Joyality 101: Taking the First Step
You will begin exploring your relationship with nature and learn how to get grounded and find a sense of stillness within yourself through this relationship. You will also learn how to stay inspired and navigate feelings of discouragement from “negative” information. You will begin to explore your own passions and learn how to think of problems as opportunities, and use that framework to develop a personal plan for 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?