Eight principles
in eight workshops

We’ve worked with some of the top companies in the world to uncover the needed skills to succeed in today’s world.

“Caveday instilled ideas that we can easily adopt into our everyday lives." 

-Allison Murphy

“I have never seen this research put into practice in such a thoughtful way.”

-Phillip Tiongson

“Caveday works. The hands-on workshops helped my team develop new habits.”

-Skye Suttie

This workshop is about the fundamental tools and practices needed for optimal knowledge work. We’ll talk about our relationship to work and introduce the forces that shape that relationship. Then, we’ll introduce a framework for thinking about improving that relationship through focus. This session includes a 30 minute work sprint, so bring something to work on.

Learn the foundational concept of deep work and how we can reach our peak performance. The framework here is based on how top athletes and musicians get into an altered state of consciousness and how we can intentionally get there in our work. We’ll learn to trick our brain on how to get into “flow.” Finally, we’ll summarize the tips for finding flow and doing deep work, whatever and wherever your work might be.

In this workshop, we’ll dive deep into our brain to better understand our nervous system. It’s responsible for our alertness and activating our focus. Not just that, but there are obvious players trying to vie for our attention (eg technology and other people) We’ll explore ways to protect your focus and consider new ways to remove distractions and overcome interruptions.

You'll learn the principles of energy management in this workshop. How to identify and prepare for the things that drain us at work. And then how to design better practices to energize yourself through the day– from taking more intentional breaks to better daily habits. Not just for energy throughout our day but sustainable for our career, ultimately avoiding burnout.

Whether you identify as a creative person or not, much of our work in The Cave is creative. We’re asked to solve a problem and try something that might not work. This workshop is all about what happens when you have time blocked off for deep, creative work (like in The Cave). You’ll learn some of the challenges that get in the way for everyone, tools and techniques for overcoming creative stuck-ness, and a new understanding of creativity to empower you and motivate your next best creative idea.

Because no one ever taught us how to work, we’ve pieced together advice, suggested ways of working, and things that might have helped us in school. But the more we can deeply learn about ourselves, the more we can show up our best. We’re able to reach our potential and achieve more. We’ll look at some of the blockers that get in the way of truly knowing ourselves, and review qualities we know about how we work, but never had a vocabulary or time to explore more deeply.

Regardless of the kind of work we do, nearly everything comes back to relationships. We collaborate and connect with others to make better work than we could’ve made on our own. In this workshop, we’ll explore the framework of a team operating system– getting clear about the way partners and teams collaborate.

As a team, it is so rare that we ever are explicit about the expectations when we work together. In this workshop, we'll create a structure for developing a team operating system. More than that, we'll discuss and uncover the challenges in the way of having this conversation in the first place. We believe when everyone is a part of defining the team agreements, we can work together more effectively and more efficiently.

Hey I’m Jake. I’ll be facilitating!

I spent the first decade of my career in advertising, making ad campaigns, commercials, and products you may remember. During that time, I was also an adjunct professor teaching courses in creative process, ideation, writing, and branding. Many of the curricula I wrote and designed myself.

Since early 2018, I have been a faculty member with The School of Life, leading workshops in topics of emotional intelligence for teams across the world.

I’ve always had a passion for teaching the things that no one ever taught us in school.

When we founded Caveday in late 2016, my role as a Co-Founder has been crafting our POV and creating content around it. That means I’m always reading books, researching, and writing new ideas and designing workshops, trainings, graphics, and visual messaging that contribute to the Caveday brand and methodology. 

Ultimately, my goal is to make complex ideas not only understandable, but captivating and applicable. We pride ourselves on not just lecturing about our methods, but putting our research and methods into practice– integrating our methods into a regular practice to transform your relationship to work.

"This is revolutionary
(and so worth the money)!”

-Lila Rose