The Art and Science of Joy

Welcome to
the Year of Joy!

Your invitation to join the Joy Movement

You are joyfully invited to join us in the free Year of Joy online community for 12 months of inspiration and activities empowering you to harvest more joy in your own life, as well as to bring more joy into the lives of others!

A year full of opportunities to connect and share with people also intent on adding more joy to their lives.

Yours joyfully,

Debby and Andrew

Read on to discover how we can empower you on your joy journey or click the link below to join the community

Ready for your Joy Journey? Join the Year of Joy Community TODAY!

Meet Our Partners

We would like to thank our Partners, without whose fabulous support, passion and resources, the Year of Joy would not exist.
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YoJ 2024 partners
  • 10K Humans is our official community recruitment partner. Find out more about 10K Humans and their services via this link.
  • FlexMR is our official Year of Joy community platform partner. Find out more about FlexMR and their services via this link.
  • Jibunu is our official Joy Barometer and Joy Scorecard partner. Find out more about Jibunu and their services via this link.
  • ThinkNow is our official Hispanic / LatAm partner. Find out more about ThinkNow and their services via this link.

Discover Your Own Joy Cocktail

Over the last few years we have dug deep into the science of joy and interviewed 1000’s of people on what brings and what doesn’t bring joy into their lives.

We have discovered common ingredients contributing towards people’s feeling of joy, what we call the Recipe for Joy. But we also know that each person needs to mix the joy ingredients in the right way for them to make their very own joy cocktail so to speak.

Ready to make your own JOY cocktail? Join the Year of Joy Community TODAY!

Discover Your Own Joy Cocktail

Over the last few years we have dug deep into the science of joy and interviewed 1000’s of people on what brings and what doesn’t bring joy into their lives.

We have discovered common ingredients contributing towards people’s feeling of joy, what we call the Recipe for Joy. But we also know that each person needs to mix the joy ingredients in the right way for them to make their very own joy cocktail so to speak.

Ready to make your own cocktail?

Joy is a Journey

It might be a cliché, but joy is very much a journey and not a destination.

Perhaps you are already well along the way on your own joy journey or perhaps you are just starting your journey to intentionally bring more joy into your life? Either way, you are more than welcome to join us for a Year of Joy.

Ready to start your journey? Join the Year of Joy Community TODAY!

Joy is a Choice

The path to finding more joy is not always easy, especially in today’s challenging world. The many challenges we are facing both individually and collectively are negatively impacting many of us and the amount of joy we are feeling. Perhaps you are feeling the negative impacts too?

Research by scientists at Harvard shows that 40% of our feeling of joy is determined by our own actions. In other words, although we cannot control everything, we do have the possibility to make the choice and influence almost half – a whopping amount, which we can easily lose sight of in the midst of all the challenges.

Ready to choose joy? Join the FREE Year of Joy Community TODAY!

Finding Your Own Recipe for Joy

Our research tells us that many people are ready for more joy in their lives. It also tells us that many people are not sure how to go about finding more joy. Maybe that’s you?

When joining the Year of Joy community, one of the first things you get to do is to take the Joy Barometer and find out where you currently are on your very own Joy Journey. You’ll receive your own Joy Scorecard which will help you see your joy strengths, as well as the areas you can work on throughout the Year of Joy to enhance your feeling of joy and bring more joy to the lives of others.

Ready to discover your own Recipe for Joy? Join the Year of Joy Community TODAY!

Click on a card to find out more about each Joy Recipe Item

Joy is about Your Wellbeing
Joy is about Your Belonging
Joy is about Your Impact
Joy is about Your Experience

Growing your very
own Joy Muscles

Every month we will provide you with inspiration to harvest more joy in your life. We work with experts in the fields of wellbeing, belonging, positive impact and experiences to bring you curated content, inspiring stories and practical tips.

But to really grow your joy muscles inspiration alone is not enough. You need empowerment. That is why for each of the key Joy Ingredients we are offering you, for free, an 8 week activation program. Over an 8 week period, we will guide you on implementing practices which add joy to your life.

You choose which Joy Ingredients you want to work on and since change is hard, especially alone, we can connect you with one or more Joy Buddies from among our community members to support you on your Joy Journey.

Meet our Joy Experts

Welcome to the
Year of Joy community!

It’s free to join and there is no obligation to stay in the community if you don’t enjoy it. The only thing we ask is that you come into the community with an open mind and an open heart, as well as a willingness to put in the work, or rather play, needed to choose, find and harvest joy.

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Joy is about Your Wellbeing

Finding joy does not have to be about finding rainbows and unicorns, although for some it definitely is and there is certainly not much more uplifting than a rainbow. Just ask the people of the Marshall Islands, some of the happiest people in the world, in part at least because their word for ‘hello’ is ‘iwake’ or in English literally ‘you are a rainbow’.

Finding joy is also about making practical choices and changes to the way you live your life. And those changes start with you and the love you show yourself, the care you take of your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.

The Year of Joy is designed specifically to help you to make choices that improve your wellbeing

Ready to love yourself some more?

Joy is about Belonging

Joy is about finding your tribe where you can be yourself and authentically belong.

Change isn’t an easy thing. And finding joy in your life is not always easy either. We do know however that finding joy and making it stick is much, much easier when you are surrounded and supported by people, who are also working to add more joy into their lives.

For this reason, we have built a community element into the Year of Joy enabling you to connect and interact with people on a similar joy journey to yours, as well as to gain inspiration from people who are on different journeys. Sugar and spice.

Ready to find your joy tribe?

Joy is about Impact

Finding joy is also about having a positive impact. On yourself, on others.

Joy alone cannot solve all the world’s problems. But we believe that joy can be an important part of the solution. Joy can help us individually, and joy can also give us the strength to collectively come together to tackle the challenges the world is facing. The Year of Joy is our part to change the energy in the world from one of fear and hopelessness to one of optimism and joy.

The Year of Joy is designed to inspire and empower you to find your recipe for a more joy-filled life for your own benefit, the benefit of those you love, as well as for the benefit of humanity and the planet.

Ready to make an impact?

Joy is about Fun

Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in things that we forget to enjoy ourselves. The Year of Joy is designed to remind us to smell the flowers and have fun along the way to improving our wellbeing, increasing our sense of belonging and having a positive impact.

We’ll help plan for and harvest more joy in your life and to do so with a smile on your face and laugh or three.

Ready to have some fun?
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Help non-profit organizations with their fundraising

 

Are you involved in a non-profit organization? A charity, club or association for example? Do you know someone who is?

 

Is that organization interested in raising more funds?

 

The EQJOY card game is a fantastic product for a fundraising campaign.

 

 

Find out more about fundraising with EQJOY

Help us find EQJOY Brand Ambassadors

 

Do you know someone famous? Do you know someone who does? Do you think that famous person would like to positively impact children’s mental health by giving them the gift of emotional intelligence and have their personal brand associated with EQJOY?

 

Or…

 

Do you work for a sports team or know someone who does? Do you think that team could be interested in having that brand associated with EQJOY and with empowering children to develop their EQ?

 

Or…

 

Do you work for a company which owns a well-known brand or know someone who does? Do you think the company could be interested in having that brand associated with EQJOY and with empowering children to develop their EQ?

 

If so, click on the button below, tell us who you know and let’s discuss how to make this happen.

 

 

I know a potential EQJOY Brand Ambassador

Help us empower even more kids develop their EQ


Are you, or do you know well, any of the following:

 

 

  • A parent of a 6 to 9 year old struggling with their emotions

  • A primary school teacher

  • A middle school teacher

  • A sports psychologist

  • A decision-maker at a museum

 

If so, are you, or do you think they would be, interested in participating in our R&D work and thereby help us bring the gift of emotional intelligence to even more children?

 

If so, click on the button below to find out more about how to get involved with EQJOY’s R&D projects.

 

 

Find out more about EQJOY’s R&D projects

Empower children’s EQ development

 

I ask you to donate to our charity EQJOY Co.

 


EQJOY is on a mission to empower children to develop their emotional intelligence through play. Find out more about EQJOY here.

 


Your donations will be used to:

 

  • Give children in need packs of the EQJOY card game for free

  • Fund research and development of new EQ development tools

 


There are two paths to donations. For larger donations, click on the Champion Donor button below to find out more about the options. For smaller donations, click on the Donate Now button.

 

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Help us spread joy to even more people


Through the Year of Joy community, we have a proven track record of empowering people to harvest more joy in their lives, especially those people struggling to find joy.

 

I ask you to help us give the gift of joy to people by inviting them to join the Year of Joy community to which we are currently offering free membership.

 

Share the link below with the people you know who could do with more joy in their lives.

 

DISCOVER THE JOYS OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE YEAR OF JOY COMMUNITY AND JOIN

 

 

It just might be the biggest gift you give them this year!


If you would like to invite a lot of people, you might be interested in being an official Year of Joy invite partner. Click on the button below to find out more.

 

 

Become a Year of Joy Invite Partner

Participate in an Insights Business Impact workshop for free

 

This gift is a special gift to my peers in the market research and insights sector. A sector which has given me so many gifts over the years. 

 

If you work in the sector, or are interested in doing so, I’m offering you the opportunity to participate in one of six free workshops I’ll be running on the topic of the ROI of Insights.

 

During this 3-hour workshop you’ll discover how to measure and demonstrate the business impact of Insights. 

 

You will leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how to measure the value Insights is contributing to the business, as well as how to craft a compelling story to demonstrate that value.

 

Spaces are limited so find out more and register today

Participate in a Discover Your Recipe for Joy workshop for free

 

I’m offering you the opportunity to participate in one of six free workshops I’ll be running. 

 

During this 3-hour workshop you’ll discover the drivers of and the barriers to joy. You’ll be guided on a journey to craft your own Recipe for Joy and will leave the workshop with a plan for taking the next steps on your path to harvesting more joy in your life.

 

Spaces are limited so find out more and register today

Receive a free Joy Superpower webinar for your organization

 

I’m giving away 24 Joy Superpower webinars for free.  

 

During the webinar I will share how through the Year of Joy initiative we were able to significantly boost people’s joy levels and I will lead the webinar attendees on a journey to discover how they can build their own joy muscles as well as bring more joy to the lives of others.

Find out more and apply