Dialogue Circle

05 Oct @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

BAJC Invites community members to participate in a Restorative Peacebuilding Circle as part of T’shuvah 5785. Some months ago, Miriam Dror offered the first part of a Friday TEDx talk on Restorative Justice and offered to do the second part together with John Ungerleider as an experience of peacebuilding, a restorative process.

In Miriam’s years of work in Indigenous Communities, she has been able to honor the roots of Restorative practices used when our human sense of kinship becomes strained in difficult times. These practices have enriched her ongoing work in communities and in schools. John has had many years of experience facilitating peacebuilding dialogues with international communities and restorative circles in local schools to open authentic communication and build bridges of understanding across significant divides.

As a community we are living through a very strained time where issues of Israel and Palestine for many are at the forefront of our feelings, thinking, and actions. We have also shared a vision of an inclusive BAJC community. In our own Jewish Culture, the upcoming High Holidays of Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Succot, offer us opportunities for Return, Healing, and Restoration.

We envision a listening circle that:

•  avoids predictable debates on contentious issues
•  invites genuine inquiry and the discipline to hear other perspectives
• deepens human relationships and welcomes change
• opens new insight so understanding grows in the creative tension of difference.

After guidelines for the conduct of the circle are agreed upon by our circle of participants, John and Miriam will provide carefully crafted questions to support our collective desires as a Jewish community.

Welcome!

Dialogue Circle will be held at 151 Greenleaf Street on Wednesday, October 23rd   7:00-8:30 PM