Financial Literacy Workshops in Ottawa for Teens 14+
Five hours at a real table from 13:00, usually at a weekend. Teens budget, borrow, invest and handle surprises with a Trainer and a Banker in the room. From 1 November 2026: CAD 200 a seat, CAD 150 each for a pair, CAD 1,000 a table.
Life Capital runs in-person financial literacy workshops for teens from 14 in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario: a five-hour simulation from 13:00, usually at a weekend, with up to eight players at a table, a Trainer and a Banker. From 1 November 2026 a seat is CAD 200, CAD 150 each for a pair, CAD 1,000 a table.
The date is agreed in the reply to your enquiry. Schools and youth groups book a session of their own, quoted for the group.
What teens practise at the table
- building a budget and keeping it through changing circumstances;
- credit, borrowing and the cost of debt over time;
- saving and simple investment decisions;
- risk and emergency expenses;
- financial goals and opportunity cost;
- negotiation, cooperation and decisions with incomplete information.
Players work through roughly forty years of adult financial life in one sitting: a first job, borrowing, insurance, a missed payment, a change of career. Each decision goes into the player’s own ledger, and the debrief is each player reading that ledger aloud and saying what every choice cost. The session produces no scores and no reports about a student; the ledger belongs to the player. The finance class for teens, topic by topic →
Figures in Canadian dollars. The written offer carries the final number, the lead time and the cancellation terms. The full price list →
A date is held once the reply to your enquiry names it. Ask for a session date →
Life Capital in Ottawa
Life Capital’s Canadian activity includes national youth tournament events in Ottawa. The first Canadian national tournament was held at Carleton University in April 2025, followed by the second national stage in Ottawa on 14 March 2026, a Global Money Week event.
Outside the city, Life Capital runs group sessions in Carleton Place, where the company is based, across Lanark County and in Arnprior. Before you write, the questions and answers page covers the session, the table, the cost and booking. To see what is on the table, read about the board, move by move.
The tournament archive →Ottawa, 14 March 2026 →
For Ontario schools and youth groups
Schools run a school club across the school year: shorter theory meetings, and full 5-hour simulations where the theory is practised. For Grade 10 students, a session gives practice around the concepts behind Ontario’s new Financial Literacy Graduation Requirement, while the TVO modules and the assessment stay with the school and the province.
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Questions people ask before booking
Who is the Ottawa financial literacy workshop for?
Teens from 14 and adults. Parents book a seat or a pair with their teenager, and schools, youth organizations and community groups book a table or a session of their own in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario.
How long is a session, and when does it start?
Five hours from 13:00, usually at a weekend: a 30-minute briefing, a 2-hour first half, a break, a second half of 1 hour 45 minutes and a 30-minute debrief.
How many people sit at a table?
Five to eight players, eight at most, with a Trainer who facilitates the whole session and a Banker who pays out and collects the money.
How much does the workshop cost?
From 1 November 2026 a seat at an open session is CAD 200, CAD 150 each for a pair booked together, and CAD 1,000 for a whole table. A session for a school or youth group is quoted for the group.
How is the date set?
Open dates are agreed one enquiry at a time: the reply names a date against the rooms and Trainers free that month, and the date is held once the reply names it. Write the city, the month, the hours that suit you and how many will take part.
Is there an online option?
Sessions run in person only: the board, the cards and the play money are on a real table, and each player keeps a paper ledger. To see how a turn works before you book, open the browser version of the simulation at lifecapital.evokira.com.
Does the workshop help with Ontario’s Grade 10 financial literacy requirement?
It gives practice at the decisions behind the topics TVO names, such as budgeting, credit and saving. The requirement itself is completed through the TVO modules in Grade 10 Career Studies, and the mark stays with the school.
Which languages are sessions run in?
English and Ukrainian.
Do you run sessions in Carleton Place and Lanark County?
Yes. Life Capital is based at 215 Preston Drive, Carleton Place; a group session can run at your venue in Carleton Place, Lanark County or Arnprior, quoted for the group.
Do you come to Kingston?
Yes, for a group session at your venue in Eastern Ontario; the Trainer’s travel is set out in the written offer.