Upcoming Classes
& Events

Find upcoming classes, rituals, and offerings below.
All event times are listed in Mountain Time,
and other time zones are often offered in event details.

To inquire about bringing Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone to your community,
please get in touch.

The Mystic Tree of Life: Sacred Instrument for Ancestral & Personal Healing
Mar
19
to Apr 4

The Mystic Tree of Life: Sacred Instrument for Ancestral & Personal Healing

A 3-week journey with 6 courses
Virtual classes, all classes will be recorded.


During this era of uncertainty and transformation, many of us are asking: How can we begin to heal the personal and ancestral traumas that keep pulling us back into negative cycles of reactivity, fear, and oppression of ourselves and others?

As if anticipating the urgent needs of our modern world, the ancient sages and mystics left us maps for navigating turbulent times on Planet Earth. One such template is the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, a radical system that helps us restore our connection to our starlit pathways to heaven and our healing roots in earth. The archetypal Tree is timeless and carries the breath of the ancestors who remind us of our magical capabilities to heal past, present, and future—not only our own wounds, but the traumatic histories of our ancestors and the repercussions for those who come next.

In this 3-week experiential journey, we will employ the vivid archetypal imagery of the Tarot’s Major Arcana to help ellicit the ancient medicine of the Eitz Chayim, the Living Tree, in order to heal ourselves and the ancestral patterns that shape us. With all this ancient richness at our fingertips, we will balance the 4 worlds of our soul’s composition, open our central channel, and awaken our 10 Sephirot—portals of divine energy—to hear the guidance of our ancestors more distinctly.

This is a deep and joy-filled journey that will assist us to heal wounds that we carry in our own being, and in our family lineages. As with all of Rabbi Tirzah’s courses, we take up the ancient wisdom to help us restore our inborn clarity, connection, and power—for the sake of the larger healing that is entreating us all.

This course will be offered through Caroline Myss’s Reflections Parallel. More details including how to register are coming soon! To be the first to know when registration opens, please sign up on Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone’s email list below.

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Introductory Event - Therapy Mastermind Circle
Apr
16

Introductory Event - Therapy Mastermind Circle

Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone will be offering a 6-month course for therapists and healing practitioners interested to deepen their skills and toolset for incorporating intergenerational trauma healing modalities into their practice. Join this introductory session to learn more. Details coming soon!

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FREE Webinar: Understanding and Healing from Ancestral Trauma in Times of Turbulence and Transformation
Jul
10

FREE Webinar: Understanding and Healing from Ancestral Trauma in Times of Turbulence and Transformation

This event is hosted by Mind Medicine Australia and will begin online at noon Australia time (GMT+11), please calibrate for your local timezone.

During this time of societal transformation and uncertainty, many of us are reverberating with the intensity of global events. We sense that our personal and collective wounds arise from a context much larger than our own. Whether we are talking about anxiety, addictive behaviors, or the oppression produced by hatred of self or other, when we widen the lens to include our ancestral lineages and their historical traumas, our own challenges and those of our clients take on a new perspective.

In this 60-minute teaching, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone will introduce the field of intergenerational trauma healing by sharing her own research, which is poised at the nexus of depth psychology, mysticism, and epigenetic science. She will then guide us in an experience into the healing dimension that Dr. Carl Jung called the Imaginal Realm (please have your journal on hand.) The teaching will close with a live Q & A conversation.

In this webinar, you will:

  • Understand why intergenerational trauma healing is critical to the world now

  • Study the four universal hallmarks of trauma

  • Meet the burgeoning field of Epigenetics

  • Hear remarkable case studies of trauma transmission

  • Learn a grounding practice to calm and stabilize your nervous system and experience the Imaginal Realm

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Intergenerational Trauma Healing Talk with Comox Valley Jung Society
Jan
11

Intergenerational Trauma Healing Talk with Comox Valley Jung Society

7-9pm Pacific | 8-10 Mountain

In this online experiential evening, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone will draw from the ancient wisdom tradition of the Jewish Mystical Tradition known as the Kabbalah to address the influences of the past on ourselves, our families, and world events. Dr. Jung himself extolled the Kabbalah as illuminative of his psychological perspective. We will see how the extraordinary mythical perspectives of both Jungian psychology and the Kabbalah can attune us to the multiple interpenetrating dimensions of the psyche, helping us to see beyond time and understand and heal the ancestral legacies alive within us and the world.

Our journey will be both scholarly and experiential, including a guided journey (active imagination) into the Ancestral Realm, as well as select teachings from the ancient Book of Formation (2nd century), the Book of Splendor (13th century), and Lurianic Kabbalah (16th century) as templates for the work we all must do: repairing our souls (Tikkun haNephesh) and repairing the world (Tikkun Olam.)

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Off The Page Conversation and Q&A with Spirituality & Practice
Dec
20

Off The Page Conversation and Q&A with Spirituality & Practice

Wednesday, December 20th, 10am PT | 11am MT | 1pm ET 

You're invited to an Off The Page Conversation and Q&A with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and the Spirituality & Practice community.

Rabbi Tirzah will be discussing her book, Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma, with Spirituality & Practice’s Editor Jon M. Sweeney. 

This event will be streamed live on the Spirituality & Practice Facebook page - no need to register, simply save the time in your calendar and come and join us over on Facebook!  

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Dec
11

Seeding Light: Speaking from the Heart in Dark Times

During this season of Hanukkah, when Jewish people traditionally celebrate the miracle of light that penetrates the cruelty of oppression, gather with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and her dear friend Mirabai Starr to light candles and pray together. Together, they will share their heartbreak over the situation in Israel and Gaza, explore the moral dilemmas of this moment, and reaffirm the power of the heart to shift the global conversation from one of polarization to one that roots us in our common humanity. 

Together we will ask:

In the midst of so much bloodshed, and so many innocent lives being lost, what might the Divine Mother say about all of this?

What can we do, thousands of miles from the actual violence, to help shift the trajectory toward peace and away from helplessness?

How can we go beyond charged polemics and keep re-finding our steady moral compass so that we can put out more light than heat in the world?

If you are staggering under the weight of global grief, plagued by outrage, fear, shame, or clouded by confusion, please take a seat beside us on the fifth night of Hanukkah as we light the candles, connect with our inner knowing, pray like we've never prayed before, listen to Her voice within, and explore the most challenging and life-giving truths we can about justice and injustice, dismantling false narratives and reimagining a new way forward.  Seed the light with us.

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Ancestral Healing through the Wisdom of the Kabbalah
Dec
5
to Dec 21

Ancestral Healing through the Wisdom of the Kabbalah

Six 90-minute classes • Tuesdays & Thursdays
December 5 – 21 • 10 am PT | 11am MT | 1 pm ET

In this course we draw from the sacred wisdom tradition of the Kabbalah to help us return to our innate balance and heal the influences of past wounds on ourselves, our families and our ancestral bloodlines.

We sense the spell of past generations and their unresolved conflicts in the tragedies unfolding before our eyes. How can we break the cycles of intergenerational trauma and expand our hearts and minds to dis-spell the effects of past wounds upon us? Might healing our personal and family wounds quicken the collective healing so needed now?

In this course we draw from the sacred wisdom tradition of the Kabbalah to help us return to our innate balance and heal the influences of past wounds on ourselves, our families and our ancestral bloodlines. The extraordinary mythical perspective of the Kabbalah attunes us to the unseen dimensions, just as it clarifies our connection to the earth plane. It helps us to maximize our human instruments to be better conduits for the exuberant life force that wants to bring forth clarity, wisdom, and healing.

Our journey will be both scholarly and highly experiential, including healing practices to restore our nervous systems, guided meditations into the ancestral realm, and an end of year solstice ritual. We will explore teachings from the ancient Book of Formation (2nd century), the Book of Splendor (13th century), and Lurianic Kabbalah (16th century) as templates to understanding the soul’s journey on earth, the return of the Divine Feminine, and the work of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.   

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Let’s Take Action: From Ancestral Wounds to Recovery
Nov
29

Let’s Take Action: From Ancestral Wounds to Recovery

5-6:15pm Pacific | 6-7:15pm Mountain | 8-9:15pm Eastern

Join Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and Vimalasara as they delve into the transformative power of confronting intergenerational trauma in the journey toward recovery and spiritual wellbeing in a free event hosted by Reimagine.

In this culminating session of the “Addiction, Harmful Habits, and Healing” series, esteemed spiritual leaders Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and Vimalasara explore the role of ancestral trauma in our quest for holistic health and spiritual wellness. Bringing distinct cultural and religious perspectives, both speakers underscore the importance of mindfulness and meditation as vital tools to break free from destructive patterns. Expect inspiring stories, interactive dialogue, and actionable steps to enhance your wellbeing and interpersonal relationships.

Following their discussion, we will invite you to join small peer-led breakout room sessions guided by the following prompts:

  • What insights have you gained about yourself through your struggles with harmful habits or addictions? Can you name at least one new opportunity or see one new pathway that has cleared?

  • How do you manage difficult emotions? Are there specific mindfulness techniques that have been effective for you?

  • What roles can service, advocacy, or activism play in your journey through ancestral trauma?

Learn more about Reimagine and Rabbi Firestone’s past event with this network.

Reimagine's mission is to help all people face adversity, loss, and mortality, and channel the hard parts of life into meaningful action and growth.

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Wounds into Wisdom: Tools for Healing — A Shabbat Dinner Gathering with OneTable
Nov
10

Wounds into Wisdom: Tools for Healing — A Shabbat Dinner Gathering with OneTable

5:30-8pm Mountain Time

OneTable is honored to bring in guest facilitator Rabbi Tirzah Firestone to guide a discussion about how trauma legacies can be identified, transformed, and healed. Rabbi Tirzah will share about her experiences, research, and the road map she created for healing based on science, psychology, and Jewish wisdom to transform stories of trauma into strength and liberation. Together, we will learn more about the 7 principles of Jewish cultural healing, discussing our own experiences and stories together. You will leave with a framework and tools to continue reflecting on intergenerational trauma to share with your friends, family, and community.

Join us for a rich prayer, inquiry & discussion, and dinner in community at Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, CO. All are welcome to attend, regardless of your experience with Shabbat.

The intention of the 'Conversations' Shabbat dinner is to deepen community engagement with a specific topic around the Shabbat dinner table.

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Collective Trauma Summit 2023
Sep
26
to Oct 4

Collective Trauma Summit 2023

Tune into the 5th Annual Collective Trauma Summit!
Free access to Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’s teaching alongside an array of brilliant teachers!

From September 26 – October 4, this summit will bring together over 60 speakers to explore how to heal unresolved traumas in ourselves and our communities. Hosted by Thomas Hübl, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science.

Join over 100,000+ hearts and minds for this global online event (people from more than 140 countries anticipated!). Come join this moving community!

It’s a special time for our global community to unite, exchange ideas and have meaningful conversations about global traumas and unhealed cultural wounds.

Together, we’ll explore ways to address and heal personal, ancestral, and collective trauma with talks, live events, inspiring talks, poetry readings, movement practices, musical performances, guided meditations, panel discussions, and more.

And as a special registration bonus, you’ll also receive instant access to a free chapter of Thomas Hübl’s new book Attuned.


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Audiobook Release!
Sep
26

Audiobook Release!

Wounds into Wisdom will be released as an audiobook narrated by the author, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, on Tuesday, September 26. You can order it from Audible and access it wherever you find audiobooks! Includes the new foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté.

Thank you for helping to spread the word!

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High Holidays 5784 with Metivta Center for Contemplative Judaism
Sep
15
to Sep 25

High Holidays 5784 with Metivta Center for Contemplative Judaism

Deepen your spiritual vision and travel into the heart of all being! Join Reb Tirzah and the Metivta community for silent meditation, heartfelt prayers, and inspired leadership that will take you beyond ordinary Jewish holiday services.

This year, all services will held once again in person at the Santa Monica Synagogue with the option to attend online as well.
Please see full listing of High Holiday dates and times here.

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Shabbaton with Rodef Shalom, Bay Area, CA
Aug
25
to Aug 26

Shabbaton with Rodef Shalom, Bay Area, CA

In person in San Rafael, California
Friday, August 25, 6:15-8pm Pacific
Saturday, August 26, 2-8pm Pacific

This half-day retreat includes learning, reflection, and discussion, time in nature, dinner and havdalah.* The retreat is set against the historic backdrop of University of Redlands, whose campus includes breathtaking views of Mount Tamalpais, Bald Hill, and their iconic castles. The retreat itself will be held indoors with access to one of the campus labyrinths.

Friday evening Shabbat service will be at Osher Marin JCC and virtual on zoom and facebook live. To tune in virtually, click here.

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Journey into the Ancestral Dimension: A Rosh Chodesh Elul Ritual with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Aug
20
to Aug 21

Journey into the Ancestral Dimension: A Rosh Chodesh Elul Ritual with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone

5:30-7pm Pacific | 6:30-8pm Mountain

The month of Elul has long been held as an auspicious time for personal healing and the breaking of old patterns. Under this moon, the ancients said our efforts to recalibrate and repair our lives receive special energy from the divine world. Join Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone and the Shefa community as we gather on the New Moon of Elul to begin the work of this sacred month: to celebrate the good, clarify our karmic assignments, and be guided into the olam ha’avot, the abode of the ancestors, to encounter our spiritual allies, friends, and ancestors, and receive their guidance. This 90-minute experiential teaching is open to people of all backgrounds and ages who are interested in understanding the unseen dimension of the ancestors in light of the psychedelic experience.

Event hosted by Shefa Jewish Psychedelic Support.

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Wellsprings of Wisdom: Deep Ancestral Healing Through Jungian Archetypes, Ancient Mysticism & Trauma Science
Jul
5
to Aug 23

Wellsprings of Wisdom: Deep Ancestral Healing Through Jungian Archetypes, Ancient Mysticism & Trauma Science

New 7-week course with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone begins July 5!
Journey into the deeply mystical work of repairing the wounds of ancestral trauma through three profound wisdom wellsprings — archetypal psychology, ancient mysticism, and modern neuroscience.

From these wells, we’ll explore:

  • The ancient mystical wisdom of the Hebraic tradition, including the sacred Hebrew letters, the Tree of Life, and other Kabbalistic teachings

  • The profound archetypal teachings of depth psychology as taught by Carl Jung and his school — as found in the Major Arcana of the tarot — offered as a template for tapping the innate wisdom or our psyches

  • The wealth of information from the emerging world of trauma science, epigenetics, and polyvagal theory that can help you ground and self-regulate in the turbulent present moment to heal the historical traumas of the past

Connect with your yet-unsourced healing powers, your own unique sacred purpose, and the spiritual allies and ancestors who are always available to guide you.

Class meets July 5, 12, 19, August 2, 9, 16, 23 at 1pm Pacific | 2pm Mountain | 4pm Eastern
Course includes two ritual practicums. All classes are recorded.

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Journey to the Ancestral Realm to Rediscover Your Hidden Wholeness
Jun
13

Journey to the Ancestral Realm to Rediscover Your Hidden Wholeness

This event will air at 5:30pm Pacific | 6:30pm Mountain |8:30pm Eastern
There will be an encore on Sunday, June 18 at 11am Pacific

Are you feeling the collective anxiety that’s being perpetuated in our culture by the cascade of crises in our world?

The challenges we’re facing as a global community are a direct reflection of unresolved trauma in our ancestral lineages.

The pain that accumulated in the generations before us is now coming due, and much of the stress that permeates our lives stems from unhealed wounds that have been bequeathed to us from our family lines.

Our work is to go inward and explore the issues of our ancestors so we can stop the “trauma train” in its tracks — and release patterns that keep us bound to small-mindedness and the material fixations that limit our true potential.

Join Rabbi Tirzah on Tuesday, June 13, to draw strength and to become a healer of the distortions, blockages, and limitations that life’s traumas — and those of your predecessors — inevitably bring.

In this free online workshop, you’ll discover:

  • A guided visualization into the ancestral realm to connect with your own healing powers and spiritual allies

  • That you have spiritual allies and ancestors who are always available to guide you toward your sacred purpose and the healing you need to do to return to, as Thomas Merton teaches, your hidden wholeness

  • The synergy between Eastern and Western spiritual traditions that when you remain tethered to your original contract, your tikkun, your life is more fulfilling and flows more smoothly

  • The central, primary archetype of the Self, or the “godspark” within you — and how to bring it out of latency into manifestation, so you can do the necessary healing work for yourself and your lineage

  • How to return to Big Mind — your eagle’s view of compassionate awareness, remembrance, and the recognition of the true wholeness and luminosity that resides at your core

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Let’s Take Action: Transmuting Our Collective Traumas
May
24

Let’s Take Action: Transmuting Our Collective Traumas

A rabbi and the leader of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' community violence initiative guide participants towards action amidst collective trauma.

This final session in the series “From Collective Trauma to Transformation”, co-hosted by Giffords, guides participants in steps towards action. It features a conversation between gang violence interrupter Paul Carrillo and psychotherapist Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma. Each will share their own narratives to demonstrate how trauma residue passes from generation to generation and how it can be transformed through acts of service, advocacy, and activism.

About Reimagine and “From Collective Trauma to Transformation” Series

Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and–at our own pace– actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth. www.letsreimagine.org

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Jewish Social Service Agency  Keynote Lecture & Workshop
May
12

Jewish Social Service Agency Keynote Lecture & Workshop

Rabbi Tirzah will offer the keynote, “Healing the Wounds of Past and Present: Providing Care in an Uncertain World,” and endnote lecture, “Sustainable Practices for Resilience & Vital Health” for this year’s JSSA symposium.

The past does not simply disappear. Both the traumas and the triumphs in our history are alive within us and within those we care for. How can we turn to heal the hardships in our past? Can we tap the strength, resilience, and wisdom from our ancestral roots to help us today?

Objectives include:

  • Explore the four hallmarks of trauma and be able to identify traits of trauma residue (in yourself and those with whom you work)

  • Understand the findings of epigenetic research that explain how your ancestors’ extreme life challenges may be influencing you

  • Discern the positive legacies you inherited and access the healing power of your wise and well ancestors and teachers.

  • Engage and and take home 3 doable practices to restore your physical and emotional energy

  • Learn an easy acronym to help you remember the 4 steps of personal self-care especially during stressful times

  • Be guided in a direct experience of the guidance and loving energy of a well and wise ancestor

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Wisdom Circle: Intergenerational Trauma Healing for Practitioners
May
7

Wisdom Circle: Intergenerational Trauma Healing for Practitioners

A Seven Month Journey Culminating on May 7, 2023

First Sunday of the Month

November 2022 through May 2023
The current cohort is underway and applications are closed.
To learn more about future practitioner cohorts, please sign up on this page.

An intimate professional cohort facilitated by Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone for healing and health practitioners. We will deepen our understanding of intergenerational legacies and gain tools to heal impact, glean wisdom, and assist transformation in ourselves, our families, our clients, and our communities.  

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The Sacred Wound as a Portal to your Awakening
May
1
to May 5

The Sacred Wound as a Portal to your Awakening

Online Global Conference from May 1st -5th, 2023
Rabbi Tirzah’s teaching, “Healing Ancestral Wounds as Sacred Purpose” will air on May 2nd

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is delighted be one of the featured speakers for this wisdom-filled event with amazing speakers from around the globe, award-winning authors, psychologists, teachers, spiritual mentors from all walks of life, who will gather for 5 full days to specifically address this unique topic, the dark night of the soul, that we are each affected by — either personally or via someone we are close to. Sign up at link below to tune into this free online summit!

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Untying Generational Knots: Mending our Families, Repairing the World ~ A Shabbaton with Romemu Congregation in New York City
Apr
28
to Apr 30

Untying Generational Knots: Mending our Families, Repairing the World ~ A Shabbaton with Romemu Congregation in New York City

Shabbat of the Child Culminating Shabbat with Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone

Friday, April 28
Kabbalat Shabbat Services: 6:30 PM | Talk with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone: 9 PM
Onsite at The West End Presbyterian Church & Online
No registration required. To join on Zoom, get link here.
Can’t make the dinner onsite? Join on Zoom for Rabbi Firestone’s teaching at 9PM. No registration required. Click here to join on Zoom.

Saturday, April 29
Join us Saturday morning for Open Book at 8:45 and Shabbat Morning Services at onsite the Romemu Center or online (get Zoom links here). No registration is required. Following services, join us for Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Firestone.

Can’t come to the onsite lunch? Join Rabbi Firestone’s teaching on Zoom at 1:30 PM. No registration required. Click here to join on Zoom.

Sunday, April 30 — In-person only

9 AM – 1:30 PM at the Romemu Center (176 W 105th Street)
We will start the morning with breakfast at 9 AM and the workshop will begin at 10 AM. Since Rabbi Firestone’s teaching on Shabbat will lay the groundwork for this workshop, you must register for the Shabbat Lunch & Learn on April 29 in order to join for this workshop.

Everyone who attends this workshop will receive a copy of Rabbi Firestone’s book Wounds into Wisdom. Cost for workshop: $75 ($50 for Romemu members).

Register here.

Weekend Event Description

Each of us holds tremendous powers to change the trajectory of our lives and the life of the world. When we face our own trauma history and that of our family, we begin a soul journey that releases enormous generative energy with which we can heal ourselves and others. At this introductory weekend (Shabbaton), we will begin the work of untying the intergenerational knots in our personal and ancestral histories. Our purpose (kavana, intention) is to free and energize ourselves to be our most wise, compassionate, and impactful selves in a world that desperately needs us.

While this work is based in Jewish source teachings, it is open to people of all ethnic and faith backgrounds. Please attend both Saturday and Sunday, as Rabbi Firestone will be teaching the premises of ancestral healing on Saturday and setting the context for a deeper experiential dive on Sunday. Since Saturday’s teaching will lay the ground work for Sunday’s discussion, you must register for both Saturday and Sunday in order to attend the Sunday program.

Drawing from Jewish wisdom, remarkable stories and case studies, and the field of depth psychology, Rabbi Firestone will demonstrate how personal life-riddles often originate in our ancestral legacies, and how we can transform their seemingly impenetrable mysteries into usable meaning.

You may use this form to register for either Friday night dinner or Saturday Lunch & Learn or both. If you register for the Saturday Lunch & Learn you will also have the option to register for the Sunday workshop.

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Second Night Passover Seder
Apr
6

Second Night Passover Seder

Havurah Shir Hadash Synagogue, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in Ashland, Oregon

Join Reb David Zaslow and guest, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi Sue Morningstar and Maggidot Devorah Zaslow and Cyrise and Donna Zerner. The synagogue is accepting reservations for in-person attendance through March 29, and will be live streaming for those who can not be in person.

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Wounds into Wisdom: Healing our Intergenerational Trauma Legacies ~ A course with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone & Caroline Myss
Mar
7
to Mar 23

Wounds into Wisdom: Healing our Intergenerational Trauma Legacies ~ A course with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone & Caroline Myss

Untying intergenerational knots in our personal and ancestral histories frees and energizes us to be our wise, compassionate, and most impactful selves in a world that desperately needs us.

We are thrilled to invite you to join us for a 6-Part Reflections Parallel course with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and special guest Caroline Myss.

Each of us holds tremendous power to change the trajectory of our lives and the life of our world. We are born knowing that our lives are deliberate acts of creation. We are born with an impulse to discover the reasons why we have been given the gift of life. And yet, life is replete with challenges and obstacles that often result in the experience of trauma. The threads of trauma can go back generations in our life, getting passed down accidentally, unknowingly, and sometimes deliberately.

When we understand our own trauma history and the challenging historical patterns in our family lineages, we begin a compassionate soul journey that releases enormous healing potential that can benefit ourselves and others. Untying intergenerational knots in our personal and ancestral histories frees and energizes us to be our wise, compassionate, and most impactful selves in a world that desperately needs us.

We gather as an online global community in this seminar amidst intense societal transformation and uncertainty, welcoming people of all backgrounds who are committed to personal and collective healing. Participants will enjoy a rich synthesis of teachings from the fields of depth psychology, neuroscience, and mythic Kabbalistic wisdom, and benefit from Rabbi Tirzah’s accrued wisdom as a Jungian psychotherapist, spiritual elder, and educator in the burgeoning field of Ancestral Healing.

Along with the study of intergenerational trauma legacies, this intensive 6-week course will provide participants with embodied exercises, guided meditations, and ritual practices, with which to deepen their own spiritual connection and personal healing, and contribute to the well-being of family, community, and the world at large.

The course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30pm Pacific | 6-7:30pm Mountain.

Dates: March 7, 9,14, 16, 21, 23

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Free Online Event: Stop Depression Summit
Feb
22
to Feb 24

Free Online Event: Stop Depression Summit

Don’t miss the free online Stop Depression Summit, produced by a selfless group of Ukrainian psychologists whose project began as a means of helping Ukrainians who live around the world and feel utterly helpless in the face of Russia's violent incursion on their country. It did not take long for the conference to spread globally, with world-famous psychologists and doctors offering their teachings for free, and thousands signing up in over 65 countries!

This will be a transformational summit featuring in-depth interviews with more than 30 of the world’s top experts on depression. Plus, tools, techniques, and practices that you can use to help you become aware of depression responses, develop coping skills, and get support to deepen your enjoyment of life.

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Live Free Event: Dialogue with Gabor Maté on Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
Feb
16

Live Free Event: Dialogue with Gabor Maté on Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma

Live conversation with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone & best-selling author of The Myth of Normal. Dr. Mate wrote the foreword to the new paperback edition of Wounds into Wisdom, and the two will dialogue on Jewish legacies. Join us for what promises to be a spontaneous and outrageous hour!

Event Description
Join us as two impassioned trauma specialists and authors, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone and Dr. Gabor Maté, share personal experiences and professional challenges working with the burgeoning field of trauma healing across generations. They will discuss their families, what propelled them to the work they do, and the transformation that is possible in ourselves and the world when we heal the wounds of the past. Rabbi Firestone’s award-winning book, Wounds into Wisdom, newly released in paperback, and Dr. Maté’s best-selling Myth of Normal, have both been lauded as foundational works and will inform this candid conversation between renowned colleagues. Bring your questions and curiosity!

Facilitated by Lab/Shul founder Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie.
Co-hosted by Ayin Press, Monkfish, Lab/Shul, and Science & Nonduality (SAND).

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Free Online Event: Ancestral Healing Summit
Jan
30
to Feb 3

Free Online Event: Ancestral Healing Summit

February 2, 12pm-12:45pm Pacific | 1-1:45pm Mountain | 3-3:45pm Eastern

Join Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and more than 35 of today’s leading ancestral healing experts and teachers — including Thomas Hübl, Jill Purce, Sandra Ingerman, Grandmother Flordemayo, and Arielle Schwartz— sharing new practices and insights for connecting with the wise and loving among your lineage.

Rabbi Tirzah’s teaching, Blessing the Bones of your Familial Wounds, will air on February 2 — Join us as we venture into the realms of the shimmering, whispering Ancestral Realm. Whether you are a beginner in the work of Ancestral Healing, or a veteran journeyer, you will benefit from raising the dark films of sorrow, hopelessness, and anxiety we all carry, so we can listen more clearly to the wise and well guidance for our lives.

Included is an Advanced Bonus Teaching that Rabbi Tirzah been asked to give, one that lays out the foundational premises of Ancestral Healing. You will also be guided in experiential practices to help you identify the disruptive ancestral legacies you are carrying and get help from wise and capable allies to resolve and transform them. Join us!

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Comox Valley Jung Society - A Talk with Rabbi Firestone
Jan
19

Comox Valley Jung Society - A Talk with Rabbi Firestone

Thursday, January 19, 2023
7-9pm Pacific | 8-10pm Mountain
Online event, open to the public

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all the generations of your ancestors.  All of them are alive in this moment.  

—Thich Nhat Hanh

The residues of ancestral trauma reverberate in civil society, our families, and even in our bodies. Today, the cultural wounds fostered by centuries of racism, colonization, and patriarchal abuses clammer for our attention. By bringing compassionate awareness to these historical knots of pain, beginning with our own ancestries, we can generate profound healing and transformation for ourselves and our families.

In this time of upheaval, change, and unparalleled possibility, our ancestors’ legacies of wisdom and resilience call to us to inspire and guide us on the path ahead. This two-hour online teaching with award-winning author, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, offers an experiential opportunity to explore the pressing work of transforming the legacies that have come to us from our own ancestors, as templates for the larger collective unconscious. She will employ premises rooted in Jungian psychology, neuroscience, and epigenetics, and share her own personal research with trauma survivors around the world.

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