Get Some Joy

Join us at tonight's GetSomeJoy Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/march-peer-support

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with , a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve taken our creative wellness tools, our Community Literary Therapy Wall, and our fried chicken stickers to Houston, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Detroit to celebrate, pour into, resource, and learn from leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients from across the country. Together, we explored ideas for cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration (and how they’re taking care of themselves and others along the way).

See how we’re supporting community builders on GetSomeJoy.com. (Link in our bio)

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with NMAC, a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients across the country about cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration.

Learn more about our joy-infused partnership:
https://www.getsomejoy.com/newsandmedia/nmac-regional-cbo-leadership-summits

Spreading Joy @ NMAC's Regional CBO Leadership Summits — getsomejoy GetSomeJoy has partnered with NMAC, one of the nation’s largest HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations to bring joy-infused creative wellness resources to their 4-part Regional CBO Summit series. Literary Therapy Writing Program, leadership development, staff wellness, conference keynote, breakout, keyno...

GetSomeJoy kicked off the new year by bringing creative wellness tools to NMAC's CBO Northeast Summit in Philadelphia.

After a rousing keynote by Sean M. Smith-Garçon, Director of The EPIcenter for Integrated Health @ NMAC, GetSomeJoy co-founder Alex Hardy invited attendees to celebrate themselves and the ways they've shown up for themselves and their communities via a GetSomeJoy Awards ceremony.

Attendees shared beautiful stories and applauded each other, and Alex invited people to

✅ do the exercise with their communities monthly or quarterly, and

✅ continue sharing their awards with him throughout the day in exchange for our beloved fried chicken stickers.

We gave out so many stickers.

And we talked to so many leaders about how they're prioritizing mental health amidst uncertainty and pouring into themselves and their teams.

We shared our griefKit resource guide (getsomejoy.com/griefkit), invited attendees to our biweekly Peer Support Groups (getsomejoy.com/peer-support), and conducted mental health check-ins via the Community Literary Therapy Wall.

Conference food highlights:

🍗 that tiramisu-like situation during the lunch plenary

🍗 the birria grilled cheese @ Continental down the bloc

🍗 the Italian Market Omelet @ Green Eggs Cafe across the street

Excited to spread more joy (and collect local food recommendations) next month at NMAC's CBO Midwest Summit February 23-26 in Detroit.

[Sunday, January 18] Join us tomorrow for GetSomeJoy's Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/january18-getsomejoy-peer-support-group
+ Spreading joy @ NMAC's Regional Leadership Summit in Philadelphia

How are you coping & finding joy during this holiday season? What resources, rituals, or mindsets are supporting you? What support do you need?

Join us tonight (December 3) @ 7:30pm ET via Zoom for a welcoming space to share about your mental health + how you’re doing, hear how others are making it, offer/receive hope + insights, and exchange tools for thriving. No diagnosis or insurance required!

Register here + bring snacks: bit.ly/gsjgroup-dec3

This week, we’re bringing some JOY to NMAC’s CBO Leadership Summit in Oakland with our Community Literary Therapy Wall and creative wellness resources for the wonderful folks supporting vulnerable people and families through HIV/AIDS advocacy, care, funding, and more.

GetSomeJoy co-founder Alex Hardy created space for celebration and intention setting in a morning grounding/impromptu awards ceremony before today’s keynote. And the participants showered themselves with creative awards like “the Putting Myself First Award” and the “Adaptability Award.” Shoutout to everyone who celebrated themselves and applauded their colleagues. We brought postcards, fried chicken stickers, griefKits, and invitations to our biweekly Peer Support Groups. On Day 1, we made new friends, found enthusiastic collaborators, got some restaurant recommendations, and received some great hugs.

Excited for Day 2. Next stops: Brooklyn, Detroit, Hampton, and Philly

How can journaling and other creative wellness strategies help us navigate raggedy times?

We’re co-hosting this month’s Unmuted: Grief Unfolded — A Guided Writing Experience with our friends at The Lotus Club , a nonprofit supporting Black women navigating workplace burnout, grief, and stress.

This free Zoom session is a chance to slow down, get cozy, and explore grief in all its forms through guided writing, mindfulness, and community care. Bring your journal, a blanket, snacks, and yourself—just as you are.

📅 Date: Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET

🔗 Register here:

Unmuted: Grief Unfolded — A Guided Writing Experience A free Zoom session co-hosted by GetSomeJoy. Guided writing + dialogue to explore grief with compassion.

What are you doing to GetSomeJoy this month?

We’re spreading joy (and tools for thriving) wherever people are peopling and eating good along the way.

So far this month, we discussed writing + mental health work with ’s ENG101 class at and kicked off our monthly First Friday Coworking Session series with ’s & .

We fed loved ones while sharing GetSomeJoy’s fall/winter Joy Action Plan. Then off to Houston for a morning grounding + Community Literary Wall pop-up at ’s Regional CBO Leadership Summit.

Our Literary Therapy Wall made it to Norristown, PA last night for the Joy & Wellness in Uncertain Times Learning Collaborative with Montgomery County () Dept of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health Trauma Informed System of Care.

Saturday, our first training with college ambassadors. Whew!

Learn about and register for our upcoming events at GetSomeJoy.com or via the link in our bio.

Join tomorrow's First Friday Coworking Session - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/october-events

GetSomeJoy is happy to announce an ongoing collaboration with Deme and Mirasha of The Lotus Club to create a monthly opportunity for connection, collaboration, and joy.

After hosting coworking + cowriting sessions for the past few years among friends, peers, and friends of friends, we're carving out a regular space for accountability, support, motivation, and community building.

Join us this Friday, October 3 @ 12PM-2PM ET (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT) on Zoom for our inaugural GetSomeJoy x The Lotus Club First Friday Coworking Session. We'll check in, share our goals for the session, and do a few short work sprints together.

REGISTER HERE: https://luma.com/3ysb6epi

Bring your tasks, homework, home projects, arts + crafts, to-do lists, meal prep, and whatever else. Invite a friend and stay as long as you want.

ABOUT THE LOTUS CLUB:
The Lotus Club (TLC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit wellness community that supports Black women navigating workplace trauma, chronic stress and burnout. We center healing, empowerment and the right to exist abundantly—unbound by systemic inequities or societal expectations. https://www.thelotusclub.co/

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