Free Registration Link: https://forms.gle/DbwbPF8iGmWMTakq8
Join us for Facing Emotions & Healing Relationships, a deeply personal, well-supported, and spiritually-grounded session on exploring how we’ve been wrestling with our relationships since October 7. Drawing on our open-hearted sharing, deep listening, and collective wisdom, together we will process this tension and arrive at insights for helping us navigate emotions with ourselves, our families, our friends, our colleagues, and other people in our lives.
The goal of this gathering is to listen to each other as we share our lived experiences navigating relationships in conversation around Israel and Palestine and/or being Jewish. Come learn how to build our capacity as a community to create an intentional, supportive, safe, and healing space for our diverse voices to be heard. The session will take place on Sunday, March 30 from 12-3PM and will be led by Alycia Fridkin, an experienced facilitator on equity issues and a member of the Vancouver queer Jewish community, who led our Listen & Be Heard a year ago. We look forward to seeing you there.
Registration is free but required in advance. Capacity is 30 registrants. Light vegetarian food and refreshments will be provided.
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This event is part of our JQT Mental Health Support Series, which was developed in partnership with JFS Vancouver, following the Twice Blessed 2.0: The Jewish LGBTQ2SIA+ Initiative’s community needs assessment, which identified a critical service gap: Call to Action #6 - Develop and provide funding for LGBTQ2SIA+ friendly Jewish mental health support.
This gathering also addresses Call to Action #12 - Be open to those who have a spectrum of opinion on Israel/Palestine.
For the most up-to-date details on this series, please visit: https://www.jqtvancouver.ca/jqt-mental-health
Covid policy - JQT strictly follows the recommendations of Vancouver Coastal Health and makes decisions accordingly. Mask wearing is optional, but encouraged in group settings and to protect those in our circles who are immunocompromised.
Accessibility info - Programming will take place in Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, located on the ground level of 1193 Kingsway. There are no stairs, the area near the entrance is clear and accessible. The venue has one women's washroom and one all-gender washroom with two urinals. They are on the same level and accessible. There is street parking on Inverness Street and they have four parking spots behind at the back of the building. Please let us know if you require assistance at the time of registration, so that we have ample time to coordinate accommodations with the venue.
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WHO ARE WE?
Alycia Fridkin is an equity and anti-racism consultant who supports individuals and organizations to address inequities in health care and other sectors. She has facilitated engagement sessions and workshops on systemic racism, whiteness and white fragility, meaningful involvement, stigmatized topics such as substance use and decriminalization, and the Palestine/Israel conflict. Her training includes a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Masters in Health Science, and she is a certified Transformational Coach as well. She is interested in initiatives that strive to make communities safer and fairer. Alycia is a queer Jewish White settler living in Vancouver, BC on the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples.
JQT Vancouver (pronounced J-Cutie) is a volunteer-run Jewish Queer and Trans charitable non-profit dedicated to "queering" Jewish spaces and "Jew-ifying" Queer spaces through education, dialogue, art, cultural celebration and partnerships in Vancouver, BC, on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. www.jqtvancouver.ca