Joyworks

28/12/2025

Hey my joy bringers , joy seekers and creators !
Let’s call it in together 🎉💜For 2026, what’s the word you’re being guided toward—your anchor, prayer, or intention for the year ahead?

Write it below.👏
Activate it⭐️
Let’s manifest it together.

27/12/2025

In case you haven’t had a wee laugh today !

“The source of love is deep in us and we cao help others realize a lot of bappiness.
One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy."
THICH NHAT HANH

Much love sharon ###

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24/12/2025

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays dear ones💜⭐️💜🎉⭐️

The second sunset we’ve caught since being in Amsterdam, here with Paolo’s dear aunt and family.

I’m taking a moment to thank you for being here and supporting Joyworks — whether by attending events, booking programmes, liking or commenting on posts — and a huge thank-you to my amazing Joyworks support team: Karen, Ina, Nicola, and Giles.

It’s exciting to be stepping into a rebrand, with the new website launching soon!

I appreciate you all so much and feel more supported in my business than I ever have ! 💛

It’s been a roller-coaster of a year, my word for the year was ABUNDANCE and it was with oodles of opportunities, new connections, and partnerships — alongside a truly life-changing trip to Costa Rica.

Having our beautiful international Joy Academy has been incredibly special.

Hearing the life-changing transformations makes my heart sing, and I’m so glad we began our journey together in May. I do miss being with you all in the free public Joy Academy group that we closed, so I’ll be thinking about how I can serve more widely — watch this space.

Speaking at three wonderful summits was a dream — the Scottish Marketing Summit, Scottish Women’s Wellbeing Summit, and Scottish Pause Summit. Huge learning curves in different ways, and I’m deeply grateful for each opportunity and aim to speak more in 2026 .

Featured as a Best Hero in Best Magazine was the grandest surprise too!

I got to host three in-person and virtual events with corporate clients Virgin Money and Citi Bank!

Other highlights last year was with kicking off the year with staff Teambuilding with Perth Autism and the Joyworks for Self-compassion parent project with Reach Autism.

Especially excited to continue meaningful work with Rainbow Valley, Trauma-Informed Parenting, The Gupta App and Quarriers.

I’m grateful for it all — the challenges, the gifts, and all that is yet to come.

Here’s to being super kind to yourself, moment by moment. To expecting the good and celebrating it all — especially the small things. To keeping those close to us close, making new connections whenever we can, and asking for help when we need it.

Because you deserve it.

Here’s to an epic and blessed 2026

Much Love and thanks always
Sharon ###x💜

22/12/2025

Silence is where I get a lot of my joy !
Gift yourself, or someone running on empty, the medicine of stillness.

A half day to slow the nervous system,soothe your spirit and feel more you.
Quiet self reflection in a gorgeous, nurturing space.

No fixing.
No forcing.
Just breathing again.

Schedule in time next year for
Awareness.
Inner wisdom.
Compassion.
Joy.

Carefully designed to soothe, re-store and re-align.

Gift vouchers available.

Book via the website and get your early bird pricing until 1 January 2026

19/12/2025

What’s been one of your most joyous highlights of the year?

One of the highlights for Joyworks in 2025 was welcoming in the fabulous Karen McGrady Parker to the Joyworks team!

Brings me so much joy!

So as we wind down let me officially welcome Karen!

Her career spans senior roles in national organisations, including 16 years as Associate Director at Scottish Youth Theatre, where she led national programmes, trained and managed creative teams, and designed qualifications and CPD for teachers across Scotland. Her work consistently centred on empowering people, amplifying unheard voices and using creative practice to build confidence and resilience.

With more than 25 years of experience working across the creative, community and cultural sectors, Karen McGrady Parker brings a wealth of artistic leadership, socially engaged practice and large-scale project expertise to the Joyworks! team. Her work bridges community storytelling, creative engagement, youth leadership and arts-based wellbeing, making her a natural fit for the Joyworks ethos and our Joyworks Method.

Everyone fell in love with her on our regular events the Gupta App, Quarrier’s fantastic Carer’s Celebration event at the Marriot Hotel, and at the culmination of the epic Rainbow Valley’s life-changing Seven Steps to Health retreat at Gleddoch House Hotel!

Joyworks in 2026 will be so much richer and fun with this talented lass on board!

Give her a big welcome.

So excited for 2026 together.

Let me know one of your highlights so we can celebrate you too! 🩷⭐️🎉☺️

17/12/2025

What you doing tomorrow Thursday 18th December at 2pm GMT ?

Take a wee half hour to laugh, breathe and reset with the loveliest Joy Academy Clan in our last holiday session of the year for free !

Promise you’ll feel uplifted an inspired and more you !

Come celebrate the end of the year ready to welcome in the good for 2026!

Email or DM for zoom link !

So love to have you on the joy bus !

Love sharon ###x

16/12/2025

💫 The Joy Academy by Joyworks

🎄FREE Holiday Party – Online

🎉Thursday 18th December

As the year winds down, you might be feeling like you’ve got the world on your shoulders, that everyone is doing better than you
or simply worn out.

If life feels too much just now, you’re not alone.

It’s a sign you need some fun!

A space to breathe and be yourself again.

The Joy Academy — our online Joyworks membership — is opening its doors for a FREE Holiday Party, and you’re warmly invited to join us.

This is a gentle, welcoming safe space to pause, connect and be together — no pressure, no expectations.

Just warmth, community and a right good laugh as we head into the festive season.

🕑 Thursday at 2pm-2.30pm online

What have you got to lose?

📧 DM or Email to receive your personal Zoom link sharon@joyworks.co.uk

Come exactly as you are!
Leave inspired and feel that you can take on the world -your way!
Perspective is everything.

Love to see you there any questions don’t hesitate to reach out 💜
Much love Sharon xx

15/12/2025

Get ahead of the game!
While everyone else is talking about how tough January feels imagine if you’ve got the support your people through it?

For HR leaders, People & Culture teams and managers, this time of year matters more than most.
Energy dips.
Morale wobbles.
Quiet cracking is real.

Blue Monday ‘the most depressing day of the year’ or the month of January for that matter doesn’t need another awareness post.
It needs action that actually helps.

At Joyworks, we partner with organisations to shift the atmosphere fast — bringing teams together through laughter, connection and practical wellbeing tools that stick.

Because mood is contagious.
When people laugh together, trust builds, energy rises and everything works better.

Joyworks is the kind of wellbeing investment that makes a difference.

So if you’re an HR or People leader looking for a wellbeing experience that’s:
✔ Very Very Good , not Vanilla
✔ Out of the box , not tick-box
✔ Flexible — in-person, virtual or multi-site

We’d love to help you make your people doing January back at work count.

📩 Drop me a message
📧 sharon@joyworks.co.uk
📞 +44 7713 033096
🌐 www.joyworks.co.uk

Joy works.
And your people deserve it — especially now

14/12/2025

Sunday Reminder- forget the noise, follow your bliss ! Looking forward to podcast tomorrow with the Big Soul Network tomorrow! Wishing you a beautiful week ahead dear ones

11/12/2025

What a wonderful group of incredible humans at Rainbow Valley’s Seven Steps to Health Retreat today! It was such an honour and a privilege to be with you all.

Huge congratulations to Angela, Kendal, and all the amazing volunteers for an absolutely phenomenal year! And from what I heard today… next year is going to be even more epic! 🎉🌈

If you’re not already, follow Rainbow Valley to hear more. And if you or someone you know has a cancer diagnosis, get in touch with them for a fully funded place on next year’s retreats or the Sleep Courses to become part of this beautiful family!

Thank you again for choosing Joyworks to culminate this retreat . A Rainbow Valley day is ALWAYS the best day of the week!🌈💕🙏

10/12/2025

ART OF PEBBLING FOR STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIPS

Have you heard of the modern trend of 'pebbling'—a love language where small, thoughtful gestures, like sending GIFs or memes, to let someone know they’re on your mind?

A dear friend sent me a quotation about it and how it made her think of my love Paolo and I.

Seems like we were ahead of the game!!

Seven years ago, at a dear friend’s wedding in London, we fell in love!

After a magical evening, when he came to Scotland he whisked me to sit on a wall at Kelvingrove Museum. Then, with a wee twinkle in his eye, he dropped a pebble in front of me.

When I asked why, he said, “That’s what penguins do—they mate for life.”

Little did I know that this gesture would be the start of our own love story, built on thoughtful acts of affection as after travelling the world together we navigated long times apart.

Because he is the King of pebbling our relationship has deepened despite the distance!

He’ll be home in seven days time returning from the states (it’s been a whole five months since we were together in the states and Costa Rica so that’s a lot of pebbling !)

Here are three ways you can 'pebble' for more love and joy - in last years’s joy insider click below.

This is our first selfie together over seven years ago! ❤️

Here’s to grandest pebbling for you and your love ones over this festive time! ⭐️🎄

09/12/2025

Feeling frazzled?

Revisit the science-backed tips we shared with the wonderful Kasia last year.

We are not running the one-day event that was last year.

Instead, join the Joy Academy membership for weekly live sessions with me and a warm international community.

Every week you get science backed practical tools you can use straight away to support calm, clarity and joy with the four pillar Joyworks method !

Hey and it’s off the noise of social media too!

Step into 2026 with support you can count on. See the feedback from our community below! We’ve got your joy and wellbeing covered !

Listen in with Sharon Miller Founder of Multi-Award Winning Joyworks and Neurobiologist Kasia Mccartney from The Neurohub! Let’s bring more calm and joy int...