Online and In-person Courses

Our initiatives are designed to meet our whole community with strategies for connection, creating balance, enlivening purpose, generating personal and community resilience, and taking action with courage, wellbeing and joy.

Our courses and workshops provide tools and resources in a format for everyone, regardless of where or how you live. We offer a range of online, self-paced and in-person options.

If you’d like to bring together a group for a facilitated workshop, check out Gather a Group.

We also consult with diverse groups to co-design programs for your specific needs.

Contact our facilitation team if you have any questions about how we can provide the best experience for you or your organisation.

If you would like to apply for a BIPOC or youth scholarship or gift a scholarship to the community please contact us or make a donation.

Planting seeds

Planting Seeds for Regenerative Living is a 5-week self-paced experiential course that guides you through the 3 Seeds of Regenerative Living - Stay Awake, Connect & Act - and integrates tools and practices to help you nurture these seeds in your life so that you can be more present, grounded, and aligned in your life and your action for change.

Online, self-paced, 5 week course (*our course on Teachable is currently full, so please email us for next available space)

Recommended age 16-106 years

bridging our differences

Communicating well with people who hold differing views. Something that’s super important in this pandemic of polarisation! Whether it’s discussions about climate change, vaccination and the virus, sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, war … we need to nurture connections of respect and appreciation to strengthen community and to engage in effective change-making.

Our new self-paced mini-course guides you through 3 inspirational and practical processes that provide skills, passion and insight for communicating and finding shared values with people who hold different views from you.

Online, self-paced, 3 - 6 hours (* our course on Teachable is currently full, so please email us for next available space)

Recommended age 14-104 years

POWER OF NATURE - ECOPSYCHOLOGY WeEKEND RETREATS

Join Aunty Glenda, Eshana, Shamila and Kylie in the Australian springtime of Yaegl Country, Northern NSW, for a full weekend retreat in the magic of a hidden valley of regenerating rainforest. In these times of increasing climate chaos and unpredictable social disruption, how do we prepare for the times ahead? We will gather in community to experience the Power of Nature to inspire, heal, motivate and guide us in these uncertain times of great potential.

Or join our autumn weekend retreat in the beautiful bushland of Wangat Lodge in Gringai Country near Newcastle, 2-4 May 2025.

Joyality for Young People

THE JOYALITY PROGRAM

Our original and signature course including the toolkit of 36 practises, was created with and for young adults aged 16-25 and has yet proved valuable to all ages! Participants have described The Joyality Program as a life changing and transformational journey. This program combines individual exploration and discovery (using online resources and audio files), with small group sessions facilitated either in person or online via Zoom over 8 weeks. We work with existing local groups, and also call together change makers from around the world.

Be nurtured and resourced to be able to Stay awake, Connect and Act in ways that support you to thrive. Be encouraged to develop your personal passion project and take meaningful actions for personal and planetary wellbeing.

In-person and/or Online

2-4 hours per week over 8 weeks

Recommended ages 16-106 years! (6- 12 participants per group)

“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 … and that this journey we have shared will sit deeply in my heart forever. Thank you Joyality!”

- Sophie Wilksch, artist & builder, founder of Shedding Community Workshop

JOYALITY 4 KIDS

This adaptation of The Joyality Program engages upper primary school children in age-appropriate lessons and games exploring their experience of environmental and social issues, including climate change. Facilitators take a positive, solutions-based approach; encouraging nature connection, and emotional expression and support. J4K sessions are also held with parents and teachers, to resource their support for the children in their care.

Children and their carers feel supported and hopeful in the face of challenges we are facing in the world. They come away with tools for resilience and empowered action taking.

In person (preferably in outdoor location), 4-5 hours

Recommended age 9-12years (+parents and teachers)

youth leadership training in climate resilience

Youth resilience training workshops engage high school students, and their communities of teachers and parents, in empowering and inspiring strategies for positive action and mental health.

Our graduating 18 teen youth leaders have gone on to inspiring projects leading climate resilience workshops in community, high school sustainability initiatives, working with Social Futures, developing the Be the Change podcast and so much more.

If you are interested in empowering support for yourself or young people you care about please contact us.

A LIFE ON OUR PLANET: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE WORKSHOP

An empowering, interactive, supportive, and FUN workshop where we dive deeper into challenges and insights from a film, play some meaningful games, learn resilience hacks and explore taking positive action in alignment with what we love. The workshop can be co-facilitated by graduates of Joyality’s Youth Leadership Training in Climate Resilience.

Be resourced in self care and resilience, learn how to take action in alignment with what we love and build connection in your community.

In-person, 2.5 hours workshop + 50 mins film screening

Recommended ages 14 - 104years