Facilitation Training for Joy Leaders
Become the facilitator people refer, request, and open doors for.
Enhance your public speaking, games repertoire, and experience design through live reps, feedback, and peer to peer learning. In a giant mansion.
4.8from 49+ reviews·5camps sold out
Get the skills free. Apply if it clicks.
NOV 19 to 22, 2026 · CAPACITY 18
Real Reviews
What alumni actually say about camp without a script
"Spending just one weekend with joymakers shifted my self-identity in lasting ways. everyone was so fun and socially aware! They made me feel welcome and safe."
"I've made some big changes, and those changes have been lasting. I have really been enjoying life a lot more fully. Thanks Jacques, and I want to attend another one soon."
Real Reviews
What alumni actually say about camp without a script
"Spending just one weekend with joymakers shifted my self-identity in lasting ways. everyone was so fun and socially aware! They made me feel welcome and safe."
"I've made some big changes, and those changes have been lasting. I have really been enjoying life a lot more fully. Thanks Jacques, and I want to attend another one soon."
What You'll Be Able To Do
Sharpen your group facilitation skills through live practice
Activate group energy
Know exactly which group activities to use, and how to lead them so people actually want to join in, to create more energy, play, and joy.
Facilitate real belonging
Use storytelling and public speaking to build a group culture people don’t want to leave because they feel like they belong every time they show up.
Lead unforgettable events
Turn flat gatherings into experiences where people put their phones away, open up, participate, and ask, “When are we doing this again?”
Practical skills you leave with
- Team building
- Public speaking
- Facilitating safety
- Energizing groups
Are You a Fit?
If you love facilitating joy & play, you belong at camp
You want to reach your leadership potential by mastering the rare skill most facilitators lack—elevating human energy & emotion.
You want to become a more captivating speaker without becoming louder, more performative, or less yourself.
You want participants to leave talking about the experience, return to future events, and recommend you.
You're ready to practice in front of peers, receive useful feedback, and refine your craft through repetition.
What Is Camp
The first Joymaking facilitation training where you practice with peers until it feels natural
An advanced three day container built exclusively for experienced group leaders. Master facilitating groups, community building, and public speaking through live practice & drills.
You'll live and train in a mansion alongside carefully selected facilitators here for the same reason: to become exceptional at bringing people to life.
Facilitation Intensive
+Real Practice Every Day
Facilitation Camp
Where?
Near Vancouver, BC
8 BR House
When?
Nov 19–22, 2026
Thu 6 pm to Sun 6 pm
Cost?
$1,200 USD
Double bed, tax incl.
Capacity
18 participants
Intentionally small
What's Included
Your own bed in 8BR mansion
Lake views, hot tub, big lawn, comfy beds, coffee machines—with room-tier upgrades available.
3 healthy meals per day
Three nourishing vegetarian meals each day, prepared together as part of mansion life.
Live feedback from facilitators
After leading the group or delivering your talk, you'll get constructive feedback from experienced facilitators.
8 hours of daily practice
Hands-on training, drills, and feedback from award-winning facilitators and Joymaker Professors
Experience real community 🫂Live, play, learn with a carefully selected group
📵 Unplug from distractionsNo phones allowed, except for 1 hr/day
Live a healthy routine 🧠Meditation, dance, healthy meals, movement
Skills & Curriculum
Practice the core leadership capabilities
behind facilitating play, energy, & safety
Facilitate Joy & Safety in Any Group
Learn facilitation tools and psychological safety games engineered to get any group laughing, vulnerable, and connected within minutes. Practice through live drills and peer feedback.
Get reps in:
Group FacilitationSpontaneous GamesReading the Room Dynamically
Create a Deep, Ongoing Community
Design communities people never want to leave. Build returning rituals, memorable traditions, community culture, and the social architecture that transforms strangers into chosen family.
Get reps in:
Container DesignReturning RitualsMember Retention & Loyalty
Speak Confidently & Entertain
Develop magnetic stage presence through repeated practice and coaching. Learn storytelling, delivery, audience engagement, and commanding leadership without sounding corporate or self help.
Get reps in:
Stage PresenceEmotional StorytellingMagnetic Delivery & Tone
EXAMPLE ACTIVITY
Joymaker Simulation
Sharpen your craft with a group you have to win over.
Opening experience: 15 minutes or less + feedback
You already facilitate joy. Now practice those crucial opening minutes when people are still in cliques, mildly distracted, and unsure about joining in. Test how you invite participation, introduce an activity, and respond to the group.
Make people want to join
Give a short enrollment talk. Explain what you are inviting people into and why it could be worthwhile. Practice making the invitation clear and appealing.
Lead your opening
Lead a short sequence that encourages connection, psychological safety, joy, or energy. Your peers act like realistically hesitant participants, rather than instantly enthusiastic Joymakers. They will not deliberately sabotage you.
Get feedback on your craft
Hear appreciative feedback on what worked and constructive feedback on what could improve. Examine your speaking, activity design, enrollment, clarity, confidence, and overall leadership.
Your opening can be tender, reflective, playful, energetic, or something entirely your own. Bring an approach you want to explore.
Find inspiration in the Vitalizer VitabaseHow It Works
Most training tells you what to do. Camp makes you do it.
Over three immersive days you repeatedly practice the social and leadership behaviours you'd normally hesitate to try — until they stop feeling risky.
- LearnA simple tool you can use immediately.
- PracticeUse it live, with real people, right away.
- FeedbackPeers and coaches tell you what landed.
- RepeatAdjust and run it again until it's yours.
Again & again for 3 days
- LearnA simple tool you can use immediately.
- PracticeUse it live, with real people, right away.
- FeedbackPeers and coaches tell you what landed.
- RepeatAdjust and run it again until it's yours.
Loop back to learn — all 3 days
Leadership is a practiced skill, not a theory.
You don't get confident initiating, speaking, connecting or leading by understanding it. You get confident by getting reps — with real people, in a room where it's safe to be bad at first.
Reps you'll actually get
- Reading a room and shifting its energy on the spot
- Framing an activity so it lands clearly
- Enrolling participation from a guarded group
- Speaking and storytelling to captivate people
You don't leave with ideas. You leave with evidence that you can do it.
Verified Google Reviews
What attendees actually say on Google
"I almost left within a couple hours because I wasn't as joyful as everyone else. So glad I didn't. Within the first 6 hours of arriving, I felt comfortable and like every part of me was welcome. I came out with a completely new direction in life. My marriage improved, I became much more present, I led my team better."
— Adam, CEO, British Columbia
"We had three days of education on joy: 1. Using physical and cognitive tools to be joyful whenever you choose to be, 2. Bringing joy and regulation to one-on-one conversations, 3. Facilitating group experiences full of meaningful connection."
— Sarah, Manager of Teams, Florida
"I didn't know a single person attending. I had never met Jacque. I was even traveling to a whole new country solo... What I learned about interpersonal joy, intrinsic joy, and taking social risks completely rewired how I show up in life."
— Desiree, Dentist Lead, North Carolina
"I'm a comedian and facilitator in Florida. I attended a joymaker camp in Phoenix Arizona and absolutely loved it. I'll definitely be going back for more. At first I was a little nervous because I didn't know anyone going into it. I left feeling more empowered and ready to spread joy at my events and in my day-to-day life."
— Angela, Community Leader, Florida
Meet Your Instructor
Your instructor
Learn from the facilitator behind 1,000+ events, meetings, parties and keynotes
Jacques W. Martiquet has a decade of leading workshops, retreats & keynotes focused on joy and human connection. Known as The Party Scientist, he's been recognized for his trailblazing career in promoting healthier partying and disease prevention through joy.
20+ Conference Keynotes Delivered
1,000+ Events & Workshops Led
Hired by Fortune 500 Companies
100k+ Past Attendees Hosted
The Joy Mansion
A space designed for relaxation, sleep, and real training
Every corner of the mansion is set up to pull people together — the hot tub, mini trampolines and red light panels for recovery, and a firepit where the real conversations happen. You're living inside an environment engineered for play, connection and relaxation.
One house. Everyone under the same roof for three days.
The Joymaker Mission
We believe in a world where people can generate joy instead of consuming it.
Welcome to the 21st century.
We're glued to our phones, watching life instead of participating in it. We reach for social media, substances, and stuff to feel better—but the joy rarely lasts.
The hit fades. We want more. And the cycle begins again.
ConsumeFEEL HIGHCome downFEEL LOW
The world needs more Joymakers: people who help others shift from consumers of joy to creators of it.
- Passive consumption
- Scrolling through other people's lives
- Watching from the edge of the room
- Performing for likes, not for people
- Active joy creation
- Starting the moment everyone remembers
- Making people feel seen and safe
- Sharing joy so it multiplies
We Joymakers remind people that joy doesn’t have to be bought, swallowed, streamed, or scrolled for. We can generate it ourselves through human connection.
Joymakers believe that everyone has joy inside them—and that joy is medicine that multiplies when we share it.
At camp, you become a Joymaker.
Someone who knows how to bring people, groups, and rooms to life.
You don’t have to be funny, loud, or performative. You just have to be willing to go first.
- To make the invitation.
- To take the social risk.
- To start something.
And to elevate the people around you.
APPLY FOR CAMP
Start Your Application and See If You're a Fit
You'll book your complimentary Joy Boost with Jacques. He'll give you some tools from the curriculum and ask you some questions. No pressure to decide. Just a fun conversation with the creator of Joymaking.
⭐ 4.8/5 · 49+ reviews🫂 5 camps sold out
Excerpts from Verified Google Reviews
"Absolutely loved it. I'll definitely be going back for more."
— Angela, Florida "Sensible, research-backed, and delivered with humility and empathy."
— Rob, British Columbia "The whole experience was ridiculously fun AND more eye opening than I imagined."
— Sara, Florida "Pages of practical tools that helped me rise to the next level."
— Stephanie, Alberta "One of the best immersive programs I've ever done."
— David, Texas "A space that always emphasized consent, respect, and openness."
— Navid, Vancouver
Program FAQ
Before you apply
Facilitation Camp is for people who already lead groups and want deliberate practice, not introductory instruction. You should have meaningful experience facilitating workshops, meetings, retreats, communities, classes, or similar experiences and want more range, precision, and live feedback.
No. If you already have meaningful experience leading workshops, meetings, retreats, communities, classes, or other groups, you can apply directly to Facilitation Camp. Previous Joymaker Camp attendance is not required.
Leadership Camp teaches the foundations of Joymaking through a structured curriculum. Facilitation Camp is an advanced practice arena where you repeatedly lead, get feedback, experiment with a different approach, and try again.
You practice reading and shifting group energy, creating psychological safety, inviting stronger participation, speaking with more presence, and turning strangers into a connected group. Then you lead, get feedback, adjust, and run another rep.
You leave with more options when participation is low, the energy drops, or something you try does not land. You practice how to read the room, adjust your approach, recover quickly, and create stronger participation without simply getting louder or pushing harder.
No. Everything is consent-based. You can participate, adapt, observe, or step out at any time. Facilitation Camp does not have a certificate attendance requirement.
No. Facilitation Camp is intentionally a practice intensive rather than a certification program. The value comes from leading, experimenting, getting feedback, adjusting, and trying again.
You book a free Joy Boost call with Jacques. You will look at how you currently lead groups, identify one high-leverage skill to develop, and determine whether Facilitation Camp looks worth your time and money. There is no pressure to enroll.
Facilitation Camp runs November 19 to 22, 2026 near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Arrive Thursday between 4 pm and 6 pm. Camp finishes Sunday at 6 pm. The group is limited to 18 participants.