6 ways to end your year with some joy
As 2025 comes to a close, many people you know are navigating transition, uncertainty, loss. and challenging new experiences, in all areas of their lives. We could all use a bit more acknowledgement, connection, and soothing right now.
How are you bringing joy to your school, office, or family in these challenging times? What’s your Joy Action Plan for prioritizing individual, role-related, and community wellness in 2026?
Here are 5 ways GetSomeJoy can help your community end this year with awareness + celebration and start your new year with intention and joy.
How we’re spreading joy:
GetSomeJoy Community Experiences: Tools, trainings, and opportunities for connection, learning, and growth, for everyone
GetSomeJoy@Work: Wellness programming + resources for staff, leaders, partners, stakeholders, clients, community members, etc.
GetSomeJoy@School: For learners, family/caregivers, staff, faculty, leaders, community members, etc.
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make time for celebration, connection, and collaboration with a getsomejoy@school or getsomejoy@work day
Wrap up the year or start a new one with a big dose of joy. This dynamic mental health pep rally offers space for reflection and connection, lots of resources, and opportunities for community building and mutual aid.
For this in-person or virtual GetSomeJoy@Work/GetSomeJoy@School Day, we’ll:
send a resource-packed Joy Report Newsletter before + after our engagement,
engage with creative wellness prompts via our Community Literary Therapy Wall (or hop into our Virtual Literary Therapy Wall),
host a GetSomeJoy Awards ceremony to celebrate ourselves and each other,
create space for exploring grief, loss, transition, or other topics impacting individual, role-related, and community wellness, and
collaborate on a creative wellness resource toolkit that can support your community after our time together.
Add-on sessions:
[for leadership] Creating Space for Joy: Cultivating Safer, Trauma-Informed, Workplaces + Communities
Sunshine in Raggedy Times: Supporting Team Members with Trauma-Informed Care + Sustainable Resources
cultivate a more supportive environment with a mental health first aid training or series
Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use challenges in non-crisis and crisis situations.
Participants receive a three-year Mental Health First Aid certification upon completion under the guidance of a Mental Health First National Trainer.
Available Deliveries: In-Person, Blended In-Person, Blended Virtual
Mental Health First Aid will help your community:
Increase mental health literacy,
Reduce stigma,
Practice talking about hard topics,
Learn to step in with an effective plan,
Improve mental well-being with self-care
Available Editions:
Adult Mental Health First Aid
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid for Higher Education
Primeros Auxilios Para la Salud Mental
ADD A JOY-INFUSED KEYNOTE, BREAKOUT SESSION, AND INTERACTIVE WELLNESS EXHIBIT TO YOUR CONFERENCE, RETREAT, Meeting, SUMMIT, OR EXPO
GetSomeJoy can add a little or big dose of joy to your next engagement or campaign. With flexible programming options, there’s always time and space for reflection, connection, and collaboration. Here are a few ideas:
Literary Therapy Wall + Resources (all-day, multiple days)
GetSomeJoy Video Check-Ins (all day)
Conference/Event Welcome/Grounding Activity (5-10 mins)
Community Mental Health Check-In (15-30 mins)
Keynote Presentation / Panel discussion (30-90 mins)
Breakout Session/Workshop (60-120 mins)
Mental Health Check-In @ the NMAC Regional CBO Leadership Conference (Oakland, CA)
a few of our past + present partners in joy
offer joy-infused space to process + big feelings, raggedy times, and transition with a literary therapy writing session
GetSomeJoy’s Literary Therapy Writing Workshops and Breakout Sessions offer a casual space to use writing, group sharing, creative collaboration, and resource sharing to explore and cultivate tools for navigating issues impacting individual, role-related, and community wellness.
Available as a one-time or ongoing series. We use our Literary Therapy Framework to work through topics like:
Navigating Grief + Loss with Storytelling
Supporting Children Navigating Grief + Loss
Supporting Team Members Navigating Grief + Loss
Caregiving and Mental Health
Literary Therapy for Community Health Workers
Workplace Mental Health + Creating Space for Joy @ Work
Literary Therapy for Students
Literary Therapy for Educators + Administrators
Literary Therapy for Leaders + Managers
+ other conversations relevant to your community
create space for conversation, storytelling, and connection with a virtual or in-person community cook-along
Everybody gotta eat. GetSomeJoy’s Community Cook-alongs combine delicious food with a conversation around, for example, family food traditions or meals connected to joyful memories or rituals.
We’ll share a recipe with a few potential modifications ahead of time so attendees can prepare.
Then we’ll convene to make a special dish together (we have suggestions!) and discuss the chosen theme (grief+ food, holiday traditions around food, food and mental health, or a conversation happening in your community). We’ll follow up with a Joy Report Newsletter with additional dishes to try and more tools for thriving.
support your team, clients, students, or community with custom griefkits
These grief guides provide articles, books, poetry, communities,center joy and wellbeing amidst devastation and loss
Standard griefKits with GetSomeJoy Community reflections and insights
Custom griefKits that reflect your communities stories, tools, and images
not sure where to start? need HELP DEVELOPING YOUR community’s 2026 JOY AGENDA?
we got you.
Schedule a GetSomeJoy Community Wellness Consultation today.
