After Seder: Processing Grief & Moral Injury
This Passover, many experienced moments of tension, disconnection, or moral dissonance within their families and communities.
This gathering is a space to pause and tend to what arose: the grief, the rupture, and the deeper questions of belonging and integrity.
It is designed for those who experienced pain, dissonance, or rupture connected to pro-Israel or Zionist perspectives within their families or communities.
It will be led by Alison Avigayil, a certified wellness coach specializing in family and community estrangement due to politics and morality. She also has 20 years of experience with her work focused on Jewishness, Israel and Palestine.
Interfaith Community Led Collective Mourning
Join the Social Change Sanctuary for our monthly 90-minute gathering.
We will bring together movement chaplains, spiritual leaders, artists, and grief tenders from different faiths and backgrounds -- scientific and spiritual.
We will listen to music, poetry and stories from different faiths and cultures. Sing, move, & create art to help regulate our nervous systems together.
We will also create space to witness and share our experience of grief and gratitude, and how we are moving through these times together.
We welcome those who would like to share their own practices as well.
Learn more here: www.socialchangesanctuary.org/events
October 7th Vigil
Recommit to coresistance to the genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and the abandonment of Israeli hostages.
Together we will mourn the profound loss we have been witnessing daily and nurture our hope for a shared future and collective liberation.
We’ll meet at “The Keyhole”, north of the Eucalyptus grove near the public restrooms. Find ‘Albany Waterfront Trail’ on Google maps and look for a purple flag
Total walking distance 1.5 miles. Parts of the path are not wheelchair accessible.
Good Mourning - Resilient Heart Artivism Practice
✨ GOOD MOURNING ✨
Every Friday | 8–8:30 AM PST | On Zoom Free & open to all
A gentle, grounding ritual to face the world together.We share news with care, drop into music, make art, and commit to small actions — all in community.
No art experience needed, just a willing heart.Let’s mourn, make, and move forward — together.
Interdependence Day
As democratic structures erode and violence reshapes our world, we believe the antidote lies not only in resistance, but in relationship. Not just in strategy, but in solidarity. Not in isolation, but in interdependence.
That’s why we gathered for Interdependence Day—a day-long experience devoted to building community with others committed to shaping a more connected, life-affirming future.
We welcomed the full complexity of this moment. Amid climate catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and widening economic inequality, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and alone. Loneliness, as former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has noted, is more than a feeling—it’s a public health crisis. Chronic disconnection increases the risk of disease and death as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It also fragments our ability to respond effectively to the polycrisis we face.
Interdependence Day—co-created by HAPPI, Social Change Sanctuary, and Divine Mother’s Love—offered a practice ground for the world we long for. It was a space to grieve and imagine, to connect and collaborate, to be as we are while becoming something new together.
Soul Play
SoulPlay is an invitation to explore your essence. Join me! I’ll be at Soul Play working as a member of the Soul Support team.
Expect dynamic, immersive experiences where self-discovery, connection, and transformation are woven into each moment. With workshops, community celebrations, music and dancing, connection, and of course PLAY, our experiential playground is full of opportunities to positively impact your life!
SoulPlay is an alcohol and substance free event.
We strive to create containers through which we can all be our fully expressed selves, practicing being fully present while connecting, learning and playing in community. The depth, joy and playfulness we dream of is only realized if we are all included, welcomed and celebrated. We are continually working as an organization and as a community to support this vision.
More information at: www.soulplay.co
Kol Retreat - Grief & Gratitude Song Circle
Join me and a group of gorgeous musicians singers song writers and joyful souls for a beautiful weekend of community building with @kolretreat May 9 - 11th at @urbanadamah.
You’re invited to join me and Jaco Cohen, @myhumblepower, for a workshop where we will learn songs that help people move grief to gratitude and back again.
This unique participatory retreat brings together singers, musicians, and learners of diverse backgrounds and ages to explore both ancestral and modern Jewish music.
Everyone is a learner, everyone is a teacher. Together with our faculty teachers, we will co-create the weekend. Bring your songs and spirit to share. We are committed to making space for Jewish and non-Jewish people of all backgrounds and intend to include a diverse array of music cultures. We sing and play for our love of healing, community and liberation, and to ground and elevate ourselves.