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KAUA’I JOYLAB PRESENTS…
Pathways to Joy Virtual
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STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
“Feel the magic and delight in her incredibly inspiring beauty and the resonance of her love.”
Storytelling is medicine for the SOUL and an incredibly important pathway to JOY!
It’s a joy-awakening path that fosters mental health, restores belonging, and cultivates inner peace.
The life-affirming stories we tell ourselves and others travel inward to parts of us that have been hidden, wounded, or forgotten, bringing them gently back into waking life; a truly transformative story locates the hurt with surgical tenderness and conveys insights that foster understanding, emotional growth, renewed purpose, and relief from isolation.
The most powerful stories are born from your own life — textured by struggle, loneliness, grief, or loss — and alchemized into resilience, purpose, vision, and thriving. They arrive from moments when you faced the impossible and returned with hard-won wisdom. Those stories reconnect us to our untamed spirit: fierce, intuitive, instinctive, and indestructible.
Creative storytelling offers practical pathways to joy and measurable emotional relief. By shaping experience into coherent narrative you regulate emotion, reframe traumatic memories, and reduce the replaying of anxious loops. Telling and hearing stories strengthens social connection and belonging, counters shame, and cultivates agency — all factors that can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. Story work helps reconsolidate painful memories with new meaning, calms the nervous system through embodied expression, and opens compassionate perspective toward oneself and others.
When you tell stories with love, honesty, and courage, you do more than narrate experience — you offer a healing pathway for both yourself and listeners. A single truthful telling can open a door to resonate, remember, pause, and change; in giving voice to the soul, you reclaim your true self and invite joy to take root.
In our virtual JOYLAB Storytelling Workshop you will share your pathway to joy, listen, and learn how storytelling becomes living medicine—supporting mental health, easing anxiety and depression, and making these messages accessible to everyone.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
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WHEN
June 11 at 7pm EST - 2026
Duration: 90 minutes
WHERE
Zoom — The link will be sent to you upon registration
WHO
Authors, therapists, coaches, social workers, well-being practitioners, doctors, writers, creators, healers, cultural practitioners, elders. Anyone open to collaborate and share pathways of joy.
*No experience required, only openness and a readiness to explore the truth already living inside you.*
main components…
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1 — Live Storytelling: Present your story aloud—recite, sing, move, or perform—bringing hard‑won wisdom and joyful presence into the shared space.
3 — Pathways to Joy: Translate insights into clear, repeatable messages and practices that soothe anxiety, ease depressive patterns, restore purpose and inner peace, and cultivate belonging and everyday calm.
4 — Collaborative Creation: Co‑author scenes and develop voice and meaning with others to deepen resonance, expand creative possibilities, and create teachable pathways to joy.
HOST, FACILITATORS & SPECIAL GUESTS
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— Valeria Koopman: Author, Podcaster and Founder of Fit for Joy & Kaua’i JoyLab
— Anusia Gillespie: Soul Toll Author, Storytelling Facilitator & Fit for Joy Board
SECURE YOUR SPOT TODAY
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Contribution: $75.
The workshop is intentionally organized to preserve the quality and sacredness of the experience.
Our Workshop Includes:
Recorded video shared across our platforms.
You receive the full edited group video featuring all participants.
You receive an edited solo video showcasing only your segment.
Short 30‑second highlights capturing the most insightful "pathways to joy" moments from the gathering.
A non-refundable deposit of $1,200 will be required to confirm your registration and secure your space
with balance of payment due 30 days prior to the workshop date.
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TOUR IN THE SACRED LAND OF KAUA’I
Experience her transcendent, natural grace—let her beauty uplift your Soul
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Cultural Luau
Land of beauty, magic, and rainbows!
Anini Beach - North Shore
