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Become a Certified
Joy Facilitator™
Embody Joy. Facilitate transformation. Lead from the inside out.
For the person who feels called to guide, lead, or facilitate and is ready to do it with confidence, structure, and Joy.Â
APPLY NOWThis is not a program that gives you a certificate and sends you on your way.
This is a 6-month personal and professional transformation. A certification, a mentorship, and a becoming all rolled into one. You will learn how to embody The Joy Method™, facilitate transformational Joy Sessions™, lead with presence and nervous system awareness, and build the brand clarity to share this work with confidence.
But more than any of that, you'll become someone who has done the work themselves. Who leads from lived experience rather than borrowed theory. Who knows how to hold a room, guide real transformation, and show up from a place of genuine alignment rather than performance or depletion.
Joy is not toxic positivity. It's not a bypass. It's one of the most grounded, honest, and practical leadership frameworks and it changes everything it touches.
This work integrates mindfulness, positive psychology, nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, embodied leadership, and facilitation skills, not because we are trying to cover everything, but because real transformation requires all of it working together. You won't just learn these things. You will live them.
You will have a framework you can teach: The Joy Method™, Joy Sessions™, and a complete facilitation methodology that is yours to bring into any room you walk into.
You will embody a practice that sustains you: nervous system awareness, embodied leadership, and Joy as a daily standard rather than something you chase or perform.
You will build a foundation to grow from: brand clarity, aligned visibility, and the confidence to share your work in a way that actually feels like you.
Our graduates come from places that might surprise you. Corporate boardrooms, wellness studios, ICU nursing floors, yoga studios, engineering firms, classrooms, psychiatric practices, living rooms, retreat centres, HR departments, photography studios, law offices, leadership suites, and some completely unexpected places in between.
This is not about what you do or what your background is. It is about how you want to live and lead and the impact you feel called to make. Joy does not discriminate. And you might just be one of the people here to help others access it.
If you are feeling the call, this is where you trust it.
What Our Graduates Are SayingÂ
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"The opportunities that have flowed in since the program began have been nothing short of magical."
"This program didn't just shift what I do. It shifted who I am. The way I show up for my family, my friendships, and most importantly, for myself. Joy stopped being something I chased or had to wait for — and became something I choose. Every. Single. Day.
The opportunities that have flowed in since the program began have been nothing short of magical."
Chantal Menard, Inner Shifts
Certified Joy Facilitator™, The Academy of Joyful Living
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"This program has strengthened my belief in myself, my work, and the life I am creating."
"I feel deeply grateful, proud, and honestly a little in awe of what this program has awakened in me.
I feel more grounded in who I am, more confident in what I'm here to share, and more connected to the possibilities ahead of me. This program has strengthened my belief in myself, my work, and the life I am creating.
I can clearly see the vision for my work. I can feel the energy behind it. I feel lifted. I feel aligned. I feel ready."
Leanne Mutlow, Modern Mystic Wellness
Certified Joy Facilitator, The Academy of Joyful Living
Hear directly from our graduates...
Real conversations with Certified Joy Facilitators™. The coaches, creatives, corporate professionals, healers, and purpose-driven humans who felt the pull toward something more and said yes. Watch a few. You will likely hear your own story in theirs.
This is for you if...
Maybe you've been circling this for a while. Feeling the pull and talking yourself out of it. Wondering if you are ready, if you have enough, if the timing is right.
You will know if this is you if:
âś“ There's something in you that feels ready to stop waiting and start sharing. Not because everything is figured out. Because the call is getting louder than the doubt.
âś“ You want work that fills you as much as it serves others. Not pouring from empty. Not performing. Something that actually feels good to live inside of.
✓ You know the things you've learned and walked through would be helpful for others. Your lived experience is not a liability. It's your greatest gift.
âś“ You already have a practice, a business, or a methodology and you want to bring Joy into it. Not starting from scratch. Adding depth, embodiment, and a framework that elevates everything it touches.
âś“ You're ready to stop building a life around obligation and start building one around Joy. You've outgrown the version of yourself that kept going out of duty or performance. Something different is calling.
âś“ You're building something new and want a real professional foundation to grow from. Not a business handed to you. A complete framework, a proven methodology, and the clarity to make it yours.
✓ Part of you is excited. Part of you is nervous. And you're ready to show up anyway. That combination is not a red flag. It's exactly the right place to begin.
What would it mean to build something around what actually lights you up?
This is not for you if...
You want a quick fix without the inner work. This work requires real commitment, to showing up, doing the inner work, and using what you learn.
✗ You tend to purchase programs and not finish them. This is a 6-month certification with live attendance, weekly integration work, and 6 practicum submissions. It is designed to be lived, not consumed. If that pattern is present, please sit with it before applying.
✗ You don't have an audience yet and visibility feels terrifying. This certification gives you the tools, the framework, and the Joyful Branding™ training to help you get there. The visibility work is part of the journey AND while it's supported, you need to be willing to show up and be seen.
âś— You're looking for a done-for-you business or guaranteed income. This is not a business-in-a-box. You'll walk away with a complete professional framework and the clarity to build something meaningful, but the building is yours.
✗ You want someone to carry you through. This program meets you where you're at, AND you will need to do the work. It requires honesty, presence, full commitment and responsibility.
✗ You're not open to self-reflection or being stretched. Growth edges are part of the curriculum. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be willing.
✗ You're expecting overnight results. This is a body of work you embody and integrate over time. The transformation is deep and it unfolds at the pace of genuine integration.
From your Lead Joy Educator
I've built this from the inside out, and lived every step of it.
Over ten years ago, I had my version of a rock bottom. And when I finally got honest with myself, that moment felt like absolute freedom.
* Want to hear the full story? Listen to Episode 1 of The Joy Journey PodcastÂ
But freedom is rarely free. Getting here cost me comfort. It cost me approval and validation. It cost me my need to make everyone else okay in order for me to feel okay. I lost friendships. I lost family members. And I had to make Joy my number one priority, which meant honouring myself, and deciding that how I felt mattered most, above everything else...
What I gained was more valuable than anything I have ever experienced. I reclaimed myself, my truth, and a life that feels good from the inside out.
That is the work. That is what I teach. And it is what I continue to practice, deeply, every day.
Since 2018 when I started facilitating Joy Sessions™, what struck me most was the connection in the room. The sense of people coming home to themselves. Something that felt so simple on the surface was genuinely changing lives — people were learning how to practically feel better, take full accountability for how they felt, and begin living in real alignment with their values.
That is not a small thing. It is everything.
And in 2021 I could no longer ignore the call. I knew the world needed more Joy than I alone could bring. That the only way to actually light up the world like a field full of fireflies is to teach others how to carry and expand the light too.
And that's why this certification exists.
We've now graduated over 40 Certified Joy Facilitators™. This work has been brought into schools, companies, and organizations such as Lululemon, ATB Financial, Fairmont Hotels, Saje Wellness, NAIT, The Stollery Children's Foundation, Royal Alexandra Hospital, and Google, to name a few. Facilitators are speaking, facilitating, and literally lighting it up together.
And the field of fireflies keeps growing.
You could be next...
I'm not here to be the answer to anything. I am here to give you the structure, the tools, and the lived experience I have gathered — so that you can share your wisdom and your gifts with the world with more ease, more flow, and more Joy.
Not because something is missing in you. But because the world needs more people leading from the inside out. And you might just be one of them.
If you feel the call, I invite you to apply below.
With Joy,
Xo Jillian
Founder & Lead Educator The Academy of Joyful Living, Creator of The Joy Method™ and Author of The Daily Joy Journal™
The truth is, you don't need more information
You already know a lot. You've likely done the inner work, read the books, taken the courses. You've felt the shift yourself and you've probably already been holding space for others in some way, formally or not.
What you're looking for is one of two things...
Maybe you need a structured, embodied framework that gives your wisdom shape. Something that makes you feel confident walking into any room and guiding real transformation. A methodology that is proven, practical, and completely yours to teach.
Or maybe you already have the structure and what you want is to bring more depth, more embodiment, more Joy into the work you're already doing. To add a layer of humanity and presence that changes everything it touches.
For some, this is about finally stepping into the version of themselves they have been circling for years. For others, it is about expanding and deepening work they are already doing.
For many, it's both. Either way, that is exactly what this program gives you.
What You'll Learn
 The Joy Method
The Joy Method™ is the foundation of this work.
Learn the 7-step process for emotional awareness, alignment, and intentional living and how to guide individuals and groups through it with clarity and confidence.
It’s not just something you learn. It’s something you live.
It’s a way of:
• Leading
• Facilitating
• Relating
• Experiencing your life
And it comes to life through something powerful...
The Joy Sessions
Where The Work Comes to Life
Joy Sessions™ are guided experiences designed to create real shifts in how people feel, think, and show up.
They’re not lectures.
They’re not surface-level conversations.
They are experiences that support how people feel, live, work and relate.Â
This is how The Joy Method™ is shared in the real world.
And inside this certification, you’ll learn how to lead them.
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Facilitation, Coaching & SpeakingÂ
Build confidence in:
• Facilitating transformation
• Leading groups
• Holding brave space
• Guiding meaningful experiences
• Speaking in a way that moves people
You’ll also craft and practice your own Joy Session-style talk,Â
designed to inspire and connect with any audience.
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Tools That Create Real Change
Receive practical training in:
• Joy Session Style MeditationÂ
• Mindfulness
• Positive psychology
• Law of Attraction
• Embodied Leadership
• Joyful Branding & Marketing
Feel confident knowing that you’re not just facilitating,
you’re guiding real transformation that you have experienced personally.
The Container
• 6 months of live weekly classes
• guided practices + integration
• mentorship + support
•  real-life application
• And, a lifetime of JOY! (obvs)
This isn’t just a program. It’s a space where:
• you're seen, supported, and challenged
• you grow alongside others who are also choosing expansion
• you’re held through both the breakthroughs and the resistance
You're not doing this alone.
And that matters more than you think. Because transformation doesn't happen in isolation. It happens in connection, in community, in being seen by people who speak the same language and are choosing the same expansion.
You'll have a community of Joy Leaders cheering you on, holding you accountable, and growing alongside you every step of the way.
What You'll Be Able To Do
Most programs give you information.
This gives you embodiment, structure, support and real-life application.
As a Certified Joy Facilitator, you'll be able to:
• Lead Joy Sessions™, workshops, and retreats
• Facilitate 1:1 and group experiences
• Bring this work into organizations and teams
• Create aligned, meaningful offerings
This work has been brought into organizations like Lululemon, SAJE Wellness, Fairmont Hotels, ATB Financial, and Google.
And what's clear every single time is this: when Joy becomes part of how people live and lead, everything changes.
You could be the one who brings that into the next room.
Honest Talk
This work can absolutely become part of how you generate income. You will have everything you need to begin facilitating within the first 3 months.Â
Many facilitators go on to integrate it into their offerings, businesses, and communities and begin earning income right away.Â
And… this is not a “get rich quick” program.
This is a body of work you embody, integrate, and build with over time.
For some, that translates into income quickly. For others, it unfolds more gradually.
What everyone gains is:
• a deeper sense of alignment
• confidence in themselves and their voice
• tools that impact both their personal life and relationships
• the ability to support others in meaningful ways
You will receive all of the training, resources, and ready-to-use templates you need to confidently bring this work into your own life, work and community.Â
The possibilities are expansive, and the results are limitless and the return of Joy is priceless...
What Our Graduates Are SayingÂ
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"You owe it to yourself!"
This program raised my vibrational frequency and helped me live a joy filled life. It lit me up and gave me the ability to teach it to others.
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Karla R. | @karlaricewellnessÂ
"Best damn decision!"
I finally have structure and clarity with the freedom to be myself. The program gave me a foundation for offerings that bring me joy and ease.
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Lauren T. |Â @laurenaletheia
"Transformative and incredible!"
I learned and integrated The Joy Method™, and I now embody joy as a daily practice. The work pays forward in my life and with my clients.
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Alissa R. | @healtogrowparenting
What You Walk Away WithÂ
• Certification as a Joy Facilitator™
• 6 done-for-you Joy Sessions™
• Facilitation guides, slides, meditations, and workbooks
• Facilitator Development
• A complete framework to create your own sessions
• Joyful Brand & Marketing Support
• Practical tools for real-life transformation
• The Daily Joy Journal™ Retail Partnership Opportunities
• Online Joy Facilitator Directory
• A supportive, heart-led community
• Ongoing mentorship and guidance
AND Joy Sessions™ Workshop Support Including
Done-For-You Meditation Scripts
Workbooks + Slide Deck Templates
Marketing Promo Templates
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This Is Not Just A Certification
You don’t just gain tools, you become someone who:
• Leads with presence and confidence
• Creates life-changing opportunities
• Guides others through real transformation
• Supports the highest alignment of others
• Creates meaningful opportunities from a place of alignment
• Lives what they teach
Our grads consistently experience stronger relationships, more confidence and clarity, a greater sense of inner steadiness, and more fulfilment in their life and work.
Through this program, Joy becomes part of how you live, lead, and show up in the world. Not just something you teach. Something you are.
"Jillian is a guiding light – I knew her framework would help me support others in discovering their JOY!"
At first, the investment felt big, but I knew this work was needed in the world and that people would see its value. It’s already paying itself back in ways I couldn’t have imagined. You show up as you are and leave feeling lighter, inspired, and ready to share Joy wherever you go.
Melanie| @melaniebendiaf
Before we dive into pricing, I understand this is a meaningful investment. And I invite you to hold it with that weight, not dismiss it and not fear it.
What you are investing in is not a just a course. It is a complete, proven body of work that you can carry, teach, and earn from for the rest of your career. Most of our facilitators begin making back their investment within the first three months of the program before they've even graduated.
This is a business decision as much as it is a personal one. For many facilitators, this investment is a fully tax-deductible business expense. Check with your accountant to confirm if this applies to you.
InvestmentÂ
The Joy Facilitator
Certification
One Payment
$9996
*Best Value
12 monthly payments
$833
$1000 Deposit
18 monthly payments
$555
$1000 Deposit
Interested but want more information? Book a Discovery Call.
Photography & Branding Add-Ons
When you join the Joy Facilitator Certification, you can add a professional photo session or brand design package at a reduced facilitator rate to help you show up confidently and share your work with the world.
Learn MoreMeet some people who said yes before you.
These are real Certified Joy Facilitators™ – Coaches & wellness practitioners, corporate leaders, retreat owners, HR professionals, caregivers & healers, grief guides, nurses, therapists, creatives, and purpose-driven humans from every background imaginable. They felt the same pull you are feeling right now. Here is what they built with it...
Jodi Bendrien Costa Rica & Worldwide — Grief, Joy & Retreat Facilitator Grief Literacy & Joy · Retreat Facilitation · Leadership & Team Culture
After unimaginable loss, Jodi chose to turn her pain into purpose. As the owner of Soulara Hotel and Retreats in Costa Rica and a corporate leader, she brings The Joy Method™ into two of the most unexpected and needed spaces, grief work and organizational leadership.
"Grief asks us to face what's been lost. Joy reminds us what's still here. When we let them coexist, they don't cancel each other out — they complete the picture."
"I feel more confident as a leader than I ever have before. Using the Joy Method has allowed me to connect with my staff on a more human level — and it has changed my relationships with everyone around me."
Kim Newsted Lloydminster, AB/SK — Retreat Host & Joy Facilitator Women's Retreats & Events · 1:1 & Group Coaching · Reiki & Sound Healing
Founder of Power of Pink by Kim, Kim hosts transformational retreats and gatherings for women who have lost their sparkle somewhere along the way. As a Reiki Master and sound healing practitioner, she creates sacred spaces where women feel seen, heard, and deeply loved — and leave lit up.
"As someone who spent years pouring love and light into other women, this program reminded me to fill my own cup first — and gave me the tools, the sisterhood, and the soul-nourishment to do exactly that."
Kim Yellowknee Edmonton & Nation to Nation — Nehiyaw Joy Facilitator Healing & Resilience · Indigenous Energy Work · Breathwork & Meditation
A proud nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman), Kim brings The Joy Method™ into healing spaces alongside breathwork, meditation, and Indigenous energy work. Her journey from self-abandonment to reclaiming her power is not background — it is the medicine itself.
"I am not teaching theory. I am the transformation."
"Finding joy in the smallest moments — that is the part that surprised me most."
Rebecca Asquith Prince George, BC — Joy-Led Business & Leadership Joy-Led Leadership & Business · Nervous System Regulation · Retreat Facilitation
A sales and marketing leader opening a Guest House, Glamping and Nordic Spa in Northern BC, Rebecca is weaving Joy Sessions into a full experiential wellness offering. Her MBA background meets her soul work — and she brings both into everything she creates.
"The Joy Method gave me language and awareness around patterns I had been operating from for years — and reconnected me with parts of myself I had lost while constantly doing."
Nicole Toren Nature-Connected Joy Facilitator Nature & Energy Awareness · Everyday Joy Practice · Instinctive Living
Nicole brings The Joy Method™ into work rooted in nature connection, energy awareness, and helping people reconnect with their instinctive self. Her approach is grounded, practical, and quietly profound — less about chasing transformation and more about paying attention to what is already here.
"Joy has become less about chasing big moments and more about how I show up in everyday life. The practices are simple but meaningful — and they create a ripple effect in how you show up for your life and the people around you."
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Jodi Davey St. Albert, AB — HR Leader & Joy Facilitator, Workplace Pressure · Dementia & Alzheimer's Families · Midlife & Menopause
A DiSC-certified facilitator with deep roots in HR and leadership, Jodi brings The Joy Method™ into some of the most human and often overlooked spaces — workplaces under pressure, families navigating dementia, and women moving through midlife transitions. Her gift is helping people feel seen in the middle of real life.
"This program hasn't just taught me a method. It has changed the way I move through the world."
If you're on the fence...
That's okay! Most of the people you just read about were too.
The things that matter most are often the ones we circle the longest. Trust your intuition and here are some words of encouragement if you need them...
"If you're feeling the pull, that's not a coincidence — that's your soul knowing. Say yes. You'll thank yourself later." — Kim Newsted, Certified Joy Facilitator™
"If not now, when?" — Cheryl Foster, Certified Joy Facilitator™
"I'm thankful I took the leap — it helped me in so many ways." — Kim Yellowknee, Certified Joy Facilitator™
Join The Next Intake
Program Details
Our next cohort begins June 23rd, 2026. Doors close on June 17th.
This is the last intake of this year.
Join me as we light up the world like a field full of fireflies!
I began The Joy Sessions™ in 2018 by combining my education, the wisdom of many teachers, and a lifetime of lived experience to create this one-of-a-kind facilitation program rooted in Joy.
Through The Joy Sessions™ and The Joy Method™, I’ve built a thriving business and a deeply aligned life. It has been my honour to support countless clients, companies and communities in deliberately designing lives filled with purpose and Joy.
From the very beginning, I held a vision of lighting up the world like a field full of fireflies. That vision has become the heartbeat of this certification.  A movement of next-level Joy Leaders guiding transformation in their lives, businesses, and communities.
I would love for you to be part of this if you feel the call.
Not because you need fixing or because something is missing. But because the world needs more people leading from Joy. And you might just be one of them.
Here's to lighting up the world from the inside out, together.
With Joy,
Xo Jillian
Founder and Lead Educator, The Academy of Joyful Living, Creator of The Joy Method™ and Author of The Daily Joy Journal™
Apply Now
Program Details
Doors Close June 17th
We start on Tuesday, June 23rd, 12-2pm MT
*Sessions are weekly online.Â
Certification Requirements
- Must attend a minimum of 80% of the classes
- If you miss a live class, you must email 3 takeaways you learned from the recorded trainingÂ
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Complete weekly integration assignments (about one hour per week)
- Â Monthly practicum assignments, including:
- Guided Meditation Recording
- Joy Method™ Presentation
- Signature Joy Session Practicum Presentation
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Scroll down to complete an application form to start the application process.Â
This certification is for those ready to integrate Joy into their life, work, and leadership, and invest their time and energy fully in the process.
If you’re new to my work, listen to The Joy Journey Podcast to get a feel for the energy and teachings behind this program.
I bring a mix of warmth, honesty and grounded accountability to everything I do.Â
The experience is designed for immediate integration, with tools and practices you can apply right away.
I can’t wait to see what unfolds for you!
If you're feeling the call, this is where you answer it.
Please read through the questions and complete the application below.Â
Once you submit your application:
• Our team will review it within 2 business days
• If accepted, you’ll receive full details and next steps
Every person who applies is reviewed with care. Please answer as honestly and fully as possible. We want this to be as aligned for you as it is for us!
