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Day 1

Mission: JOY Global Community Watch Party (Ended)

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Day 2

The Inseparability of Joy and Sorrow (Ended)

Day 2 Kickoff + Music
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Mingyur Rinpoche, Peggy Callahan, Doug Abrams, The Goodness Tour and THAT JOY SONG

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

Mingyur Rinpoche
Joyful Wisdom: An Approach to Transforming Difficulty into Opportunity

Rainn Wilson and Cloudd Donavan
Joy, Humor, Spirituality and Purpose

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD and Dacher Keltner, PhD
The Science of Emodiversity: Making Friends with All of Our Emotions as the Foundation of Joy

Kristin Neff, PhD
The Power of Holding Difficulty with Self-Compassion

Ross Gay
Inciting Joy: A Poet’s Perspective

Luc Reynaud
Creating a Joy Song

Day 3

Joy is an Inside (Out) Job (Ended)

Day 3 Kickoff + Music
Thupten Jinpa, PhD, Peggy Callahan, Doug Abrams, The Goodness Tour and Rickie Byars and the B-hood

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

Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW
Experiencing Unconditional Joy: A Meditative Approach

Valerie June
Black Joy

Kelly McGonigal, PhD
The Joy of Movement

Elissa Epel, PhD, Darwin Guevarra, PhD, Demond Hill and Peggy Callahan
The Science of Joy and Happiness

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

Day 4

Interconnection & Ubuntu (Ended)

Day 4 Kickoff + Music
Peggy Callahan, Doug Abrams, The Goodness Tour, Soweto Gospel Choir, Niclas Kjellström Matseke and Mamphela Ramphele, MD

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Richard J. Davidson, PhD and Tania Singer, PhD
Altruism as a Source of Inner Strength

Mamphela Ramphele, MD and Reverend Mpho Tutu van Furth
Ubuntu: A Essential Key to Healing Our Planet In Crises

David Whyte
An Offering of Poetry

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD and Bill Vendley, PhD
Resilience and Joy in Our Individual and Shared Stories

adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism

Jamil Zaki, PhD and Jim Coan, PhD
The Science of Empathy, Interconnection, and Ubuntu

Vanessa Nakate
The Climate Crisis and Our Interconnected World

Michelle C. Johnson
Joy, Collective Grief, and Healing Toxic Cultures of Supremacy and Dominance

Rachel Bagby
Ten Rhythms of Joy

Luc Reynaud
Sharing Our Communally-Created Song from Day 2 Live Workshop “Talking ‘Bout Joy”

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Richard J. Davidson, PhD and Tania Singer, PhD
Altruism as a Source of Inner Strength

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

Jamil Zaki, PhD and Jim Coan, PhD
The Science of Empathy, Interconnection, and Ubuntu

Rainn Wilson and Cloudd Donavan
Joy, Humor, Spirituality and Purpose

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

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Day 1

Mission: JOY Global Community Watch Party (Ended)

Day 2

The Inseparability of Joy and Sorrow (Ended)

Day 3

Joy is an Inside (Out) Job (Ended)

Day 4

Interconnection & Ubuntu (Ended)

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