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Workshop

Joy and Celebration

Learn practical steps to incorporate joy and celebration into your organising.

Act Build Change | 10 Jun 2025 | Online

An illustration of a hand holding a pump which is blowing up a balloon with the Act Build Change logo on the side. The background has a confetti style pattern using the Act Build Change logo shapes of triangles, squares and circles.

Joy is vital for community organising as it strengthens relationships, sustains organising, fosters healing, and serves as an act of resistance against oppressive systems. The roads to justice are often long and unpredictable. Creating opportunity for joy and celebration is an important part of building morale and momentum and organising sustainably.

In this training you will be introduced to practical ways you can incorporate joy in your organising and apply learnings to your context.

Outcomes

  • Gain a better understanding of the importance and role that joy plays in community organising and movements for justice. 
  • Be introduced to practical tools that could be incorporated into your community organising practise. 
  • Have an opportunity to reflect on your context and how you can incorporate more joy in your organising.

Meet the facilitators

Ezimma Chigbo is an associate senior collective care trainer at Act Build Change. Ezimma is also a writer, healer and creative facilitator with a background in youth work. She specialises in working with young women exploring issues such as healthy relationships, labels and identity and has worked mainly with young women involved in the criminal justice system.

Kennedy Walker is a trainer, coach and facilitator. They’ve helped individuals, groups and organisations move through conflict, build power, cultivate knowledge and strengthen skills for over ten years. They’ve trained with the Gestalt Centre in London, Navigate, Action Learning Associates and more in counselling skills, trauma informed facilitation, coaching, and mediation. They've co-founded organisations such as Kinfolk Network in 2017 and others that aim to strengthen collective care, learning and power. Kennedy holds a master's degree in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice and is currently a trainee counsellor.

Cost

  • Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) – email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket.
  • £15 for everyone else.

If you would like to become a Full Member (and get access to lots of other great events, trainings and more), visit our membership page to get started.

Access

This event will be held online using Zoom. The link will be shared with registered attendees before the start of the event.

To avoid difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address that you intend to use on Zoom.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your participation in this session. This includes, but is not limited to, language, comfort, and access (physical, emotional, technological) needs.