Joy Gilfilen – Founder of Civic Joy Academy
Joy Gilfilen is a philosopher and civic systems coach of intentional change. She has researched, published, written and produced her own materials in the form of books, trainings, podcasts, and various other educational materials. These trainings and courses will be offered in 2022!
Joy has three Intentional Change Philosophies: 1) Science of Intentional BioEnergetics (Building your personal emotional horsepower) 2) Biology of Influence How you can make a difference). 3) Physics of Civics (How we can change our systems to get better results for the people).
Her revitalizing influence has been felt in industries such as scientific leadership, functional medicine, civic renewal, international business, entrepreneurial leadership, non-profit education, and justice. All of which have impacted and ultimately transformed into vital, progressive innovations for the benefit of the whole. Watch for announcements coming soon!
Civic Conversations: Joy Gilfilen – Host of JoyTalk and iChangeJustice
Joy is a public voice in civic leadership having open conversations with elected officials, business people, non-profits, activists and entrepreneurs who are actively turning real world problems into opportunities to transform how we do business in the world productively.
Human Potential Videos (before political activism)
Volunteer Research – As President of the Restorative Community Coalition
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As President of the Restorative Community Coalition for 10 years, Joy did a deep dive into why our economy is not working. She discovered that the criminal justice system was causing complex trauma in families, neighborhoods, and then spilling out into the business, tax and court systems across the community. Joy then discovered that it has led to poverty, homelessness, mental illness and trouble in courts, jails and non-profits. Joy decided to use her skills to reverse the trends.
- By running for county executive and county sheriff, Joy led a community movement that successfully defeated a county jail-building-tax-initiative in 2015 – and another county jail-building-tax-initiative in 2017. Joy’s book Noble Cause Corruption led a sitting county executive to be found guilty of a campaign law violation, fined personally, and put on probation for five years by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission. She is also the author of Stop Punishing Taxpayers: Start Rebuilding Community and the ethnographic study Blind Spots: Unexpected Findings from Jail Trauma Research and the Whatcom County Jail Trauma Chart.
- As a civic innovator, Joy is known for making invisible issues visible, transforming hard-to-talk about issues into community-wide dialogues, and championing and implementing practical solutions that save tax payers money. By partnering with other community leaders, Joy builds pathways that support people with conviction histories in navigating their re-entry into the workforce and civil society, while honoring inclusive governance, and promoting public safety. Her methods build community trust, produce new leadership and economic vitality inside the civic heart.
- Prior to her jail reform work, Joy served as a legislative secretary for three state representatives in Olympia, Washington; led more than 35 business leaders in designing and implementing an urban renewal campaign that transformed a neglected historic district into a tourist destination and community hub that honors locally owned businesses; and coached 45 executives in bringing in upwards of 3.5 million dollars in annual sales in the wholistic health-care market in America’s pre-internet economy.
- Joy’s research is being been produced through webinars, in articles, online and in DVD media such as Flipping the Joy Switch: Introducing the Joy Triangle Model, and ChoicePoint: Uniting Creatives with Love and Vitality. Joy’s latest article, Quantum Leadership Using the Natural Change Model was published as a co-author, in Cracking the Rich Code (2020), an Amazon #1 Best Seller (Nationally and Internationally).
