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Cultivating JOYBeing Course!
The JOYBeing online course is designed to help participants connect to their inner strength and utilize their internal resources to navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience. Through the course, participants learn how to make intentional choices that foster a mindful presence, leading to a more fulfilling life that positively influences others. The course invites participants to explore joy and liveliness more deeply, enabling them to live fully in each moment while also developing a greater understanding of their emotions. By reconnecting with their inner child, they rediscover a sense of play, curiosity, and wonder, which often gets lost in adulthood. In addition, participants identify and overcome habitual patterns and limiting beliefs that may be preventing them from fully experiencing joy or reaching their potential. This journey is supported by guided meditations, experiential processes, practical awareness tools and a collaborative environment where participants can connect, share, and grow together. The course is built on the concepts outlined in JOYBeing, allowing participants to apply these teachings practically and meaningfully in their own lives.
Why Join the JOYBeing Course?
How would your life be different if you chose to experience joy at home, at work, in your relationships, and everyday life?
In a world filled with distractions and challenges, maintaining a state of joy and connection can be daunting. The JOYBeing Course offers structured, in-depth guidance to help you:
Practical Application:
Learn how to apply the tools and practices in real-life scenarios to cultivate a vibrant and joyful existence.
Deepen Your Understanding:
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the concepts introduced in the book.
Community Support:
Connect with like-minded individuals who are on the same journey towards a joyful and meaningful life.
Personal Growth:
Experience profound personal transformation as you align with your true essence and the rhythm of life.
NEW Course Dates
October 5, 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 2026
11 am–1 pm Central Time
12 pm–2 pm Eastern Time
6 pm–8 pm CET
8 pm–10 pm Istanbul Time
Who is the program for?
Every day, how we choose to be present influences the impact we create in the world. This course is designed for those who aspire to elevate their wellbeing and reconnect with joy to make meaningful differences in their lives and the lives of others.
As a leader, professional, coach, parent or influencer you will explore your patterns of joy and discover your path towards developing a new mindset through experiential practices. We tend to think that joy is dependent on external circumstances, such as when we achieve a goal or when we have a better job or relationship, or even after a big purchase such as a home. We all have habitual patterns that create stress and deplete our energy. While these habits may have once served us, today we can build new neural pathways that support us in creating a fulfilling life since joy is an internal experience and is not dependent on external circumstances.
Are you aware of your habitual patterns that limit joy? What practices might serve you to create more joy in your life? If you want to explore these questions and discover your JOYBeing then this workshop is for you.
Format of Cultivating JOYBeing Course
Two-hour, Live Interactive Virtual Sessions on Zoom over 6 Consecutive weeks include:
- Centering experiences
- Experiential processes to embody joy and aliveness
- Interactive and reflective exercises
- Practices to reinforce connecting to joy
- Teachings that include diverse perspectives
- A workbook to support the learning
- A rich environment for sharing
- Daily practices and tools to explore JOYBeing
Content of the Cultivating JOYBeing Course
SESSION 1: EXPLORING JOY AND ALIVENESS
In this session, you will explore the meaning of joy and how it is different from happiness. You will go deeper in exploring where joy and aliveness live in you and how to easily access it. You will learn the Path to JOYBeing and practices to support you in noticing and staying connected to joy.
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS
Our thoughts create emotions. In this session, you will create awareness that will allow you to relate to your emotions in a positive and healthy way. You will gain more understanding of the role of your emotions and of how to manage them with awareness and choice using the 4A recipe.
SESSION 3: IDENTIFYING OUR HABITUAL PATTERNS & TRAPS THAT LIMIT JOYBEING
In this session, you will explore your inner critic and how unconsciously you strengthen this voice and give it more power, which does not always serve you. You will identify your habitual patterns that limit you and learn the E-MRI awareness tool that will support you in connecting to joy and aliveness.
SESSION 4: RECONNECTING WITH THE CHILD WITHIN AND NURTURING JOYBeing
In this session you will focus on reconnecting with your child within to experience joy and creative flow. You will contact, listen to and appreciate this part of you from a centered presence with curiosity and non-judgment. As leaders, you will explore the power of reconnecting with the playful and creative energy that inspires others. You will also learn how to connect and experience the power of your Wise Self.
SESSION 5: CONNECTING WITH THE JOY OF THE FUTURE SELF
In this final session, you will focus on your commitments and create an action plan for enhancing joy and aliveness. You will strengthen your support mechanisms, which include daily practices to sustain JOYBeing.
What Participants Say about the Cultivating JOYBeing Course
Ann and Gila are the consummate professional coaches/teachers. They embody joy and share their lived experiences with grace and openness. Their guidance is grounded in multiple disciplines, enabling me (the learner) to find applications for my personal self and my use of self in work with others. I have already recommended the course to others.
-Nora O’Brien-Suric, President, Health Foundation for Western & Central New York
What a privilege it was to explore joy alongside such a lovely community. What I was most impressed with was the skill and talent with which Ann and Gila presented short and “seemingly” simple exercises. Under their guidance, I was able to quickly go deep to uncover limiting beliefs and old patterns, allowing more space for joy to come through. I appreciate all the time and expertise that went into putting together such a comprehensive curriculum
-Renee Steinbrecher
The Cultivating JoyBeing course is a gift that keeps on giving! It is a concise, experiential and deeply meaningful, learning experience where participants have the opportunity to go deep, and to connect with inner strengths and new friends from across the world. Having recently completed the five sessions, I feel revitalized, and armed with the tools that will enable me to stay on the path toward inner peace in a world that is far from certain. With heartfelt gratitude, I am confidently moving forward.
-Kathleen FitzSimons
I would absolutely recommend this program. It was wonderful!
In our busy world, it can be hard to make space for joy. Through this class, I find myself opening to joy much more frequently, and I have new tools that I can use to keep joy manifesting in my life. I’m deeply grateful to Ann and Gila for what they have created and to the class for joining in a community of joy.
-Laurie Zuckerman, President, Zuckerman Consulting
I just completed the JoyBeing course and let me voice my thoughts in one word-FANTASTIC!! This "experience" was like no other. I enjoyed sharing my feelings openly with talented people across the world. I learned so much about myself. Ann and Gila are outstanding. Don't ponder as to whether you should do this-it's essential!!
-Mario Weiss, Leader and Executive Coach
The JoyBeing workshop offered a beautiful pause from the busyness of everyday life. It created a warm and supportive space to slow down, notice what is present, and reconnect with myself and others. I left feeling more grounded and appreciative of the simple moments of joy in life.
-Sima Benaroya
We all tend to lose joy as life happens to us. It is crucial for everyone to stop at one point and think about joy and how to remember to feel it in our everyday life. This course definitely helps you realize all the limits you’ve exercised on yourself that are really not necessary and therefore we lost the simple feeling of pure joy. I believe Gila and Ann are great in helping us as we struggle with our self-inflicted limits.
-Ela Gokkin
Cultivating JOYBeing is an excellent course helping build key skills and practices to create JOY in ourself and inspire others. I enjoyed the opportunity to work with internationally-based people.
-Shamim Nasser, Executive Coach, Discovering Potentials (London)
This programme helped me to understand my personal needs and old beliefs that I have kept for so long. It provided me with tools that I can daily use to actively search and practice joy without waiting for it to come. I take with me several concepts that I will try to practice in daily life; the mood checks, the emotional bank account analogy, the realization of daily traps that put us in the same situation over and over again, and I will always remember my inner child for whom I will pursue joy. Thank you for guiding us so affectionately.
-Galya Kohen Afya
The Cultivating JOYBeing course reminded me how important it is to allow myself to be truly joyful and to plant small seeds of joyful moments throughout my day and life. I learned beautiful tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way and gained greater awareness of unhealthy mind traps. This training gave me the precious gift of reconnecting with myself... Each session opened new layers of understanding and self-compassion. I feel more grounded, open-hearted, and aligned with who I truly am. I would wholeheartedly recommend this training to anyone seeking to reconnect with themselves and their unique path — to let their own light shine and grow in a warm and joyful way.
-Eva Palesova
This was a beautiful and long overdue experience for which I feel deep, deep gratitude.
-Julia, HR Leader, Fortune 100 company
I enjoyed the JOYBeing program. It was wonderful.
-Michelle McCarthy, MA ACC ACPC coach, Canada
The JOYBEING CLASS helped me to pause and realize that I am able to crate Joy anytime... Before my spirits get too enmeshed in a dark place I remember the class and the techniques that I learned and I am able to shift into a more parasympathetic stage. Getting centered and grounded and visualizing laughter an extraordinary joyful memories is enough to shake the blues away... Thank you, Ann and Gila and the book JOYBeing is a worthwhile investment to visit again and again... With much gratitude to Ann and Gila. This is especially good for persons in executive leadership roles. I recommended several colleagues responsible for thousands of staff in their organizations. I also recommended it to a high level influencer and key contributor and she got a lot out of it.
-Geri Grossman
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