A Special Invitation From Mayyim Hayyim

Please check out this note and special invitation from our grantee Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters. "Dear Susan, I hope your meeting last week went well. We enjoyed having your group in our space. Attached is a mailing for our upcoming Mikveh Guide training. Members of the BJCWF are warmly invited to attend any or all of the sessions. Happy Sukkot! Aliza Kline Executive Director Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Paula Brody & Family Education Center"

MIKVEH GUIDE

CONTINUING EDUCATION
NOVEMBER 2009

Holding Wholeness and Healing from Abuse

Please join us for a special Mikveh Guide training in collaboration with Kol Isha “Steps to Safety” of the Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Boston. Supported by the Boston Jewish Community Women’s Fund.

TWO SESSION SERIES:
I. Overview of Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community and the Impact on Survivors.
• Sunday, November 1, 6:30 – 9:00 PM
-OR-
• Wednesday November 4; 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Dinner will be served.

II. Use of the mikveh as a resource for Survivors of Abuse; whether they are currently in abusive situations or healing from abuse; discussion, problem solving; practice, how to handle difficult situations, how to take care of yourself helping others.
• Sunday, November 15, 6:30 – 9:00 PM
-OR-
• Wednesday, November 18; 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Dinner will be served.

It is important that you attend both sessions and that all Mikveh Guides make an effort to participate in this important deepening of our skills.

RSVP to Sharon Solomon, Interim Mikveh Center Director at sharons@mayyimhayyim.org or
617-244-1836, ext. 201


Janet Yassen, LICSW, Mikveh Guide from Cohort One, Crises Service Coordinator at Cambridge Health Alliance and Embracing Waters Coordinator, strongly urges Guides to attend.

Janet has worked with our partners to insure that by participating in the training you will:

1. Learn/relearn/refresh everything you need to know about domestic abuse in the Jewish community.
2. Update your knowledge about resources available to help victims/survivors abuse.
3. Learn about the impact of abuse, the healing process, and its implications for guests and immersees at Mayyim Hayyim.
4. Refresh/review immersion ceremonies for survivors and deepen your skills
5. regarding introducing/explaining immersion ceremonies.
6. Learn how to improve your guiding for survivors who are still in abusive relationships and how to help immersees experience wholeness, even as they continue to be in difficult situations.
7. Come together as a guiding community for an evening of learning, conversation, support, connection, and dinner.
8. Problem solve/discuss situations such as:

• -When you suspect that abuse has occurred
• -An immersee discloses abuse to you
• -An immersee becomes very emotional about her/his past
• -You are stirred by the witnessing or your own history has been touched