JOY Fund for Healing Arts

Supporting healing artists, somatic practitioners, and community care workers building accessible, decolonized wellness spaces around the world.

Born in Berlin and reaching worldwide, the JOY Fund backs the people already doing the work of care: sound healers, breathwork facilitators, somatic practitioners, therapists, and community organizers creating trauma-informed spaces where healing is accessible, culturally grounded, and led by community rather than industry. The fund grows from JOY Collective, a Berlin healing collective of 50+ practitioners whose work spans free community support circles, ancestral and indigenous healing traditions, and land-based retreat spaces from Senegal to the Philippines, all guided by one conviction: wellness should be decolonized, rooted in dignity, and within everyone's reach.

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Eligibility

We welcome healing artists, somatic practitioners, therapists, holistic facilitators, cultural workers, and community organizers anywhere in the world. You don't need clinical credentials; you need ethical practice, community accountability, and a commitment to making healing spaces safer, more inclusive, and financially accessible.
To qualify for this fund:
- Your project should advance healing arts, regeneration, or collective care: workshops, somatic and embodiment practices, peer-support circles, grief and trauma rituals, ancestral healing traditions, community gatherings, storytelling, digital resources, or land-based healing and retreat spaces
- Projects must be trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and accessible, rooted in community care rather than individualistic or clinical-only approaches
- We prioritize work led by, or created in close collaboration with, people with lived experience of migration, displacement, racialization, or exclusion
- Projects serving displaced and marginalized communities, in Berlin and beyond, hold a special place in this fund's heart

Projects (16)

16 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
TUNER	submitted	$87,139
The Palestine Music Space	submitted	$106,832
Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop	submitted	$1,522
Reset and Rise	submitted	$0
Akuya	submitted	$234
Nadharia	submitted	$975
WEAR(E)MOTION	submitted	$1,259
The new album Peace Of Mind by Marie Chain	submitted	$41,998
Rainbow Spider	submitted	$111,620
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
the Living culture Project	submitted	$49,595
Ahmed Eid	submitted	$13,375
The Living Canvas Salon	submitted	$8,262
TRUST: Society Shifts When Women Trust Themselves	submitted	$1,867
Resonance Tunes — Trauma-Informed AI for Creating Coherence	submitted	$1,271
The Power of Vulnerability	submitted	$2,090