JOY IS THE REVOLUTION TOUR: A Global Nervous System Intervention
This tour is a national call to reclaim joy and play as powerful forces for collective healing.
In a culture shaped by burnout and urgency, this 35-city International experience creates vibrant spaces for laughter, movement, music, and embodied connection because liberation should be felt, not just discussed.
Through immersive gatherings, participants engage in nervous system care while rediscovering creativity, delight, and the courage to imagine differently. This is not just programming, it’s sacred play. A reminder that sustainable change grows from communities that know how to rest, compassionately communicate, and celebrate together.
Your support fuels the travel and production costs for dynamic experiences across the country rooted in community care and celebration, creates accessible events so that everyone may participate, and provides scholarships for those experiencing resource scarcity (no one is ever turned away for inability to pay because joy and play is not just for the financially privileged!).
Joy is strategy. Play is resistance. And healing, done together, changes everything.
Choose Your Level of Impact
All donations tax-deductible via Social Good Fund (501c3)
SEED JOY (PAY-WHAT-FEELS-GOOD) TIER $2-99+
- Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF: an anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work"
GIVE JOY TIER $100-$249
- Live DCC Practice Session: Radical Permission to Play - Why are you resisting joy? (options: 2nd Saturdays @ 11am PT & 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm PT)
- DCC Basics Workbook
- 14-Day Liberation Action Plan workbook PDF: your personal roadmap for embodied anti-racism work
- Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF: an anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work"
EMBODY JOY TIER $500-$700
- 1-year Heal Your Way Forward Collective Membership: full access to member programming & events, digital offerings, and community resources
- Live DCC Practice Session: Radical Permission to Play - Why are you resisting joy? (options: 2nd Saturdays @ 11am PT & 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm PT)
- DCC Basics Workbook
- 14-Day Liberation Action Plan workbook PDF: your personal roadmap for embodied anti-racism work
- Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF: an anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work"
Want to make a bigger impact?
To learn more and see the map, visit our website: joyistherevolution.org
Click the Fundraisers Tab to grab your tickets for Leg 1 events!
Perks
What’s included in this tier:
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and
white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
"In a society that promotes perfectionism, anti-racism work is made tougher, paralyzing those of us who want to do better with worry that we might make a mistake. This is the byproduct of patriarchal, white supremist cultures that value the work of the individual above all else; in contrast, Check Your Privilege values the collective, knowing that this vulnerable work requires us to lean into interdependence and imperfection. Check Your Privilege requires all of us to pause, making time for self-reflection and connection through relationships in order to move forward. In this book, five social activists offer a window into their journeys of Living Into the Work. Learning from their relationships with anti-Blackness, white supremacy, privilege, and discrimination, we feel empowered to brave the next step on our our Check Your Privilege journeys."
What’s included in this tier:
💬❤️☮️ Live Direct Compassionate Communication Practice Group: Radical Permission to Play
We’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” or “it’s irresponsible to rest,” ) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take that honors your needs with integrity.
This is not about toxic positivity. It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically. Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Date Options:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
📔 Direct Compassionate Communication Basics Workbook
In systems shaped by domination and disconnection, learning to speak and listen with care is radical work.
Many of us were never taught how to stay present in tension and conflict, and we often confuse discomfort for danger. Conversations turn into defensiveness, silence, or shame (even when we care about one another).
Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) invites us to slow down, get into our body, notice what we’re experiencing and challenge our beliefs, name what we’re feeling, connect that to what we’re needing, and to make clear requests.
This workbook is a place for you to practice and build capacity for presence and honest expression.
📋️14-Day Liberation Action Plan
Healing our way forward is not a passive process—it’s an act of resistance.
This workbook offers you a safe space to process grief, grow through radical reflection, and take meaningful action toward collective liberation. For 14 days, you’ll receive daily guidance, actionable steps, and powerful prompts rooted in myisha t hill’s transformative work.
Healing isn’t linear, but it’s possible.
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
What’s included in this tier:
💞1-Year Heal Your Way Forward Collective Membership
Full access to member programming & events, digital offerings, and community resources.
The Heal Your Way Forward Collective is a hybrid community that guides one another on a journey of individual and collective healing, so you can niche down your experience of liberation on the journey ahead.
This Collective is action-oriented! Unlike most communities, this is not just a subscription model where you purchase a service or a commodity to consume. Our Guides and Community Holders provide events, resources, daily prompts, group practice & sharing, and accountability. Through these Collective practices, you actually implement what you're learning!
💬❤️☮️ Live Direct Compassionate Communication Practice Group: Radical Permission to Play
We’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” or “it’s irresponsible to rest,” ) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take that honors your needs with integrity.
This is not about toxic positivity. It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically. Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Date Options:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
📔 Direct Compassionate Communication Basics Workbook
In systems shaped by domination and disconnection, learning to speak and listen with care is radical work.
Many of us were never taught how to stay present in tension and conflict, and we often confuse discomfort for danger. Conversations turn into defensiveness, silence, or shame (even when we care about one another).
Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) invites us to slow down, get into our body, notice what we’re experiencing and challenge our beliefs, name what we’re feeling, connect that to what we’re needing, and to make clear requests.
This workbook is a place for you to practice and build capacity for presence and honest expression.
📋️14-Day Liberation Action Plan
Healing our way forward is not a passive process—it’s an act of resistance.
This workbook offers you a safe space to process grief, grow through radical reflection, and take meaningful action toward collective liberation. For 14 days, you’ll receive daily guidance, actionable steps, and powerful prompts rooted in myisha t hill’s transformative work.
Healing isn’t linear, but it’s possible.
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
A Direct Compassionate Communication Series
Have you been taught that joy is avoidance and distraction?
That finding pleasure signals indifference to suffering or complicity in the system?
Oof. No wonder you’re burnt all the way out.
What if play is not avoidance, but a sustainable resistance strategy?
What if self-care is soul care, and nourishing your soul requires making space for grief and joy to coexist?
What to Expect:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
In this Direct Compassionate Communication practice, we’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” “it’s irresponsible to rest,” “joy is a luxury I can't afford”) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take (or one honest request you can communicate directly!) that honors your needs with integrity.
Participants will leave with practical skills that promote relational healing, inner clarity, and courageous possibility. When we speak our needs without blame and listen without defense, joy becomes less threatening and more accessible.
This is not about toxic positivity.
It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically.
Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Why It is Important to Attend:
Your participation contributes to our fundraiser: Joy is the Revolution - A National Nervous System Intervention.
This year-long tour is a national call to reclaim joy and play as powerful forces for collective healing.
In a culture shaped by burnout and urgency, this 31-city experience spanning the United States and Cozumel, Mexico creates vibrant spaces for laughter, movement, music, and embodied connection because liberation should be felt, not just discussed.
Through immersive gatherings, participants engage in nervous system care while rediscovering creativity, delight, and the courage to imagine differently. This is not just programming, it’s sacred play. A reminder that sustainable change grows from communities that know how to rest, compassionately communicate, and celebrate together.
Your support:
- fuels the travel and production costs for dynamic experiences across the country rooted in community care and celebration
- creates accessible events so that everyone may participate
- and provides scholarships for those experiencing resource scarcity (joy and play is not just for the financially privileged!)
Joy is strategy. Play is resistance. And healing, done together, changes everything.To learn more and see the map, visit our website: joyistherevolution.org
NOTE: Join (and fund!) the Heal Your Way Forward Collective to access a pay-what-feels-good option (this and many more sessions are either free or available at a reduced rate to our members)!
We are committed to keeping our tour events accessible. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay because joy and play is not just for the financially privileged!
📣 To make that possible, we need your help:
To help those experiencing resource scarcity, consider making a contribution to our event scholarships!
Highlights
See all activityFAQs
Where will the tour go?
Across the contiguous United States > Canada > Cozumel, Mexico > Laos > Ghana. Visit the website to see the full list of cities and dates as they are announced.
How much does it cost to attend one of the live events?
Outside of the Cozumel Retreat, events cost $25 to attend (simply select your ticket from our fundraising rewards "Perks" tab). If you are resourced to support a scholarship for those experiencing resource scarcity, consider making a larger donation to the event! We are committed to keeping this accessible. If cost is a barrier, please reach out to us directly at community@healyourwayforward.org and we will do our best to support you.
What is the capacity for each event?
Each live event is intentionally intimate, with a capacity of 25 participants. This is by design. We want every person in the room to feel held, seen, and fully present in the experience.
How long are the events?
expect 3 hours with breaks
How does the Retreat differ from the other events?
The Retreat is an immersive, multi-day experience that goes beyond the live event format. In addition to liberation education and community gathering, Retreat participants engage in guided yoga and meditation, somatic activities, and local tourism — a full embodied experience rooted in rest, reconnection, and collective healing. Details on Retreat locations, dates, and pricing will be shared at joyistherevolution.org.
Looks like you may be coming to my town and I have a venue I would love to suggest - who should I talk to?
Awesome! We'd love to hear more about where you think we could be a good fit. Contact community@healyourwayfoward.org and tell us more!
I am interested in sponsoring, who should I talk to?
I have some materials or live volunteer support that may help your event in a specific city - who should I connect with to discuss?
Wonderful, we love community support and welcome those who are serious about collective healing, community impact, and a world where joy is not a privilege but a practice. Whether you are an individual, a mission-aligned small business or corporate organization - and whether you can offer monetary, in-kind, or volunteer support - we'd love to build with you. Please reach out to community@healyourwayfoward.org to start the conversation. Let us know your city, what you're offering, and the best way to reach you, and our team will follow up.
My organization (corporation, small business, etc.) is interested in sponsoring, who should I connect with to discuss?
Delightful, we welcome mission-aligned sponsors who share our values of liberation, healing, and collective care! Please contact Jes via community@healyourwayfoward.org to explore partnership opportunities. We look forward to building with you.
I would love to help fundraise for this tour, what's the best way for me to do that?
Lovely, a great first step is to become a tour ambassador and start your own sub-campaign by clicking here (set your own personal goal and share with your networks)! Additionally, there may be volunteer opportunities that would support our marketing team. Send an email to hello@healyourwayforward.org telling us: your name, your contact info, your city, and any fundraising skills you may have.
What’s included in this tier:
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and
white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
"In a society that promotes perfectionism, anti-racism work is made tougher, paralyzing those of us who want to do better with worry that we might make a mistake. This is the byproduct of patriarchal, white supremist cultures that value the work of the individual above all else; in contrast, Check Your Privilege values the collective, knowing that this vulnerable work requires us to lean into interdependence and imperfection. Check Your Privilege requires all of us to pause, making time for self-reflection and connection through relationships in order to move forward. In this book, five social activists offer a window into their journeys of Living Into the Work. Learning from their relationships with anti-Blackness, white supremacy, privilege, and discrimination, we feel empowered to brave the next step on our our Check Your Privilege journeys."
What’s included in this tier:
💬❤️☮️ Live Direct Compassionate Communication Practice Group: Radical Permission to Play
We’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” or “it’s irresponsible to rest,” ) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take that honors your needs with integrity.
This is not about toxic positivity. It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically. Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Date Options:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
📔 Direct Compassionate Communication Basics Workbook
In systems shaped by domination and disconnection, learning to speak and listen with care is radical work.
Many of us were never taught how to stay present in tension and conflict, and we often confuse discomfort for danger. Conversations turn into defensiveness, silence, or shame (even when we care about one another).
Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) invites us to slow down, get into our body, notice what we’re experiencing and challenge our beliefs, name what we’re feeling, connect that to what we’re needing, and to make clear requests.
This workbook is a place for you to practice and build capacity for presence and honest expression.
📋️14-Day Liberation Action Plan
Healing our way forward is not a passive process—it’s an act of resistance.
This workbook offers you a safe space to process grief, grow through radical reflection, and take meaningful action toward collective liberation. For 14 days, you’ll receive daily guidance, actionable steps, and powerful prompts rooted in myisha t hill’s transformative work.
Healing isn’t linear, but it’s possible.
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
What’s included in this tier:
💞1-Year Heal Your Way Forward Collective Membership
Full access to member programming & events, digital offerings, and community resources.
The Heal Your Way Forward Collective is a hybrid community that guides one another on a journey of individual and collective healing, so you can niche down your experience of liberation on the journey ahead.
This Collective is action-oriented! Unlike most communities, this is not just a subscription model where you purchase a service or a commodity to consume. Our Guides and Community Holders provide events, resources, daily prompts, group practice & sharing, and accountability. Through these Collective practices, you actually implement what you're learning!
💬❤️☮️ Live Direct Compassionate Communication Practice Group: Radical Permission to Play
We’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” or “it’s irresponsible to rest,” ) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take that honors your needs with integrity.
This is not about toxic positivity. It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically. Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Date Options:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
📔 Direct Compassionate Communication Basics Workbook
In systems shaped by domination and disconnection, learning to speak and listen with care is radical work.
Many of us were never taught how to stay present in tension and conflict, and we often confuse discomfort for danger. Conversations turn into defensiveness, silence, or shame (even when we care about one another).
Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) invites us to slow down, get into our body, notice what we’re experiencing and challenge our beliefs, name what we’re feeling, connect that to what we’re needing, and to make clear requests.
This workbook is a place for you to practice and build capacity for presence and honest expression.
📋️14-Day Liberation Action Plan
Healing our way forward is not a passive process—it’s an act of resistance.
This workbook offers you a safe space to process grief, grow through radical reflection, and take meaningful action toward collective liberation. For 14 days, you’ll receive daily guidance, actionable steps, and powerful prompts rooted in myisha t hill’s transformative work.
Healing isn’t linear, but it’s possible.
📖 Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work e-book PDF
An anthology of five women--including Black, Latina, and white--to support your journey of "living into the work."
A Direct Compassionate Communication Series
Have you been taught that joy is avoidance and distraction?
That finding pleasure signals indifference to suffering or complicity in the system?
Oof. No wonder you’re burnt all the way out.
What if play is not avoidance, but a sustainable resistance strategy?
What if self-care is soul care, and nourishing your soul requires making space for grief and joy to coexist?
What to Expect:
- 2nd Saturdays @ 11am - 1pm PT / 2 - 4pm ET
- 3rd Tuesdays @ 4pm - 6pm PT / 7 - 9pm ET
In this Direct Compassionate Communication practice, we’ll explore the ways we block play, exploration, and possibility--not with shame, but with curiosity. Together, we’ll examine the judgments we carry (like “I don’t deserve this,” “it’s irresponsible to rest,” “joy is a luxury I can't afford”) and gently translate them into the unmet needs beneath them.
Through guided self-connection practices and compassionate dialogue roleplay, you’ll identify the feelings activated in your resistance to joy and connect them to the core needs at stake. We’ll practice moving from scarcity to spaciousness by identifying one action you can take (or one honest request you can communicate directly!) that honors your needs with integrity.
Participants will leave with practical skills that promote relational healing, inner clarity, and courageous possibility. When we speak our needs without blame and listen without defense, joy becomes less threatening and more accessible.
This is not about toxic positivity.
It’s about understanding what stands in the way of joy so that gratitude and delight can emerge authentically.
Because joy is not the opposite of responsibility, accountability or awareness - it can be the fruit of it!
Why It is Important to Attend:
Your participation contributes to our fundraiser: Joy is the Revolution - A National Nervous System Intervention.
This year-long tour is a national call to reclaim joy and play as powerful forces for collective healing.
In a culture shaped by burnout and urgency, this 31-city experience spanning the United States and Cozumel, Mexico creates vibrant spaces for laughter, movement, music, and embodied connection because liberation should be felt, not just discussed.
Through immersive gatherings, participants engage in nervous system care while rediscovering creativity, delight, and the courage to imagine differently. This is not just programming, it’s sacred play. A reminder that sustainable change grows from communities that know how to rest, compassionately communicate, and celebrate together.
Your support:
- fuels the travel and production costs for dynamic experiences across the country rooted in community care and celebration
- creates accessible events so that everyone may participate
- and provides scholarships for those experiencing resource scarcity (joy and play is not just for the financially privileged!)
Joy is strategy. Play is resistance. And healing, done together, changes everything.To learn more and see the map, visit our website: joyistherevolution.org
NOTE: Join (and fund!) the Heal Your Way Forward Collective to access a pay-what-feels-good option (this and many more sessions are either free or available at a reduced rate to our members)!
We are committed to keeping our tour events accessible. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay because joy and play is not just for the financially privileged!
📣 To make that possible, we need your help:
To help those experiencing resource scarcity, consider making a contribution to our event scholarships!
