Beyond Survival: Harnessing Joy as a Pathway to Healing, Resilience, and Liberation
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Chronic stress. Collective trauma. Intergenerational trauma. Systemic oppression. These are the daily realities many of your clients carry, and joy is too often treated as secondary to addressing them, something to revisit once the “real” work is done.
But in the Liberation Psychology framework, joy isn't secondary. It's a protective factor and a resistance strategy in its own right, one that confronts oppression while activating an affirmative cultural identity.
That's why we brought in Dr. Thema Bryant, past president of the American Psychological Association, Pepperdine professor and director of the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory, and bestselling author of Homecoming, to introduce the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model, a framework outlining seven pathways to cultivate and sustain joy among marginalized clients.
And the best part? It's completely FREE!
This isn't a surface-level conversation about positive thinking. It's a grounded, case-based practice for expanding resilience and affirming identity in clients who need it most.
You'll learn how to:
- Apply the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model's seven pathways to cultivate and sustain joy
- Use joy as a protective factor and resistance strategy against trauma and oppression
- Integrate joy into therapy to expand resilience and affirm identity
Joy isn't the reward that comes after the work. For your clients, it can be the work.
At no cost, you can bring this framework into your practice.
Register to attend for FREE today!
*2 Cultural Competency CE hours available. Register for more details.
*2 Cultural Competency CE hours available. Register for more details.
- How oppression, systemic forces, and intergenerational trauma shape psychological experience
- Marginalized communities and affirming cultural identity and humanity
- Use joy, spirituality, creativity, and community support as liberatory practices
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- An emotion with physical, psychological, and social benefits
- Functions as a protective factor and resistance strategy in liberation psychology
- Counter to chronic stress, oppression, and collective trauma
- Strengthen resilience and affirm cultural identity and wholeness
- Joy as a liberatory and transformative practice for marginalized clients
- Support reclaiming agency, strengthening resilience, and affirming identity
- Encourage honest reflection around trauma, identity, and lived experience
- Help clients uncover truths that contribute to healing and empowerment
- Spirituality as a meaningful contributor to joy and resilience
- Use of spiritual practices to help sustain joy
- Importance of the balance between engagement and restoration as supportive of joy
- Help clients cultivate rhythms that foster presence, rest, and well-being
- The importance of social and community support for mental health
- Connection, belonging, and supportive relationships
- Creativity to cultivate joy and affirm personal and cultural identity
- Building resilience and agency through creative expression
- How joy is connected to physical experience and the body
- Encourage reconnection with the body as a source of vitality and joy
- Self-awareness around identity, experience, and therapeutic influence
- Self-care and community care
- Becoming an agent of change
We know professional training costs add up fast — especially when you're trying to stay current, serve complex clients well, and meet CE or certification requirements.
So for this event, the live two-hour training is free to attend.
You can register, join Dr. Thema Bryant live, take notes, ask questions, and bring the clinical tools back into your work with clients. If you want CE credit and recording access, you'll have the option to upgrade after registration.
That's it. No hidden catch. Just free access to the live training, with paid CE upgrade available if that supports your goals.
*2 Cultural Competency CE hours available. Register for more details.
No catch. The live two-hour training is free to attend. You can register, join Dr. Thema Bryant live, take notes, ask questions, and bring the clinical tools back into your work with clients. If you want CE credit and recording access, you'll have the option to upgrade after registration — but the live training itself is free.
If your clients are carrying more than individual trauma — if they're also navigating chronic stress, systemic oppression, intergenerational wounds, cultural disconnection, or the exhaustion of simply surviving — this training was built for the work you're already doing.
You'll learn how to move beyond trauma-focused frameworks alone and begin using joy as a practical, clinically relevant intervention: a protective factor, a resistance strategy, and a pathway for helping marginalized clients reclaim identity, agency, resilience, and wholeness.
Grounded in liberation psychology, Dr. Thema Bryant's J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model gives you seven applied pathways you can begin integrating into session — so joy is not treated as an afterthought, but as part of the healing process itself.
This free training is especially relevant for professionals who support marginalized clients, including:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
If you want a more culturally responsive, identity-affirming way to help clients move from survival toward restoration, this training belongs on your calendar.
Just register today above with your name and email, then click the “LIVE CE” button on the next page to purchase your credit package for just $59.99 (discounted from $129.99) — only available for those who register here and purchase before the end of the webinar.
Yes! Just register above and then click the “Self Study” CE button on the next page and purchase the recording package. You'll get unlimited access to the training and will be able to earn self-study CE.
YES! You'll be able to engage with the presenter and chat with colleagues throughout the presentation.
November 12 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm CT. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Yes, anyone who registers will get 3 days access to watch the archived recording once it is made available.
*2 Cultural Competency CE hours available. Register for more details.