Book A Heat Check
Length: 60 minutes
Best for: Public events, campuses, conferences, leadership programs, and first-time Heat Check experiences
Includes:
Length: 2 hours
Best for: Groups that want more participant rotation, multiple debate rounds, and deeper audience reflection
Includes everything in the Signature Event, plus:
Length: Half-day to multi-day event
Best for: Leadership cohorts, student leaders, professional teams, facilitators, and groups wanting training alongside the live experience
Includes:
FAQ
Heat Check is an educational experience. It allows participants to apply the benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction in real time. In our current climate, there is nothing more important than knowing how to navigate conflict in productive ways. With Heat Check, your participants will benefit from actively learning these skills in a fun, no-stress environment.
Heat Check is a format designed for fun. The lightness and engaging nature of the event removes any stress or shame from the fact that we all get activated sometimes. The education participant receive is experiential–which is known to be the best way to retain new information. Participants watch, learn, and participate in a format that makes sense to them.
Participants play one of three roles: flag facilitator, debate participant, or audience member.
Bringing attention to our own activation on a physical, non-intellectual level helps us:
Note: These skills are especially valuable when navigating social media and other algorithmically motivated sources of information that are designed to promote activation.
Heat Check works with our hosts to determine which topics fit your organization. Topics range from debating college course requirements to local policies on environmental regulation to the use of AI in education. We pick topics designed for practice. We never debate the value of a person and we never shame anyone for their ideas.
Heat Check posts edited episodes on YouTube for participants to share with friends and family. Our goal in sharing our show is to demonstrate the value of mindful awareness in conflict resolution. We seek to counter negative online content with educational demonstrations of healthy, innovative debate.
To host Heat Check, the organization typically provides:
Heat Check can be staged in an auditorium, lecture hall, conference room, theater, studio, event space, student center, or flexible gathering space.
Cirak provides:
The format can be adapted to the needs of the host, audience, and setting.
Heat Check is designed to be challenging but respectful.
The event is not therapy, political advocacy, or religious teaching.
It is a live educational experience in self-regulation, dialogue, and presence under pressure.
Core principles:
Participants are invited to disagree honestly while learning how to stay connected to themselves and the room.
Interest Form
Interested in bringing Heat Check to your campus, organization, conference, event, or community? Tell us what you have in mind.
