The Joyality Project offers courses, workshops, coaching, and resources that support the depth of transformation we need in order to co-create a just and regenerative future for all. Our offerings bring together wisdom and perspectives from ecopsychology, deep ecology, intersectionality, non-violent communication, social change theories, and transformative activism.
Our courses are designed to support you in developing your resilience, presence, connectedness and ability to take positive action for change in a way that is aligned with your gifts and passions and does not burn you out. We believe that thriving people create thriving systems, and that we are all better participants in building a more beautiful future when we are connected to our own experience of joyality.
Our approach to joyality includes building the capacity to honor and move through grief, anger, despair and other challenging and painful emotions as normal and healthy responses to the state of the world, as well as expanding the ability to experience joy, connection and wonder in our lives and our changemaking work. We seek to support you in inhabiting the full spectrum of the human experience in these challenging and potential-filled times. The world needs YOU and the unique gifts you have to contribute.
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the quality or state of experiencing deep and encompassing joy; a feeling of wholeness, interconnection, full presence, and
exuberance for life
Joyality is that feeling you get when every cell of your being is joyful, peaceful, and alive. It is that feeling that you can’t quite put words to, because they could never do it justice. It is deeply related to beauty, love, and the pure exuberance for being alive, but exactly what it is will always be something of a mystery.
Joyality is different for everyone as we are all unique individuals whose souls are sparked by a diversity of people, places, and activities.
Joyality is also different than happiness. The word “happiness” comes from “happenstance”- it is something that happens and then is gone, it is dependent on circumstance. Joy is something altogether different. Once joy enters a person it never leaves, it is always accessible to us in the recesses of our hearts and souls, even if we do not feel joyful at that moment. This is because joy is part of the eternal, it is one of the core energies of existence. Think of Joy as one giant entity – the joy in me is connected to, the same as, the joy in you. I may experience it at different times or due to different things, but it stems from the same pot of joy.
Joyality is about developing your relationship with that pot of joy, learning to access it in the darkest of times, and using it to create positive change in the world.
We believe that this joy is more accessible if we dive deeply into life. This means fully embracing the wonder of existence, and also engaging with the troublespots, addressing them, and striving to make the world a better place.
Ignoring the dangers, the crises, the threats and filling our lives up with ‘stuff’, with entertainment, with busyness, does not bring us joy. These things distract us from the personal and planetary problems we face. While they may bring us fleeting happiness, they do not satisfy our deep and gnawing desire for joy.
Sign up for Planting Seeds today!
This 5-week experiential self-guided course takes you on a journey through the 3 Seeds of Regenerative Living - Stay Awake, Connect & Act - and offers tools, practices and concepts to support you in cultivating your resilience, your connection and your ability to take positive, aligned action in the world. Through this course you will feel more grounded and well-resourced to live a regenerative life and actively contribute to a regenerative world for all.
Regenerative Leadership Incubator
A 9-month deep dive into cultivating leadership for ecological, social, and cultural regeneration - because a thriving world needs thriving leaders. This unique and cross-disciplinary journey will guide you to clairfy your unique gifts and how to use them as a leader, transform paralyzation and overwhelm into fuel for positive collective action, build nourishing community, and integrate a rich collection of tools, resources and strategies to step into your fullest capacity as a leader for a just and regenerative world.
“The exposure that Joyality has given me to my capacity to connect with nature, myself, and others has been unbelievable. I will carry what I have learned— how to hold space for environmental action, and the language to effectually discuss eco-anxiety— for a long time coming. Much gratitude, Joyality.”
-Kayla Carrington, spoken word poet and jazz sax performer
“If you want to effect change in the world, and don't know where to start or feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the challenge and the feelings that evokes, then this program is for you. Joyality is a transformative journey for clarifying your meaningful contribution, learning tools and getting the support to manifest that contribution, and transforming grief and rage into the energy and stamina to take the action necessary to make it happen."
Roger Taylor, leadership and organizational development consultant
"Joyality was wonderful! The opportunities to reflect and heal self so we can do inner work to affect the outer world are beautiful! The tools and exercises used in the program, when done with integrity, can be transformational for the individual. I want to continue developing my toolkit while helping others make change for themselves, their ʻohana (family), lāhui (community) and ʻāina (land).”
Ashley Makahilahila, counsellor, LCSW and Joyality Facilitator in training
“I feel like this Program has reminded me all of the things I had forgotten - to love myself and those around me, to realize my own potential to achieve, to allow myself to feel vulnerable and weak and frustrated at times, but to take those emotions and feed them into pro-active positive change. I feel that I have deeply connected with the other participants of this program and that this journey that we have shared will sit deeply in my heart forever. Thank you Joyality!”
Sophie Wilksch, artist, builder and community organizer
To learn more about our work, courses and offerings please visit our website at www.joyality.org!
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