The Joyality Program is an 8-week experiential ecopsychology and activism course that supports you to feel empowered, resilient and connected, and to find grounded hope for the future. It guides you to discover and develop your abilities as a powerfully positive changemaker, and connects you with a community of inspiring people doing this work around the world. The Joyality Program is grounded in the principles and practices of ecopsychology, deep ecology, The Work That Reconnects, non-violent communication theories of social change and social action best practices. 

THROUGH THE JOYALITY PROGRAM, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

1. connect with your deeper feelings about what is happening in our world and transform eco-anxiety into fuel for action

2. develop a deeper relationship with nature that can ground and sustain you no matter where you are or what you’re doing

3. connect authentically with other people, both “allies” and “opponents”

4. develop clarity about your unique gifts, skills and passions for creating positive change in your own life, in your community, and on the larger social, economic, and cultural scale

5. care compassionately for yourself and others in order to maintain and strengthen your commitment to action and your joy at being alive at this time in human and planetary history

THE JOYALITY PROGRAM INCLUDES:

• 36 experiential practices, including 16 audio tracks you can download to your phone or other mobile device and listen to anywhere

• written transcripts of all the processes

• access to our private Joyality Facebook community where you can share and discuss your experiences with other Joyality participants and facilitators, ask questions and receive further support from our global community of changemakers

• a before-and-after Joyality Scorecard so you can see your progress through this journey

how you can participate:

1. Online access to The Joyality Program. Registration includes access to the Joyality website and all 36 experiential practices, 16 audio tracks and transcripts, access to the Joyality Facebook group and the Joyality Scorecard. There are 8 modules of 2 hours each. You will have access to the program, including updates, for three months and can revisit the 8 modules of the course at your own pace after participating in the live sessions. 

2. Join a Joyality Circle. The Joyality Program is a collective journey, as well as an individual one. You will go through this course with a small group of people who will meet weekly for live sessions to engage as a group with the program content from that week. These live sessions include discussion, experiential processes and “sharing circles” or “wisdom circles”, facilitated by an accredited Joyality Facilitator. These meetings will be held either online or in person, depending on the location of participants and facilitators, and are 2 hours.

Joyality is a non-profit project and our pricing aims to maximise accessibility whilst covering costs and paying our international team of skilled facilitators for their time, energy and expertise. We also gratefully accept donations to further this important work and support those who wish to participate in this program and need financial support to do so.

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our promise to you:

By completing The Joyality Program, and applying its tools and practises regularly, you will feel more empowered, connected and able to take conscious action. 

Joyality 201: Finding Your Inner Nature

You will explore how to connect with the nature that is within you instead of “out there” and will begin to deconstruct the culturally created atomized view of the self as disconnected from everything and everyone around it. You will also learn how to engage effectively with “negative” information about what’s happening in the world and how to communicate effectively and compassionately about it with others.

Joyality 301: Going Deeper

You will have the opportunity to acknowledge, fully experience, honour and release any painful and uncomfortable feelings you have about what is happening to our Earth and all the beings who call it home. You will have the opportunity to sit with and be held in this experience and to witness and support others as well. You will learn some tools and practices to transform the energy held within these emotions into motivation and fuel to take empowered action for positive change. 

Joyality 401: Embracing Your Inner Changemaker

You will learn to transform the way you look at what’s happening to our world, your role in it, and your power to create change. After honouring the so called “negative” emotions you experienced in 301, you will gain practical tools and concepts to help you channel the transformative potential held in those feelings into positive action both in your own life and with your community.

Joyality 501: Creating A More beautiful World

You will transform the way you view yourself as a human being and as a changemaker by releasing any judgments or limiting beliefs you may be holding about yourself. You will learn ways to let go of old ways of seeing yourself and others, and find ways of connecting effectively and compassionately with people who have different values and world-views than you. By doing this, you will learn how to channel the positive visions and empowerment you have built throughout this program into compassionate and effective action, not just on an individual level, but also on a collaborative, community level. 

Joyality 601: In the Corridors of Power

You will continue deepening your connection with nature, and with yourself, no matter where you are or what you are doing. By exploring and embracing the mythical realm, you will practise your new abilities to “sustain the gaze”, hold all the “good” and “bad” things happening in the world within you at the same time, and still be able to maintain your passion and vision for the future. You will learn skills to channel the positive visions and empowerment you have built throughout this program into action, not just on an individual and community level, but on the larger structural scale of our society, economy, and culture. Together we will take some steps into the corridors of power!

Joyality Completion: Celebrating Joyality!

You will celebrate the journey we are on together, as well as the steps you’ve taken so far. You will be given the chance to reflect, integrate and harvest the gifts you've received along the way. You will consider who you were at the beginning of Joyality, and who you are now. You get to appreciate who is around you, who you are travelling with, and to ponder where you're heading and what your next steps might be. How will you maintain your own sense of joyality as you move out into the world to do your work?

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy”

– Dale Carnegie

We must engage in effective, compassionate and collaborative Action to change the status quo and create a sustainable future. This action needs to take place in our individual lives, within our communities, and in the larger social, economic, and cultural systems of which we are a part.

Taking positive action, even when it is “unsuccessful”, fires us up, connects us to other people, and helps us align the realities of our lives with our deeper values. Taking action, in and of itself, gives our life meaning and purpose; it is an outward commitment, a  show of love and care for the planet and all those who live on it.