Practicing Joy in Times of Crisis: Exploring Your Cups of Wellness (virtual)

Community Gatherings that Restore & Renew

If you work in nonprofits or community spaces and have been holding the heartbreak of wildfires, political violence, and ongoing collective crises, this space is for you. Practicing Joy in Times of Crisis is a series of 10 community gatherings, five virtual and five in-person, designed to help you reconnect with joy and hope as intentional practices.

Exploring Your Cups of Wellness: Putting Capacity Into Perspective (virtual)

December 10, 12:00-1:00

With Ebony Williams LMFT

We often track everything we have to do. The meetings, the calls, the people supported, the crises navigated, the celebrations held for others. It can be easy to account for how we showed up for others, and much harder to account for what it cost us.

This gathering offers something different: a moment to pause and take stock. Not of what you produced, but of what you carried, and what you had to carry it with.

Through drawing, reflective writing, and community dialogue, we’ll explore your capacity and wellness throughout the year honestly and with curiosity. This is not an assessment. It is an invitation to see yourself more clearly, and explore a new way to take stock of your capacity so you can tend to yourself more wisely.

Materials you’ll need:

Option of Printed Worksheet or Plain Paper

Markers, color pencils, pen/pencil

This series is presented in partnership with A Thousand Joys.

These gatherings are not about bypassing pain. Joy includes our grief. It includes our exhaustion. It includes our rage. Together, through movement, music, restorative practices, reflection, and community dialogue, we will reset our nervous systems and replenish our spirits. When we care for ourselves, we strengthen our capacity to show up for the people and communities who rely on us. Sustainable service requires sustainable self-care.

These events are free due to generous community Foundation support.