Can We Talk? Navigating Challenging Conversations
Facilitator: Adva Chattler
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: conflict resolution
From a Jewish wisdom perspective, learn the practical skills needed to navigate difficult conversations
$118
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Spiritual Resilience in a Time of War: Inspired by Etty Hillesum
Facilitator: Hila Ratzabi
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: creative writing, Etty Hillesum, Memoir, spirituality
Read and discuss Etty Hillesum’s writings as a springboard for creating our own spiritual and writing practices. We’ll explore major themes in her work: creativity, prayer, meditation, love, suffering, acceptance, death, and freedom.
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Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
Facilitator: Sarah Chandler, Annabel Cohen and Éléonore Weill
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: Elul, spirituality
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
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Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading
Facilitator: Ritualwell
Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free
ZoomTopic: creative writing, Poetry, spirituality
Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish ritual innovators, poets and liturgists as we share new work from our third anthology!
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Climate Emotions and the Wisdom Our Bodies Carry
Facilitator: Ora Nitkin-Kaner
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic: climate change, climate crisis, climate emotion
Join us for a trauma-informed workshop to deepen our awareness of climate emotion and how they show up in our hearts and bodies. We will learn how our reactions to climate change may be shaped by our ancestors’ experiences, and expand our capacity for ease, connection, and action in this moment.
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Jewish Spiritual Autobiography
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: creative writing, expressive writing, Memoir, spirituality
Writing a spiritual autobiography helps you to discover how teachers, touchstones, symbols and stories have led you to make meaning and understand the sacred in your personal story. In this immersion, join Ritualwell’s Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, a writer and spiritual director, to map out and narrate your most meaningful life experiences.
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Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah
Facilitator: Rabbi Margie Jacobs
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: Art, creative writing, Kabbalah, spirituality
In this study of the Zohar, we'll explore the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing.
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Judaism Through The Kaleidoscope: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Facilitator: Daniel Raphael Silverstein
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: God, spirituality, texts
Join us explore the rich, beautiful writings of Rav Kook and use them as opportunities for spiritual practice, including creative writing and guided embodied exercises.
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Moses, A Stranger Among Us: A Conversation with Rabbi Maurice Harris
Facilitator: Maurice Harris
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic: Moses, Passover, Testament: the Story of Moses
Join Rabbi Maurice Harris, seen most recently on Netflix's new docudrama series, 'Testament: The Story of Moses' for a conversation about this complex prophet.
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This is My Jewish Heart
Facilitator: Corie Feiner
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic: Poetry, spirituality, Torah
Join us for this free event featuring a guided poetry writing exercise about the stories of our hearts and making our way from a narrow place of anxiety and pain towards inner and outer liberation.
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The Jewish Approach to Conflict Transformation
Facilitator: Rabbi Ezra Weinberg
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: conflict resolution, Jewish texts
Jewish tradition is a storehouse of wisdom and practical application on how to navigate the world of conflict and how we respond to it. In this Immersion, we will explore what conflict transformation might look like in our times.
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Behind the Mask: A Creative Exploration of the Characters in the Purim Story
Facilitator: Elana Bell
Program Type: Event
ZoomTopic: Jewish texts, Writing
Gain inspiration from texts by Patricia Smith, Margaret Atwood, and others to inspire us to move beyond writing from the personal “I” and see what we can discover about the Purim stories and their meaning for our own lives when we put on the mask and write.
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