Joy First Foundation evokes, embraces and energizes humanity through the understanding, offering, and creation of joyful experiences.
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It’s the GIVING SEASON! We are so grateful for your ongoing contributions in treasure, talent, and time! In 2025 we are looking for help with grants, in Arizona, or the Southwest to bring the Joyful Moments to more communities (and beyond the Southwest). Your donations are tax deductible.
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Current and past collaborations, workshops, certifications, cohorts, speaking engagements, and workshop facilitation with Joy First Foundation and Katy BEE L.L.C.
The Tour of Joy is experimenting
with NEW partnerships!
The tour has been going for over 2 years. After crossing the country 2.5 times, traveling to collaborate with individuals, we decided to stop for awhile and invest in different communities. Firs stop was Rockport, TX where we offered Improv Dance, Theatrical Improv, and Joyful Yoga – both private coaching and group classes for folks between the ages of 5-85. After five months, the tour came to Miami, AZ to invest time and projects. This town is special due to it’s history, and demographic of mining families, veterans, and the proximity and relationship with nearby Native American Reservations. Can Joy First collaborate with the Miami Arts organizations here, the Town itself, and the local companies to create a “Joy Activated Town?”
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With Joy First Foundation, you can provide a Joyful Moment for yourself or someone else. Evoke, Embrace, Explore, Energize and bring Joy to all living beings. Your donation is a great way to support veterans, caregivers, hospital workers, patients, emergency workers, school teachers, kids, adults, businesses, co-workers, individuals or groups.
Using applied improvisation, spontaneous joyful moments are offered to random people on the street
Individualized programs for elementary school kids, and adults and include themes like anti-bullying, suicide prevention, and stress relief
Our coaching for groups and individuals exist to help bring more well-being into focus
What is a Joyful Moment?
Joyful moments are pop-up moments of surprise, delight, play, fun, and healing using scientific and tried and true ways to bring Joy. From senior care staff, to random people, the purpose is to spread joy far and wide!
And we have already started! While on the road over the last year, many pop-up moments happened, with noses and other connectors in hand, we have spread joy even before we started this campaign. If that was a test, it was successful!
Why bring more joy into the workplace?
Higher Productivity
Higher Profits
More Cohesion between employees
Relational Development
More retention, less turnover, more loyalty
Building with our Joy First Ambassadors
Join us in building positive environments, and partner with Joy First Foundation
Customizable programs
We design programs for your needs, and we offer a curriculum you can follow along with your online or in-person programs
Purpose
To explore, create and bring joy to all living beings
Vision
Joy First Foundation evokes, embraces and energizes humanity through the understanding, offering, and creation of joyful experiences.
Mission
To provide opportunities to experience the best moments of life through immersive educational activities and content. We help re-imagine living and human development toward more joyful life experience.
Values
Love, Joy, Inclusion, Creativity, Fun
Why give to Joy First
- We offer random joyful moments to care workers, care givers, hospital staff and others who have been ravaged by COVID without vacations, and short staffed environments.
- We offer opportunities to gift a joyful moment to a loved one who needs some joy
- Joyful Yoga sessions that combine some fun, improvisation, laughter and movement designed for all ages and all abilities.
- Online joyful sessions for groups, organizations, corporations as team building using coaching skills to bring the team together.
- The Tour de Joy started in 2022 and is still going on – currently experimenting with engaging with local communities for months. The tour offers random joyful moments – which you can help support! And the tour offers “Building Bridges programs” for stress relief, suicide prevention, and anti-bullying.
- Talk with us and together we can come up with the perfect joyful moment for you or your loved ones
Joyful moments for individuals
Joyful moments for teams
Joyful moments for loved ones
Joyful moments online
Joyful moments in person
Joyful coaching
Joyful yoga