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KAUA’I JOYLAB PRESENTS…

Pathways to Joy

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SOUL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP

come, rest, create, enjoy and return to yourself

Soul Storytelling is medicine for the heart and a joy awakening path. It travels inward — down into the dark, intimate chambers of the psyche — to touch parts of us that have been hidden, wounded, or forgotten and bring them back into waking life.

A transformative story moves with surgical tenderness, locating the hurt and transmitting insights that foster growth, joy, love, peace, and healing.

The most powerful stories are born of your own life — stained with struggle, grief, and loss — and transformed into resilience and thriving. They are moments when you completed an impossible task and returned with hard‑won wisdom; the slow recovery from addiction; the sharp liberation from a relationship or job that drained your light. These tales are not polished anecdotes but living myths — raw, specific, and deeply generative.

At the heart of Soul Storytelling is the wild human spirit: fierce, intuitive, instinctive, and indestructible. Even after long dormancy, the soul can awaken to reclaim freedom, creativity, and joy.

When you tell stories with love, honesty, and courage, you do more than narrate experience — you offer a joy pathway for others. A single truthful telling story can open a door for someone else to remember, breathe, and change; in giving voice to the soul, you reclaim your true self.

In our Soul Storytelling workshop, you will learn to retrieve vital fragments, shape them with care, and share them with clarity and compassion — so your story can be medicine for you and for the people who need it most.

Together we will descend with care, gather what’s been lost, and return it — luminous, intact, and ready to do our real work in the world.

THERE IS SO MUCH TO LOOKING FORWARD TO:

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— Live Storytelling — Entertaining and Transformative

We use the spoken word as our primary storytelling method, honoring the oral traditions many cultures relied on to transmit wisdom. Beyond entertainment, these stories carry medicine for heart and soul — lived truths that heal and inspire.

— Collaborative Creation

Stories grow richer when co‑authored. Participants will practice collaborative narrative techniques, learning how to build scenes, voices, and meaning together.

— Visual Storytelling

A single, powerful photograph can capture a specific moment and tell a whole story. Participants will share their art to tell their story.

— Active listening

Listening is active work: empathy, imagination, and emotional attunement. You’ll practice listening skills that deepen connection and help stories land — listening with “three ears”: two on our head and one in our heart.

— Concise, practical exercises and guided practices will move you from memory to crafted story ready to share.

WHERE

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Kaua‘i, Hawaii — a living soul-melody — emerald mountains shrouded in mist, waterfalls spilling into hidden pools, and quiet beaches where ocean meets sky. The air smells of plumeria and salt; the rhythms of hula and surf invite stillness. Rooted in Aloha and ancestral care for the ʻāina, the island slows time, opens the heart, and calls you back to wonder, breathe, and soulful belonging.

WHO

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Authors, writers, creatives, healers, cultural practitioners, artists, therapists, elders, and seekers ready to turn life into SOUL medicine and speak and write from the heart with clarity and compassion.

WHEN ____________________________________________________

Our 3-day Soul Storytelling workshop are offered throughout the year — dates TBA:

February: 2026
March: 2026
April: 2026

SPECIAL GUESTS

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— Grandfather Golden Eagle: Local Native American & Spiritual Teacher/ Storyteller

In indigenous oral traditions, storytelling is the living method for teaching cultural beliefs, values, rituals, history and relational wisdom. Grandfather Golden Eagle’s stories are offered as a foundation for healing, experiential learning, and relationship building—transmitting ancestral guidance in ways that nurture body, mind, and soul.

— Jigna Patel: Retreat Leader and Mindfulness Coach

Jigna is devoted to walking and guiding others on the path of true freedom. With a heart attuned to the wisdom of rest, stillness, and presence, she creates spaces where we can gently set down the roles and expectations that have kept us bound, and remember the vast, unshakable wholeness within. www.shaktisisters.love

HOST, FACILITATOR & ORGANIZER

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— Valeria Koopman and team: Author and Founder of Fit for Joy

Valeria is a dedicated advocate for wholehearted living and a devoted messenger of joy. After years of trauma, she chose resilience over tragedy, transforming pain into compassionate and creative living. She is the author of three books — her Fit for Joy online community has hundreds of well‑being practitioners and authors. Over six joyful years of collaboration, her podcast has reached thousands, and Valeria was humbled by a Helen Keller Award nomination in 2025..

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OUR SHARED VISION

To restore harmony within ourselves and renew ways of living that are caring and sustaining—for one another, all beings, and Mother Earth."

REGISTER TODAY ____________________________________________________

To register email us (valeria@fitforjoy.org) the following information:

Your preferred month, your full name, contact number, and a brief description of you and your work.
A non-refundable deposit of $1,200 is required to confirm your registration and secure your space.
3-Day all inclusive : $4,850
— workshop indoor/outdoor, stay, buffet-style Hawaiian foods, one tour & a lomi lomi massage —
3- Day workshop only : $3,200
— workshop indoor/outdoor, and buffet-style Hawaiian foods —
— Airfare not included —
Limited seats for an intimate, grounded experience.