with Divinity: Positive Affirmations for Any Situation, The Nine Scoundrels: How to Recognize and Release Subtle Patterns of Sabotage, Running A to Z and How to Make More Money in the Fitness Industry. Deanna won the 1997 Palos Verdes marathon, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and was a self-defense instructor. She enjoys yoga and traveling.
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