UP-lift Children, youth & Young adults (aka – UP4JOY)

UP4JOY is the name for our many tailored branches to supporting young people. Each of these are co-created with thousands of our beneficiaries over 2 decades, ensuring our joy sessions are for all young people.

This includes specific sessions for ECD, Youth and Young Adults. As an overview – here’s how our – joy works:

JOY 4 Children – ECD – Early Childhood Development

The UP has been running Outreach Joy sessions at ECD centers since 2020, offering young children the opportunity to release energy, play, resolve emotions, and learn coping skills. We have collaborated with MasiCorp in Cape Town, running rewarding sessions that both children and teachers loved. Through these sessions, we create a joyful and supportive environment for the development of young minds.

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What people say…

We have had such positive responses from the teachers. The teachers love the program, it brings relaxation to our minds. We become uplifted, it makes us fresh and ready to tackle the world. We also believe this music is helping the children in gross motor development as well as creative development. After l<aren’s sessions the children have tended to be more attentive and even attentive to the different tones of teachers. Although they are excited after sessions, they always sleep peacefully and they are collected.

Chasmay Educare, Masicorp, 2021

JOY 4 Youth & Young Adults

UP conducts numerous outreach joy sessions at youth centers, schools, and children’s homes. We tailor each session to the specific group and provide JOY tools to help participants manage difficult emotions, develop empathy and cultivate joy in their own lives. Through these interventions, we empower young individuals to to face up to their limitations and live their best lives. Now we also have UP4JOY – the all win together – transformation game, see below for more.

UP4JOY – the transformation game – (& new TV SHOW in development)

This Transformation Game, 8 week experience has already effected so many lives. Pilot program ran in 2022 in The Overberg with 12 young adults playing, as this game still shows merit for community engagement, bridging with stakeholders and outreach – and identifying future “joy facilitators”.

UP4JOY was co-created by young people, for young people – to inspire each other to take care of themselves, each other and their communities

– see TV show – treatment CLICK here.

In 2022 this extraordinary 8 week transformation change game supported 9 young people to take on living their best lives, and 6 of the 9 graduates have been trained UP as joy facilitators to lead the game going forward.

This program (with appropriate financial partners is set to roll out into 2 new regions, and since we simultaneously tailored this power game into a pilot of a new impact reality – television programme “UP4JOY – all Win together” – developed over the past few years and piloted in The Overberg region of South Africa. We are seeking out financial partners who wish to be part of our SCALE UP of JOY – inspiring this generation to all rise UP together and lovingly co-create the thriving South Africa (and world) of our dreams.

Tailored Sessions

We tailor JOY sessions in person and online for children from previously disadvantaged communities.

Our Joy Sessions are:

About 45 minutes long
Guided by our professionally trained Joy Catalysts (facilitators of joy)
Tailored to the predominant age and culture
Designed to leave the children and/ or youth emotionally uplifted, enthused and inspired!

Why we do this

Emotional and Mental Wellness is paramount to all humankind’s ability to be active citizens and their own abilities to be resourceful, creative and even innovative. It is our passion with The UP, to ensure all children receive access to these inspired joy sessions.

Our beneficiaries

Our sessions are brought to Children’s Homes, Schools, Special Needs / Differently Abled homes and even partnered NPO’s community organisations.

If you’re part of a previously disadvantaged school and you would like your school to experience a session like this, please submit your request below. (For affluent schools, please go to secretsunrise.com)

School Joy Training

Powerful 1-3 hour JOY Training sessions for children aged 12 and UP – these sessions equip the youth to become the source of JOY. Plus sessions for teachers too. Living joyfully, in an UPlifted state of of being – is a skill we have been passionately teaching since 2005.

Our sessions are tailor-made for all ages and support the learners / teachers to choose to be mindful, compassionate, empathic and as we put it; “practice being both human and KIND, no matter what the world gives us.”

For more information on how the children in your school can learn these joy tools – please contact us.