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All 25+ Event Sessions* in downloadable video and audio format so you can listen on the go

Powerful Insights, Guided Practices & Practical Tools to cultivate greater connection and JOY in your life.

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Typed Transcripts of all sessions to read along, highlight and take notes

Guided Practice Library with short clips of all guided practices from the event, plus bonus meditations!

* Please Note: the Mission: JOY movie is not included in the Recording Package. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here. The keynote with the Dalai Lama will remain available, free of charge, indefinitely on the summit homepage.

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Our mission is to make these uplifting resources available to all. Full and partial scholarship are available. If the options above are not appropriate for your financial circumstances, we warmly invite you to review our scholarship options.

* Please note: the Mission: JOY movie is not included in the Recording Package. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here. The keynote with the Dalai Lama will remain available, free of charge, indefinitely on the summit homepage.

Sliding Scale Options

All sliding-scale options include the Summit Recordings* + Gift a 2nd FREE Recording Package to a Friend

*Contributions in USD. Exchange rates provided for convenience!

Pay it Forward

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( $300.00 USD )

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standard Event Price
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Access for All - Scholarship Information

Our mission is to make these uplifting resources available to all. Full and partial scholarship are available. If the options above are not appropriate for your financial circumstances, we warmly invite you to review our scholarship options.

* Please note: the Mission: JOY movie is not included in the Recording Package. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here. The keynote with the Dalai Lama will remain available, free of charge, indefinitely on the summit homepage.

Recording Package FAQ

Q: What will my purchase support?

A: The Global Joy Summit is a non-profit project. Recording Package sales, along with the generous support of the Fetzer Institute, make it possible for us to offer this summit for free around the globe. Proceeds go directly to covering the costs associated with creating and sharing the summit. Any additional proceeds will help support the ongoing non-profit work of Mission: JOY 501(c)(3), Mind & Life Institute 501(c)(3) and The Awake Network Foundation 501(c)(3).

A portion of the proceeds will also go to support the Tibetan Children’s Village (seen in the Mission: JOY film) and the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.


Q: Why is there a sliding scale?

A: We are committed to ensuring access for all. If you are able, we ask that you pay the Standard Event price (or Pay it Forward!) to support the production and free airing of this global summit! If this is not possible, then you are welcome to our sliding scale. If no sliding scale options are appropriate for your circumstances at this time, we also offer additional partial and full scholarship options: Apply here.


Q: What is the Buy-1, Gift-1 Offer?

A: As an appreciation to all who purchase, we are offering a “Buy-1, Gift-1” bonus, where you will have the option to gift a 2nd FREE Recording Package to a friend, free of charge, to help spark greater JOY in their life as well. You can gift it to a friend right away, or wait and decide who to gift it to later on!


Q: What’s included in the Package? 

A: When you purchase the Summit Recording Package, you’ll have unlimited lifetime access to all of the summit videos in downloadable video and audio format so you can revisit or listen on the go to your favorite Joy sessions. Plus, you’ll receive the Buy-1, Gift-1 offer to share with a loved one. You’ll also receive typed transcripts to read along, highlight or take notes. You can see all the sessions and topics that are included within your package below! 

Please note: the free community screening of the Mission: Joy film is not included in the summit recordings, and the Dalai Lama’s keynote address will remain available indefinitely on the summit homepage, free of charge.

Sessions Included:

Day 2:

The Inseparability of Joy and Sorrow

November 14th

Live Interactive Workshop (60 min)

Live 12:00PM EST

Creating a Joy Song

Explore the magic of creativity as we spontaneously create a JOY Song together on Zoom. Facilitated by musician extraordinaire Luc Reynaud, join us as we bend the boundaries of distance and connect as a live global community. Soul centered, light-hearted and fun — no musical talent required. Just bring your joyful, sorrowful, open human heart.

Luc Reynaud

Day 2 Kick Off (20min)

Released 6:00PM EST

Community Gathering & Music!

Join us for an inspiring, poignant and joy filled program, as we watch highlights from our community video submissions, meet brave Ukrainian refugees alchemizing violence into resilience, beauty, and joy, and watch the premier of the crowd sourced THAT JOY SONG music video, featuring goodness and starring you.  



We come from different 150+ different countries from around the globe, and yet the inseparability of joy and sorrow is the eternal rhythm of the beating heart, of our common humanity.

Event Sessions (40 – 60 min each)

Released 6:00PM EST

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Claiming the Light in the Midst of Darkness: Joy, Community, and Inspiration for Living in These Times

  • Hear powerful inspiration to connect with the “source of love and light” that is always present—giving us strength in adversity and the ability to love one another across differences
  • Explore the importance of “healthy, loving, liberating, and life-giving” communities — and why we need to rebuild them after the pandemic
  • Hear how Bishop Curry has personally walked through experiences of darkness and how his inspiration for living a life of service brings him joy.

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD
Dacher Keltner, PhD

The Science of Emodiversity: Making Friends with All of Our Emotions as the Foundation of Joy

  • Explore the beautiful aspects of sadness, and understand why joy and sadness are one system — if you turn down sadness, you also turn down joy
  • Learn about science-based strategies for working with difficult emotions and “stoking” joy, including: “name it to tame it,” breathing practices, recognizing emotions as impermanent, connecting with others, gratitude, and more.
  • Understand the scientific concept of “proportionality” in the context of emotions and how this can help us distinguish sadness from depression

Mingyur Rinpoche

Joyful Wisdom: An Approach to Transforming Difficulty into Opportunity

  • Hear Rinpoche describe his early life experiences with anxiety and panic attacks, and how he learned to transform these difficulties through meditation
  • Be led in a guided practice to transform “poison into medicine” and transform our most painful emotions by accessing the 3 fundamental qualities of mind: awareness, love and compassion, and wisdom 
  • Explore how we can find meaning in our suffering and use it as a bridge to develop compassion and connection with others

Rainn Wilson
Cloudd Donavan

Joy, Humor, Spirituality and Purpose

In this hilarious and profound conversation, we get inside actor Rainn Wilson’s head as he is interviewed by Cloudd Donovan.

Rainn opens up and shares what he himself struggles with, and how spirituality has helped him discover deeper purpose and a calling to serve others. 

Intimate, generous, practical. Be prepared to laugh and cry!

Kristin Neff, PhD

The Power of Holding Difficulty with Self-Compassion

  • Discover how the loving connected presence of self compassion can be a more reliable source of joy than the external conditions of our lives
  • Learn about the three main components of self-compassion: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness; and hear about the research behind how these help you to be stronger, more resilient, and more effective
  • Experience a guided practice to help you work with difficulty or overwhelm, and get tips for integrating self-compassion into your daily life

Ross Gay

Inciting Joy: A Poet’s Perspective

  • Discover how holding each other in our common experience of sorrow as human beings can be a profound gateway to a full experience of joy
  • Reflect on why joy matters and is essential to prioritize in our modern world — especially  in the face of the suffering, injustice, and hardships that surround us.
  • Explore how to practice interconnectedness, joy, and gratitude, and hear Ross read from his new collection of essays — Inciting Joy.

Day 3:

Joy is an Inside (Out) Job

November 15th

Day 3 Kick Off (20min)

Released 6:00PM EST

Community Gathering and Music!

Join us for an inspiring, poignant and joy-filled program, as we watch highlights from our community video submissions, continue our journey with brave Ukrainians alchemizing violence into resilience, beauty, and joy, and share a soulful and energizing rendition of  “Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Since I Laid My Burdens Down,” performed by Rickie Byars and the Wop Dat Be Doo! group at the B-hood.

We come from different 150+ different countries from around the globe, and yet each in our own unique way we can live Joy from the inside out.

Event Sessions (40 – 60 min each)

Released 6:00PM EST

Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW

Experiencing Unconditional Joy: A Meditative Approach

  • Discover “essence love” — an inexhaustible source of joy that is within every one of us, and can be accessed at any time
  • Learn how to move through blockages to joy by examining negative beliefs about ourselves with insightful kindness. 
  • Be led in a guided practice of welcoming unconditional joy, and explore how tapping into this joy allows us to more compassionately show up for others.

Elissa Epel, PhD
Darwin Guevarra, PhD
Demond Hill
Peggy Callahan

The Science of Joy and Happiness

  • Understand the latest science of happiness and why happy people on average live longer, have stronger immune systems, are more resilient to stress and trauma, are more likely to marry and less likely to divorce, and more.
  • Hear about the Big Joy Science Project and how daily micro acts of Joy can increase your happiness and wellbeing
  • Be led in a gratitude practice that you can try at home

Zainab Salbi

Healing Self, Healing the World: Joy & Freedom from the Inside-out

  • Be inspired by Zainab’s incredible life journey and how her misfortunes have led to her fortunes, including becoming an advocate and support for thousands of women impacted by war around the world.
  • Understand how fighting for a cause doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice our well-being; rather cultivating joy and beauty can be acts of resistance.
  • Explore how women tend to lead differently—through collaboration and love

Valerie June

Black Joy

  • Hear Valerie’s vision of Black Joy and the power of a rooted and imaginative positivity on the long road of racial healing
  • Reflect on what it means to wield a wand, rather than a weapon
  • Understand the role of vulnerability in creativity, and the relationship between vulnerability and joy

Kelly McGonigal, PhD

The Joy of Movement

  • Understand the differences between self-focused joy, collective joy, and empathic joy — and how these differ from “happiness”
  • Explore how joy is an essential resource for sustainable social change
  • Be led in Kelly’s “Joy Moves,”  a series of easy to do researched-based physical movements designed to activate joy in your nervous system, emotions and mind.

Chude Jideonwo

Joy From the Inside-Out: Cultivating Personal Joy as the Basis of Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformation

  • Hear how Chude’s depression became an opportunity for him to connect with deeper joy and learn about the latest research on human flourishing, happiness and belonging.
  • Reflect on the ideal of the beloved community what it would be like if love were the driving force behind government policies relating to things like healthcare
  • Explore the pitfalls of materialism as a source for happiness and understand why people are happier in countries that value social cohesion and belonging

Day 4:

Community, Interconnection & Ubuntu

November 16th

Live Interactive Workshop (60 min)

Live 12:00PM EST

Ten Rhythms of Joy

 
Rachel Bagby

Day 4 Kick Off (20min)

Released 6:00PM EST

Community Gathering and Performances!

Join us for an inspiring, poignant and joy filled program, as we share an energizing and moving performance of “This Little Light of Mine” by the internationally acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir and come to the culmination of our journey with brave Ukrainians alchemizing violence into resilience, beauty, and joy.

Today’s theme is Ubuntu and Interconnection. As we tap into the reservoir of unconditional joy, it cannot help but be expressed in our relationships and connections with each other.

Event Sessions (40 – 60 min each)

Released 6:00PM EST

Keynote Address

Altruism as a Source of Inner Strength

Featuring:

His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
Tania Singer, PhD

Jamil Zaki, PhD
Jim Coan, PhD

The Science of Empathy, Interconnection, and Ubuntu

  • Dig in to the science and practice of empathy, interconnection and vulnerability and why healthy social connection is essential to our well being 
  • Explore the obstacles to pro-sociality at the individual and collective levels, and how we can move beyond these toward a more just and sustainable world
  • Consider that if clinical psychology is going to make new strides in health and well being, it must look more deeply at the group and societal levels, beyond only the individual

adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism

  • Understand the importance of acknowledging our ancestors and lineage as we do our work in the world, and how this can give us hope
  • Discover the power of realizing that you are the protagonist of your own story, and how to treat this as a practice
  • Reflect on the relationship between pleasure and joy, and how these qualities can uplift ourselves and others even in times of difficulty

Michelle C. Johnson

Joy, Collective Grief, and Healing Toxic Cultures of Supremacy and Dominance

  • Explore how we can prioritize wholeness while living in cultures based on capitalism and other systems of supremacy and dominance
  • Discover how rest can be an antidote to the toxic culture of speed, and why it’s important to pause and recognize the collective grief experience that we’re in
  • Experience a guided visualization to access the wisdom of the natural world, which can lead us through grief and towards joy

Mamphela Ramphele, MD
Reverend Mpho Tutu van Furth

Ubuntu: A Essential Key to Healing Our Planet In Crises

  • Explore the African philosophy of Ubuntu, and how it can deepen our relationships with one another and our planet
  • Reflect on how we can use the current planetary crises that we face as a wakeup call to relearn what it really means to be human
  • Discover the relationship between joy and forgiveness, what forgiveness means in the language of ubuntu, and how this differs from forgiveness in western terms
  • Hear ​​how ancient wisdom teaches us that interconnectedness is an existential need, not only a spiritual idea

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Bill Vendley, PhD

Resilience and Joy in Our Individual and Shared Stories

  • Learn how the stories we tell ourselves, personally and collectively, impact our lives, the world we live in, and the joy we experience
  • Understand the importance of self-forgiveness and self-compassion in transcending limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves
  • Discover how coming together to build shared sacred stories can help us see our common humanity beyond “us/them” divisions

Summit Recording Package Includes

All 20+ Event Sessions* in downloadable video and audio format

Powerful Insights, Guided Practices & Practical Tools to cultivate JOY in your life.

Buy-1, Gift-1 Offer Get a 2nd FREE package to gift to a friend!

* Please Note: the Mission: JOY movie is not included in the Recording Package. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here. The keynote with the Dalai Lama will remain available, free of charge, indefinitely on the summit homepage.

Sliding Scale Contribution

*Contributions in USD. Exchange rates provided below for convenience!

Pay it Forward

$300 USD

( $300.00 USD )

I am happy to offer a little more and help support the scholarship fund!

Receive all Event Recordings + Gift a free Recording Package to a friend

Standard Event

$190 USD

( $190.00 USD )

I can support at the
standard Event Price
Level!

Receive all Event Recordings + Gift a free Recording Package to a friend

Sliding Scale

$120 USD

( $120.00 USD )

I can support at the
$120 Sliding Scale
Level!

Receive all Event Recordings + Gift a free Recording Package to a friend

Sliding Scale

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I can support at the
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Level!

Receive all Event Recordings + Gift a free Recording Package to a friend

Access for All - Scholarship Information

Our mission is to make these uplifting resources available to all. We recognize that because of global inequities, the sliding-scale amounts above are not equally accessible to all of our participants. Full scholarships, or the option to contribute a lower amount, are available. If the options above are not appropriate for your financial circumstances, we warmly invite you to review our scholarship options.

* Please note that the Mission:JOY movie and the keynote with the Dalai Lama are not included in the Recording Package. The keynote will remain available indefinitely on the summit homepage, free of charge. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here.

Sliding Scale Options

All sliding-scale options include the Summit Recordings* + Gift a 2nd FREE Recording Package to a Friend

*Contributions in USD. Exchange rates provided for convenience!

Pay it Forward

$300 USD

( $300.00 USD )

I am happy to offer a little more and help support the scholarship fund!

Standard Event

$190 USD

( $190.00 USD )

I can support at the
standard Event Price
Level!

Sliding Scale

$120 USD

( $120.00 USD )

I can support at the
$120 Sliding Scale
Level!

Sliding Scale

$70 USD

( $70.00 USD )

I can support at the
$70 Sliding Scale
Level!

Access for All - Scholarship Information

Our mission is to make these uplifting resources available to all. Full and partial scholarship are available. If the options above are not appropriate for your financial circumstances, we warmly invite you to review our scholarship options.

* Please note: the Mission: JOY movie is not included in the Recording Package. You can learn more about the Mission: JOY movie here. The keynote with the Dalai Lama will remain available, free of charge, indefinitely on the summit homepage.

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