JOYMAKING TRAINING FOR LEADERS
Become the leader people remember, refer, and open doors for.
Practice the rare leadership skill of bringing rooms to life. Turn awkward groups into energized, connected ones without hesitating or feeling inauthentic.
4.8from 49+ reviews·5camps sold out
Get the skills free. Apply if it clicks.
NOV 5–8, 2026 · WAITLIST
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
Hear what a Joymaker training actually feels like
"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
Learn the 3 Joymaking Competencies & become one of the few
SELF ACTIVATION
Bring an energy that elevates people around you
Develop the mindset, vitality, and emotional steadiness that helps others feel more energized, open, and willing to participate.
RELATIONAL ACTIVATION
Help people feel safe to open up, play, and express
Adapt to the people around you, make them feel deeply seen, and create the trust that gets them playing, laughing, and engaging.
Group Activation
Transform groups into ones people don't want to leave
Know exactly what to do to get people off their phones, participating, connecting, opening up, and being themselves.
Practical skills you leave with
- Leading activities
- Public speaking
- Overcoming fear
- Authentic connecting
Are You a Fit?
If you love bringing people together, you belong at camp
You’re ready to practice the leadership skills that attract more opportunities, invitations, and meaningful relationships into your life.
You want to get people moving, playing, and laughing, but you hold back because you're not sure what to do.
You play it safe instead of raising the energy because you're afraid you'll make it awkward or nobody will join.
You feel it when a room goes flat and you want a better toolkit for getting people to drop their phones and masks.
What Is Camp
The first Joymaking certificate program that trains the rare skill of elevating human energy & emotion
A 3-day immersive personal growth retreat where you practice speaking, initiating, connecting, and leading with real people—until hesitation starts becoming action. You'll live and train in a mansion alongside carefully selected coaches, founders, and leaders here for the same reason: to become exceptional at bringing people to life.
Joy Leadership Training
+Live Practice Every Day
Joymaker Camp
When?
Nov 5–8, 2026
Thu 6 pm to Sun 6 pm
Where?
Near Vancouver, BC
Mega mansion in BC
TUITION?
$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.
Joymaking Certificate
Joymaker Camp issues the Joymaking Certificate after you complete camp and one Joymaking Mission.
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
Gain the frameworks & skills that most leaders ignore
Day 1
Develop the mindset and vitality that elevates others
Learn how to elevate your emotional state, overcome hesitation, and become the person who goes first.
You'll practice:
Self RegulationOvercoming HesitationCultivating Physical Energy
Day 2
Initiate conversations people actually enjoy & remember
Practice the relational and communication skills that help people lower their guard, open up, and feel genuinely seen.
You'll practice:
Active Constructive RespondingThe Art of AppreciationLeading with Vulnerability
Day 3
Make groups feel safe, focused, and alive
Read the room, intervene early, and move a flat group into curiosity, laughter, and real conversation. Not charisma. Repeatable skill.
You'll practice:
Generating Psychological SafetySpeaking with AuthorityLeading Group Activities
How 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
- Speaking up when all the attention is on you
- Initiating instead of waiting for someone else
- Bringing energy into a passive, quiet room
- Deepening a surface-level conversation
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.
APPLICATION
Start Your Application and See If You're a Fit
Get the 3 core Joymaking skills, then you'll book your complimentary Joy Boost with Jacques. He'll give you some tools from the curriculum and ask you a few questions.
⭐ 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
Leadership Camp is for people who regularly bring people together and want to get better at creating connection, participation, energy, and play. You might lead meetings, workshops, communities, retreats, dinners, classes, or other gatherings. The goal is to stop waiting for the room to come alive and learn how to help make it happen.
No. If you regularly lead meetings, workshops, communities, retreats, dinners, classes, or other groups, you already have somewhere to apply these skills. No professional facilitation experience or previous Joymaker Camp attendance is required.
Leadership Camp teaches the foundations of Joymaking through a structured curriculum in Self-Activation, Relational Activation, and Group Activation. Facilitation Camp assumes you already have meaningful experience leading groups and gives you more live reps, experimentation, and peer feedback.
You practice three levels of Joymaking. Self-Activation helps you bring energy, take social risks, and go first. Relational Activation helps you create stronger one-to-one connection. Group Activation helps you create psychological safety, invite participation, and shift the energy of an entire room.
You leave with practiced responses for moments that used to make you hesitate: starting connection, speaking up, inviting participation, going first, or shifting a flat room. Instead of relying on personality or inspiration, you have specific tools to reach for in meetings, dinners, workshops, and gatherings.
No. You can participate, adapt, observe, or step out of an activity at any time. If you want to earn the Joymaking Certificate, you must remain present to observe the required curriculum.
Complete Leadership Camp, remain present for the required curriculum, and complete one Joymaking Mission afterward. The mission gives you a chance to apply what you learned with real people in the real world.
You book a free Joy Boost call with Jacques. You will look at the groups you lead, identify one high-leverage skill to develop, and determine whether Leadership Camp looks worth your time and money. There is no pressure to enroll.
Leadership Camp runs November 5 to 8, 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.