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It happens in every kind of family, no matter what we’d like to believe. Girls and boys are sexually abused by adults in their households. Women and men are battered by their spouses. Even if our homes are loving and safe, many of us have experienced violence and trauma in settings too numerous to list. To begin to heal, we must create space for people to tell their stories—and we must listen without turning away.
Healing niggun set to the melody of a traditional Ukrainian lullaby
“there is a space between / flags and fireworks”
“We are commanded not to harm ourselves, because for some of us that is a struggle.”
Prayer is for anyone re-entering life after rehab, whether for addiction, an eating disorder, psychiatric hospitalization, or another form of inpatient treatment
“I have one of you next to me, at any time and step, sisters”
“From the makor ha’hayim – the Source of All Life – we draw forth these blessings”
Poem by Israeli peace activist on war with Gaza
“Please give me the strength to care for this parent in their suffering”
“there are ones / who loved us / before we were us”
Finding joy in physical pleasure
In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.
Four sessions, starting June 15th
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