The JOY+WELL

VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON CREATIVE WRITING EXPERIENCES / WORKSHOPS

Led by award-winning poet, actor, and certified trauma specialist and physician, .CHISARAOKWU., these offerings provide space for imagination, dreaming, creativity, and rest, especially for Black women and women of the global majority. Consider joining us for the next “Finding Your JOY Excavation Workshop,” held 3 times per year, or one of our Creative Circles. For more information, email hello [at] livejoywell [dot] com, or contact me. Ask about our one-on-one and private group offerings for corporations, non-profits, and families.

Previous Offerings

Poetry As Counternarrative

Poetry & Praise: An Intro to the Praise Poem

DisCartographies: (Un)Mapping the Body

The Creative Writing Circle (monthly generative writing space)

Finding Your Joy: The JOY+WELL Excavation Experience

The Body Archive

Poetry & Tea w/ Chi (National Poetry Month Offering)

Finding Joy in the Ache: Writing Through Trauma

Breaking the Rules: Our Bodies As Sanctuaries

JOY & The Creative Life

Write Your Joy Series (Generative Writing Circles exploring Meditation, Ecopoetics, and Healing)

Along with additional offerings for non-profit organizations, foundations, and schools. Contact me to host or facilitate a workshop with your organization or group.

PODCAST

The JOY+WELL Conversations w/ Chisara Asomugha, MD is a limited-run series born out of a need to talk to Black women about their joy-lives. Women, especially women of African ancestry, have treasure troves of joy, but in a world that wants to “steal our joy” it’s important to remind ourselves of the “joy wells” in our own lives. Guests have included actress, artist and yogi Crystal McCreary, Emmy award-winning theologian and author of “Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body,” Rev. Lyvonne Briggs, and Baltimore native and cultural critic Kimberly Shorter, and many more. Check out the limited run series here.

The JOY+WELL Blog

Brief essays developing and maintaining a joy practice. From real life experiences, to the supernatural and mundane, these humurous musings form the basis for an upcoming book called Joy!