Documents I am presenting on this page
- The Spotify playlist I used for the Saturday Morning session in the retreat, where instead of a traditional Shabbat morning service, I led participants in an embodied prayerful dance
- Ophir's sessions he facilitated during the retreat
- Abrah's sessions she facilitated during retreats
- other photos of the retreat
- The plans I created for this retreat and the OP design
- Feedback from participants on the last retreat
- Movie my brother and I have worked on with our friend Johnny who took the videos on our last men's retreat
Re-wilding Judaism Retreat
I am organizing and facilitating a Re-wilding Judaism retreat here in Colorado. I got a 5,000 dollar grant from the Moishe House Retreat. I plan to find a sweet location that can feel intimate and spacious and have connection to the natural world. The goal of this retreat is to create a space where participants can get a taste of earth-based Judaism and experience it through embodiment, nature connection, and discussion of Jewish connection and responsibility to nature through concepts such as the moon calendar, Shmita, and Wilderness Meditation. My brother Ophir Haberer, who worked for Wilderness Torah in California and Abrah Dresdale, a Jewish permaculture professor will be facilitating the retreat. Mission: Connect Folx to the earth-based wisdom of Judaism and help them reconnect to prayer through nature awaerness and guided dance and movement
Submit date to Moishe House
Have a phone conversation with Ophir and Abrah to create shared vision for retreat and see what topics each person will facilitate.
Create application for the retreat and promote it using facebook and email. Email to local synagogues (Nevei Kodesh and Bonai Shalom). Promote on Shakti facebook page, Moishe House. Send to one table and backcountry bayit to get people from other locations in Colorado.
Find a location that feels earthy but can comfortably fit about 20 participants.
Create budget using location, cost of facilitators, expected cost of food, transportation, supplies, and unexpected events
Reach out to people you think will benefit a lot from retreat and can implement the wisdom back into the community
Create an in-depth curriculum that can be replicated with Ophir and Abrah.
Get all the food, prepare the food, and supplies needed. Create as little waste as possible, close to zero.
Re-Wilding Judaism OP design
The tasks to complete the design and the core report of the OP packet by May 1st, 2019 for this OP.
Look at Liam and Ava's feedback and summarize it with Bullet Points on Mahara
Get template set up for creating OP
Review Abrah's Feedback Form and look at past feedback to create a feedback form that will work for you
Jot down bullet points of what Inspired you
How have you communicated and why? Put into a paragraph and copy and paste emails you have sent
Write: “This is why we do it/“ “this is why we choose these sites” “this is why we design this menu”
Write mission statement for Retreats we are creating to have
With Ophir, we will film each other
How does the book Belonging by Belle Hookes relate to retreat? How do I incorporate it into activity Saturday afternoon. Include in annotated bibliography
Compile a list of books and articles used and how they were used
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Feedback from participants
What Worked:
- Saturday Night ritual- reclamation exercise
- Dance Shacharit
- Adam’s Session- have journaling mixed into sessions
- Saturday Hike
- Hebraic Calendar session
- Rituals
- Connective environment
- Inclusivity
- Food
What Didn't Work:
- Not enough time outdoors/in wild
- Venue kitchen/gathering room- not spacious enough
- Not enough unprogrammed time
- Communal Dinner Prep- needed more prep beforehand of ingredients, recipes, time frame
- Not enough play
- Prayers in the masculine
- Not enough time for Domesticated vs. Wild Judaism session
Testimonials:
“As a mixed heritage Jewish person raised Christian, stepping into Jewish spaces has been a terrifying and challenging experience. The organizers of this retreat made me feel so comfortable and welcome that learning about the traditions and the practices of Jewish people was rich and easy”
A wildly inclusive, rejuvenating experience. I have not found a Jewish community I felt authentic plugging into… until now.
Dor, Ophir, and Abrah held an amazing container full of nourishment, community, exploration, and regenerative connection to each other, nature, and Judaism. This retreat helped bring me into right relationship with my personal Judaism and the larger religion. It also helped me connected to the local Jewish community of my generation, which I’m grateful for. Overall, I would call this experience profound, transformative, and deeply connective.
This retreat is tapping into the most vibrant and relevant edges of 21st Judaism I’ve experienced. Thanks to Moishe House for supporting this vital work.” Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now, voted one of Denver’s top thinkers
I am grateful to have been able to unravel and recreate a kinship with a form of Judaism that feels complete, progressive, accessible, inclusive, tight-knit, honoring, reflective, and healing. Thank you Moishe House for funding this retreat--the impact will most certainly have a rippling effect to me personally and my broader community.