PHL - JOYVILLE! Rediscovering and Activating Your JOY Muscle! (May 5th - 3pm to 5:30pm)
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JOYVILLE!
Rediscovering and Activating your Joy Muscle
An immersive, in-person experience with Joy Sardinsky
Tuesday May 5, 2026
3:00pm to 5:30pm
IBX LIVE / 1919 Market Street / Philadelphia
Members: $15 / Non-member Guest: $30 / Non Members: $35
Why JOY? Why Now?
The impetus for developing this program comes from the pervasive negative feelings so many of us are experiencing today. Across multiple national surveys, the most consistently reported feelings are stress, anxiety, loneliness, lack of emotional support, fatigue and concern about the future.
That's why this matters now.
The JOYVILLE Program gives you the tools and power to rediscover, cultivate, access and sustain positive emotions — even when life feels heavy. It is an interactive, immersive experience designed to spark happiness, connection and a renewed sense of joy.
A critical part of our well-being is the emotional aspect. This program focuses on reawakening the joy component of wellbeing — what we call building your "joy muscle" — so you can access positive emotional states more intentionally.
Research shows that JOY is more than just a pleasant feeling—it actively supports wellbeing and performance. Positive emotional states can:
- Enhance resilience and reduce stress
- Broaden thinking and creativity
- Strengthen relationships and trust
- Boost motivation and performance
The Joyville experience is about feeling your joy, understanding what drives it and learning how to sustain it.
Key takeaways:
- Rediscovering your joyful feelings in an unbridled way
- Identifying what instinctively makes you happy
- Learning simple, positive psychology exercises to access that happy state
This is about reclaiming something that's already within you and learning how to draw on it when you need it most.
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Workshop Leader: Joy Sardinsky
Joy Sardinsky has 30+ years of experience using non-traditional interactive exercises, sensory stimulation and facilitated discussion to elicit deep-seated feelings. These techniques have helped women open up to be in touch with what gives them joy and happiness in their personal lives and how to get more of it.
For decades, Joy has hosted salons which enable participants to experience being unselfconscious, relaxed, enlightened and have enhanced self-awareness in a fun, non-traditional context. She had been told that she naturally "choregraphs and leads events for a broader purpose: informing, enlightening and experiencing joy".
In addition to earning a BA from the University of Pennylvania and a Wharton MBA, Joy has more recently studied Positive Psychology with field founder Martin Seligman at University of Pennsylvania and Mindfulness with the Penn Program for Mindfulness directed by Dr. Michael Baime.
Event Contact(s)
Marsha Yankelev
Registration Info
Registration is required before Monday, May 04, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Registration modifications are permitted until Saturday, May 02, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Cancellation Policy:
If you are a member and cancel your registration before the specified deadline, you will receive a full refund as a credit to your account. You can use the credit to pay for another event or put it toward your annual dues payment. Non-members will receive a refund on their credit card, minus a $4 processing fee.
No refunds are available to members or non-members after the cancellation deadline.
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