Counting the Days: Storytelling with East Side Jews

This event is part of Jewish Wisdom & Wellness: A Festival of Learning, April 26 May 3, 2015.

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Counting the Days will be an evening of storytelling and meditation centered on the theme of healing, specifically as seen through the dual lenses of humility and victory. The Kabbalistic tradition assigns each week of the Omer a theme, and within that week each day has an aspect. The 28th of April is the 26th day of the Omer, which is the day of Humility (hod) in the week of Victory (netzach). The process of healing is unpredictable and often lengthy; it requires that we surrender to the unknown as we move towards health and wholeness. The SIJCC community has a number of experienced storytellers, and were excited to draw on that group to create a lineup for the evening, as well as 9-time Moth Story Slam winner Bill Ratner.

To encourage new voices to participate as well, we will hold a storytelling workshop at the JCC prior to the event itself and hold half of the spaces in the lineup to be filled by people chosen at the event. As the last story of the evening, a community member to lead a breathing/meditation exercise encouraging everyone to turn inward and consider their own stories of humility and healing, victory and strength.

A Storytelling Workshop

Wednesday April 8

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Silverlake Independent JCC

1110 Bates Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90029

SIJCC Storytelling workshop

A storytelling workshop for people who are interested in learning how to craft and develop their voice through this ancient but renewed tradition.  There is no audience, just an opportunity to learn, and become comfortable with sharing your life’s experiences. Open to anyone. If interested, participants will have the chance to enter a story for Counting the Days: Strength and Surrender, an evening of Storytelling on Wednesday, April 29.

Space is limited for the Storytelling Workshop. To register, email zan@sijcc.net

To resigter for the event or for more information http://jewishwisdomandwellness.org/

Jewish Wisdom & Wellness: A Festival of Learning The Festival brings you together with health professionals, rabbis, and teachers from across the Jewish community to examine our traditions and their impact on your well-being. From April 26th to May 3rd, we invite you to attend our festival of FREE events, lectures, workshops, and experiential classes. From Jewish yoga to halachic bioethics and from assisting aging parents to healing services, we will help you build a toolbox of spiritual practices, physical activities and practical tools that can support your health and wellness within a foundation of Jewish wisdom and values.