Facilitated support groups structured to process crisis in Israel-Palestine

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Healing Together Circles offer a series of guided sessions for individuals affected by the ongoing crisis in Israel-Palestine. These meetings help participants feel heard, engage with diverse perspectives, and reflect on their own identity and community. Through emotionally enriching dialogue, we foster resilience, mutual support, and a sense of belonging.

What are healing circles?

We invite you to join a four-meeting series. The first session serves as an introduction, allowing you to meet the members and facilitator and determine whether participation would be beneficial for you. If you choose to continue, we ask for a commitment to the next three meetings to foster safety, consistency, and trust among participants, and a donation of $30 to cover operational expenses.

How do healing circles work?

Using a trauma-informed approach, with the aim of building emotionally centered communities, is a productive way of transforming these fractured spaces into places where people with differing views can come to appreciate the shared experiences of grief and loss before attempting to deal with competing narratives and political stances.

Centering on shared emotions, such as grief, anger, frustration, anxiety, and hope, can be an essential first step in opening up new spaces for listening, empathy, and dialogue. Once these “emotionally centered communities” have been created, it is much more likely that we can work together through our often conflicting narratives. 

Trauma-informed approach

With the prevalence of intergenerational and ongoing trauma and grief within the Jewish and Palestinian communities, there is a need for spaces to safely process emotions without judgement.

Anyone 18 years of age or older that is affected directly or indirectly by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East or is drawn to the topic for personal reasons.

Why join a healing circle and who are they for?

With the prevalence of intergenerational and ongoing trauma and grief within the Jewish and Palestinian communities, there is a need for spaces to safely process emotions without judgment. While sharing conflicting narratives can open up opportunities for cross-cultural understanding, these deep-seated traumas often hinder well-intentioned bridge-building efforts.

In any group or community, we encounter topics that cause distance, tension, fracture, and cognitive dissonance. A primary cause of breakdown in groups is when an issue touches a core or “sacred” value that is central to our identity and our sense of belonging. One example that many have encountered is the discourse around the events in Israel-Palestine. In worship spaces, public forums, businesses, and even in family units, we have seen how differing viewpoints and traumatic experiences have led to breakdowns in communications and even toxic spaces in places where people had previously gotten along well. 

Rationale

Healing Together fosters resilience in communities by building bridges of compassion, mutual understanding, and a sense of safety. Through "support circles" that prioritize heart-centered dialogue, participants can process emotions and life experiences in a judgment-free environment. Communities that emphasize shared values, understanding, and compassion are more likely to feel connected, supported, and empowered. We hope that these communities will use their resilience and empowerment to promote the notion of Peace and independence for Israelis and Palestinians, with full equality for everyone on the land, and true social, economic, and environmental justice.

Healing Together support circle would start as an online pilot group that meets weekly for a set amount of meetings. 

The core Healing-Together team will train facilitators who will later offer In-person Healing circles on line and in communities across the USA and Canada. 

Mission, Purpose & Vision

We are aware of the reality that certain words and the absence of words may impact a person’s sense of safety and willingness to participate in our healing circles. We aspire for our healing circles to help generate a sense of expanded and shared reality and connection that activates our capacity to live in collective wisdom and cultivate a reality grounded in compassion. We value and seek to hold and facilitate the expansion of, a plurality of voices and narratives

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