Practicing Joy in Times of Crisis: Cultivating Mental Peace and Thriving! at DENA Heals
November 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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.
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.
Cultivating Mental Peace and Thriving (in person) at DENA Heals
We live and work in a world that asks a lot of us and and often, in the middle of it all, we can lose our own sense of peace and possibility. This in-person gathering led by Nikita Gupta is an invitation to reclaim these things for yourself
Through facilitated reflection, community dialogue, and embodied practice, we’ll explore what it actually means to thrive, not despite the difficulty, but within it. We’ll look at the mindsets and beliefs that can limit us, and open space for perspectives that restore a personal sense of agency, resilience, and hope. A gentle, inclusive yoga-based somatic practice will help us settle the nervous system, return to the body, and cultivate a felt sense of grounding and presence.
We’ll also sit together with the harder questions- how do we hold the realities of our current social, political, and community landscapes without being consumed by them? How do we stay in the work without losing ourselves in it?
These events are free due to the generous community Foundation support.