The Joy Farmers' History
Welcome to "the Joy Farmers' History," where we explore the roots and reasons for using The Joy Farmers' presentation as a transformative practice for the youth. The Joy Farmers draw a unique parallel between what a farm needs to grow healthy crops to what all humans need to cultivate individual internal joy. This proactive approach sets the foundation for a lifetime of self-awareness growth and reasons for positive resiliency. Knowing how to grow our individual inner joy is a useful, life-long skill anyone can use.
Tonya Gladstone- Founder and First Joy Farmer
Tonya Gladstone's journey to becoming the first official "Joy Farmer" is rooted in heart, experience, need, and imagination. Learning from other teachers and masters how to feel joy again following years of pain, she recognized the value in cultivating self-awareness. After growing herself, she was inspired to help her own teens because of what they were dealing with. Then, she reflected on the people she worked with the last 25 years in public education- the last ten teaching in high schools. Most importantly, over those years, she LISTENED to the youth when they told her how they felt, in and out of her own classroom. Imagination took hold- Students must be entertained and engaged to learn anything! Something more took hold of her spirit- she can simplify and share what has helped her and her own kids to help others too!! These events led to the birth of The Joy Farmers... After all, what we focus on grows.....
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Thank you for showing and viewing the world in a different perspective. This has shown me a new way of going about my inner joy ,thank you !