Brave Joy — Four Sources, Seven Resources

The Problem

"Many of us hold joy at arm's length. We worry it is selfish, naive or unfair while others suffer, and we dampen good moments before they can land. Yet joy is what helps people keep going, feel close to others and find meaning when life is hard."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Check where your joy comes from across four sources
Savour small pleasures and catch the uplifts in an ordinary day
Find a way back to hope in heavy seasons
Meet other people's good news with joy, and remember with joy

The science behind it

What you'll learn

Why joy can feel risky, and why it is worth the risk
How savouring and attention open the door to joy
How your body, music and movement feed joy and hope
How joy spreads between people, strangers included

What's included

Everything you get

47 tools across 8 modules, 22 of them built for this course, with classics such as Active Constructive Responding, Gratitude Letter and Visit and Loving-Kindness
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool and a course audio guide
Private fillable workbooks for 46 tools, kept on your own device; the joy check stays online

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For anyone who wants more joy in ordinary life, and anyone in a season when joy feels far away: students, working adults, parents, carers and people in later life. It pairs well with the WalkWell4Life, RunWell4Life and GolfWell4Life courses and with BelongWell4Life.

Joy is not the reward for a life without problems; it is the lift that tells you something good is possible, that you matter and that you are not alone. A companion to Kelly McGonigal's Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking, with her The Joy of Movement, this course turns her Joy Experiments into practices of your own, organised around four sources of joy and seven resources you already have: body, brain, attention, instincts, emotions, choices and relationships.

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Trust, savour, find, share and remember joy, even when life is hard

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