EJW Network Community Gathering
Discover Your Inner Esther (אֶסְתֵּר)
Thursday, February 23, 2022
10am PST | 1pm EST | 8pm Israel
Guided by Ilene Serlin & Rivkah Coburn
Our identities as Jewish women often come through role models of heroines.
Esther was Persian: who were the role models in your family?
What cultures, what music, what healing powers did they have?
In this workshop, we will explore different cultures through movement and music to connect to the healing powers of our women ancestors.
What to bring: Please clear the space so that you have room to move freely.
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Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT, EJW Advisory Council & Founding Member, licensed psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist in San Francisco and Marin county, is the past president of the San Francisco Psychological Association, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past-President of the Division of Humanistic Psychology. Ilene Serlin is Associated Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, has taught at Saybrook University, Lesley University, UCLA, the NY Gestalt Institute and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She is the editor of Whole Person Healthcare (2007, 3 vol., Praeger), co-editor of Integrative Care for the Traumatized, over 100 chapters and articles on body, art and psychotherapy, and is on the editorial boards of PsycCritiques, the American Dance Therapy Journal, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, International Journal: Creative Arts Education and Therapy. Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, Journal of Applied Arts and Health, and The Humanistic Psychologist.
Rivkah Coburn is a Jewish Embodiment Facilitator through her studies with Rabbi Diane Elliot in ALEPH’s Embodied Spirit En-Spiriting Body Program. Currently in the ALEPH Ordination Program as a rabbinical student, Rivkah’s intention is to open the possibilities of Jewish embodied learning and practice to others through prayer and ritual practice, Torah study, and Jewish mysticism. Rivkah is a Mashpi’ah Ruchanit, a Spiritual Director, having graduated from ALEPH’s Hashpa-ah Program. She serves at Congregation Shir Tikvah and P’nai Or of Portland in spiritual leadership and Jewish education from brit mitzvah age to elders. Rivkah continues to study with Rabbi Diane both participating in, as well as occasionally leading, a weekly embodied healing circle which Rabbi Diane founded in 2020. Along with her movement education as a dancer (BFA in modern dance and choreography, Temple University) and as a yoga instructor and teacher trainer, Rivkah brings experience from her Jewish contemplative studies. Living in Portland, OR with her husband, Alan, and two kitties, Rivkah loves to garden, hike, and listen to classical music.
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