Wisdom Circle: Intergenerational Trauma Healing for Practitioners

A Seven Month Journey

First Cohort: November 2022 through May 2023
The current cohort is closed.
To learn more about future practitioner cohorts, please sign up below.

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.

An invitation…

We are living through a time of rapid cultural transformation and urgent social and ecological needs. 

As psychotherapists and healing practitioners, we are being asked to respond to emergent calls for help at an ever increasing rate. 

While we may have many avenues for clinical training and personal therapy, we rarely have the opportunity to study ourselves and our clients in the context of intergenerational trauma legacies, a context which sheds light on the heightened reactivity and cascade of crises we are seeing on the political stage, in our communities, and on the earth. 

This is an invitation to join a small group for a deep dive into learning and personal growth. Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone will guide our journey with teachings from the fields of Jungian depth psychology, intergenerational trauma healing, and embodied ritual work. Together we will build a foundation for understanding personal, familial, cultural, and archetypal healing, in order to augment the healing modalities we already practice.

The work of intergenerational trauma healing is profound, challenging, and often life-changing.  

We will look not only at personal and familial trauma, but also at collective and cultural traumas that may have impacted our lineages, such as racial injustices, economic exploitation, patriarchal oppression, and loss of rootedness in the natural world.

Our goal is to create a crucible of deep personal healing and nourishment, and simultaneously expand our skills in doing group collective healing work.  

This group is for you if you are longing for professional support and enrichment in a sanctuary of peers, and if you yearn to transform intergenerational cycles of trauma and heartbreak into cycles of renewal and regeneration.

Our Commitments Include:

  • Obtain and read Wounds into Wisdom, our core text for this journey. A further list of articles, books, and films to study during our journey will be provided.

  • Keep a journal to record your dreams, practices, and reflections.

  • Maintain confidentiality.  We ask that you honor the personal stories you hear in our group.

  • Be accountable to the group and show up for our time together.  Let us know in advance of any unavoidable absences.  

  • You will be matched with a small group, based upon your interests, to meet with during our gatherings. You may also wish to meet with your group or a study partner in between gatherings.

OUR 7 MONTH JOURNEY

We will meet on the first Sunday of the month (with the exception of Jan 1st, New Year’s Day). We will alternate between 2-hour gatherings (at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 4pm Eastern) and daylong retreats (hours TBD). 

November 6 - Opening 2-hour gathering 

December 4 - 2-hour gathering 

January 8 - Daylong retreat 

February 5 -  2-hour gathering 

March 5 - Daylong retreat 

April 2 - 2-hour gathering 

May 7 - Daylong retreat 

June - August - Integration call, date and time to come 

Mutually Beneficial for Teacher and Student

Our financial economy tends to be extractive, and our social economy sometimes reproduces this. We don’t want to duplicate that here. We aim to create a group dynamic that is nourishing for all of us.  Let’s hold regeneration as our standard for how we work together.

We are asking for a tuition of $1800 and our team is happy to work with you if this rate is not aligned with your current budget.

We value cultural diversity and will prioritize scholarship for practitioners who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and for practitioners with lived experience of class and other systemic oppression. 

This is a pilot project. We will initiate the first cohort of 18 participants in November, 2022, and we would love to see you there.

If you have questions, please be in touch.

Interested in joining a future cohort?

Share your contact info below, along with a brief message about your interest in this program, and we will be in touch when the opportunity arises.