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One-Time Live Event · Sunday, March 29

When Feeling Good
Is a Threat
to Power

A live, online convening for women and femme-presenting people committed to truth, liberation, and building joy as a lived, strategic practice.

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Sunday, March 29
10:00 AM CST
Live Online
3 Hours · 6 Speakers
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Tickets from $27  ·  Replay Included

Hear directly from Dr. Arelia Johnson
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Joy is not a luxury.
It is a strategy for sustaining the work.

— Dr. Arelia Johnson

Is This For You?

You're still showing up.
But you're running on empty.

You lead, support, and hold space for others. You do work that matters — in classrooms, organizations, communities, systems. And right now, that work is heavier than it's ever been. This event was created for that exact moment.

This is for you if
  • You lead, organize, educate, or support others in demanding environments
  • You're navigating equity, community, or systems work
  • You want a framework to move through the weight, not just under it
  • You value depth, reflection, and tools you can use the next day
  • You want real conversation — not another motivational webinar
  • You're ready to treat joy as something strategic, not frivolous
This is not for you if
  • You want quick motivation without substance
  • You prefer passive content with no engagement
  • You're not open to reflection or harder questions
  • You want surface-level inspiration without strategy
What You'll Walk Away With

This isn't content you consume.
It's work you leave with.

01

Strategic Clarity

How joy, language, and imagination function as strategic tools — not just emotional states.

02

Practical Frameworks

Tools for navigating complex personal, professional, and systemic environments you can use the next day.

03

Language to Name It

Words to articulate what you're experiencing — because naming it is the first step to moving through it.

04

Renewed Agency

A reset on how you show up — at work, in community, in your life. Not a pep talk. An actual shift.

05

A Worksheet to Keep

Designed to continue the work long after the event ends — not just ideas you heard once.

06

Real Community

Three hours alongside women and femme-presenting leaders navigating the exact same weight you carry.

Sunday is in 2 days.
Don't let it pass you by.

Seats are going fast. Tickets start at $27.

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How It Works

This is not a webinar.

You won't sit and scroll while someone talks at you. You'll reflect, write, and engage with ideas in real time — alongside six practitioners who don't just talk about this work. They do it.

3Hours Live
6Real Speakers
Reflect & Write
1Framework Home

Designed for integration, not just consumption. Most events fill you with information you never use. This one is built so the work happens in the room — and keeps going after you leave.

Who You'll Learn From

People doing the work —
not just talking about it.

Dr. Arelia Johnson
Founder · Joy Is Strategy

Dr. Arelia Johnson

Criminologist · Playwright · Author · Change Architect

  • Architect of Harris County's first Office of Human and Civil Rights
  • National thought leader on distributive justice and equity-centered leadership
  • Author of Hijacking Equity & the Fight for Justice
  • Has trained thousands to translate conviction into everyday practice
  • Focused on moving people from survival into intentional, whole living
Supporting Speakers
LaKeidru Blaylock

LaKeidru Blaylock

Family Well-Being & Prevention

Leader in family well-being, prevention, and community systems transformation.

Dr. Anita Wadhwa

Dr. Anita Wadhwa

Restorative Justice · Education

Restorative justice practitioner and educator working inside real school and community systems.

Cecilia Olusola Tribble

Cecilia Olusola Tribble

Cultural & Racial Equity

Equity strategist working at the intersection of culture, race, and government systems.

Dr. Shantaé Motley-Hodges

Dr. Shantaé Motley-Hodges

Prevention Science

Prevention scientist focused on transforming systems from the inside out.

Fatima Bunafoor

Fatima Bunafoor

Global Equity Leadership

Equity leader working across global and institutional contexts to advance justice.

Claire Miller

Claire Miller

Leadership & Local Government

Leadership strategist with deep experience in local government and civic transformation.

Choose Your Experience

Three ways in.
One Sunday that changes things.

⚡ Registration Closes Saturday Night · This Sunday, March 29 · 10AM CST · This event will not be repeated

Truthteller
$27

I'm ready to show up live.

  • Live access to the full 3-hour experience
  • Joy Is Strategy worksheet
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Strategist
$67

I want to keep the conversation going.

  • Everything in Truthteller
  • Full replay access — revisit what landed hardest
  • Language Matters digital course included
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Liberator
$107

I want the full framework.

  • Everything in Strategist
  • Signed copy of Hijacking Equity & the Fight for Justice
  • A long-term reference you'll return to again and again
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The first 20 tickets are free. Because access shouldn't be a barrier to this conversation. Remaining tickets are intentionally priced to stay accessible to the communities this work serves.

Hijacking Equity book

The book behind the movement

Hijacking Equity & the Fight for Justice is a field guide for truth-tellers and freedom-builders. Dr. Johnson exposes how language has been weaponized — and charts a new path forward through Distributive Justice.

Liberator ticket holders receive a signed copy — a long-term reference, not a one-time read.

Signed Copy · Liberator Tier · $107
Don't Miss This

Sunday comes
whether you register or not.

Three hours. Six real voices. A framework built for the exact moment we're in. This is the space most people aren't giving themselves right now — and it might be exactly what you need.

Sunday, March 29
10:00 AM CST
From $27
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