Let’s Take Action: From Shared Grief to Spiritual Growth
For those struggling with collective grief, join a conversation with Jungian psychotherapist and scholar Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PHD and Buddhist minister and teacher Lama Rod Owens. Both leaders will offer guidance in taking steps – both large and small – towards wisdom, spiritual growth, and action when faced with the troubles we collectively experience in the present and inherit from the past.
Following a discussion, we invite you to join small peer-led breakout room sessions guided by the following prompts:
- What insights have you gained by struggling with the grief of catastrophic events both locally and globally or ancestral trauma? Can you name at least one new opportunity for change or see one new pathway that has cleared?
- What roles can spiritual or mindfulness practice, service, advocacy, or activism play in your journey towards wholeness?
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and spiritual leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement, and a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. She was ordained by Reb Zalman in 1992 and is widely known for her groundbreaking work on Kabbalah, depth psychology, intergenerational trauma healing, and the re-integration of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism. Rabbi Tirzah lectures and teaches nationally about spiritual and ancient wisdom practices that are honed to assist us at this critical time in world history. Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma (Monkfish, 2019) is the recipient of the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Gold in Psychology and the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 book award.
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets. Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.
About the Series “The Whole World in Our Hands”
Collective grief is a response to tragedy among cultural groups, communities, towns, nations, and global citizens. War, terror, racism, natural disaster, the pandemic, environmental injustice, and mass shootings adversely affect all of us directly or indirectly via news and social media. In these times of trouble, let’s examine shared experiences of grief through listening, learning, mindfulness, and activation.
About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together to create a more compassionate world. We support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
