WHAT IS THE RADJOY PRACTICE?
“You are doing the RadJoy Practice whenever you share your sorrow or gratitude for places that have fallen on hard times.”
The damaged place will regain meaning and beauty. And so will you.
No matter where we live, we find places we love that are broken or endangered.
It could be a river that’s polluted, a neighborhood smothered by a petrochemical plant, a site of violence or neglect, or the tree in your own backyard killed by insects.
Through the RadJoy Practice, you bring beauty to wounded places and rediscover your enduring connection with the places you love.
5 SUGGESTED STEPS TO PRACTICE
There are countless ways to do the RadJoy Practice! You can do it alone or with a group. You can do it spontaneously or plan weeks in advance. Only Steps 1 and 5 are essential. You make the experience your own by adding details that feel right for your community, your place, and your traditions.
You can do the RadJoy Practice every day in small, simple ways—by singing to a river, giving thanks for the food you eat, placing a flower over the body of an animal that’s died on the road, and pausing before a rundown, neglected place to discover how nature is trying go hard to survive.
When you do the RadJoy Practice, alone or with others, you move from:
- helplessness to empowerment
- ugliness to creativity
- isolation to connectedness
For more ideas about how to do the RadJoy Practice for a place you care about, read the Stories shared by other members. Trebbe Johnson’s book, 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty is filled with suggestions for making simple, meaningful art at a wide variety of places.
THE GLOBAL EARTH EXCHANGE
The Global Earth Exchange is a day each when when hundreds of people around the world go to damaged places to give them attention and acts of art and beauty. Our gifts are made of sticks, stones, sand, and other natural materials the place itself offers us.
Together, our stories, our energy, and our love of place brings new life and healing to our places and to each other.
This year the Global Earth Exchange is June 25th. Click for more details.