Announcing … our first ever Tu b’Av Festival!

Building on the theme of Self-Love & Liberation, the key questions guiding this year’s online festival are: How do we experience Judaism through our bodies? And how is our experience of Judaism affected by the bodies we’re in?

LOTS more details to come!

UPDATE: Full info on this page!

Registration opens July 20.

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Interested in being a sponsor? Want to teach a workshop or embodied practice session? Get in touch! Email festival (at) mitsuicollective.org

Confirmed Teachers

We are so excited to have the following confirmed teachers and presenters joining us to lead sessions & workshops ranging from racial identity and somatic experience to body liberation and body positivity; wilderness therapy, somatic awareness & Jewish spiritual practice to reclaiming & re-envisioning masculinity … and so much more! 

April Baskin — Joyous Justice
Catherine Bell — Catherine Bell Consulting
Dor & Ophir Haberer — Embodied Brotherhood Facilitators
Jory Hanselman — BaMidbar Wilderness Therapy
Samia Mansour — jHUB Cleveland
Samantha Vinokur-Meinrath — @akiva Adolescent Initiative at Jewish Education Center of Cleveland
Sara Kupfer — Fit Jewess
Talia Cooper — Talia Cooper Coaching
Zack Finer — ApeCo Movement School

Plus! The one and only Molly Wernick (Camp Nai Nai Nai, Camp Galil) as our Virtual Campfire MC!

Stay tuned — we’ve got more teachers on the way!

Gotta know more???

Here’s what else we’ve got to share so far:

Mitsui Collective’s Tu b’Av Self-Love & Liberation Festival is a pilot program centered around a multi-stage platform for live experiences, learning, and tool-sharing centered around love and care of self and cultivating personal resiliency as a justice-oriented spiritual practice. We’ll have a full slate of embodied Jewish movement and mindfulness sessions, workshops, roundtable discussions, and community building beginning the morning of August 5 and continuing throughout the day, culminating in a fun evening of song and celebration.

The festival is intended to fill a much needed opportunity to nourish individuals across the spectrum of Jewish life and particularly those who have been on a myriad of frontlines working for justice. Simultaneously, this program is intended to center voices long marginalized in Jewish life and particularly in areas of embodied practice and self-care, and to catalyze important conversations that will guide more equitable and anti-racist approaches to this work as it continues to evolve.

Some of our goals:

  • Gather virtually from far-reaching locations for immersive experience of nourishing Jewish movement, learning, and large-scale community building;
  • Strengthen and expand your toolkit for self-care and self-understanding;
  • Identify & highlight embodied Jewish practitioners & orgs interested in investing in and helping grow the space particular through lens of anti-racist and anti-oppression frameworks;
  • Center marginalized voices in inclusion of presenters and teaching materials / resources, particularly those of Jews of Color and Queer / LGBTQ identified orgs and practitioners;
  • Catalyze conversation on Judaism & Jewish approaches to self-care, self-love in areas including (but not limited to):
    • Healthy and nutritious movement
    • Racial identity & experience
    • Queer / LGBTQ identity & experience
    • Health at every size / body positivity
    • Nature connection and accessibility
    • Self-care, self-preservation, and self-indulgence — interrogating the distinctions and subsequent roles of each in our spiritual and justice-oriented work;

Is this right up your alley? Want to be involved? Get in touch!! festival (at) mitsuicollective.org

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