🌟 Week 2: Joy as Healing 🌟
Part of the Journey to Joy series, this week focuses on how joy can heal and transform lives, even in difficult circumstances—through stories, music, and movement that foster personal and collective well-being.
This week, we’re diving into the powerful ways joy can heal and transform our lives. Let’s explore how joy emerges even in the most challenging circumstances and how we can use it to foster personal and collective well-being.
✨ Required Prep ✨
📖 Watch and read these incredible stories and ideas:
1️⃣ Why Trans and Nonbinary Joy is Not Radical (YouTube)
2️⃣ Picture This! Bringing Joy into Focus and Developing Healthy Habits of Mind
3️⃣ A Holocaust Survivor's Blueprint for Happiness (TED Talk)
📘 Bonus Read:
Black Students and Positive Racialized Emotions: Feeling Black Joy at a Historically White Institution
🎶 Interactive Activity: Experience Joy Through Music or Dance 🎶
Find a way to bring music or movement into your day this week!
🎧 Listen to your favorite songs and let them uplift you.
💃 Take a dance class or have a solo dance party at home.
🎼 Try writing your own music or lyrics to express your emotions.
🎤 Attend a live concert or stream one online.
Reflection: After your musical or dance experience, take 5-10 minutes to write or voice record how you felt. Did you feel more connected to joy? What moments stood out to you?
Let’s use joy to heal and create space for thriving. Share your experiences below or tag us to join the conversation. 🌈💃✨
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