Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022, 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference Only (learn more about videoconference)
Suggested Love Offering: $ 10.00
The Gathering: “Soul Journeys: Hearing our inner voice to heal sacred wounds and live as our most authentic selves.”
Facilitated by: Rabbi Rev. Haviva Ner-David and Rev. Sarah Bowen
Please join us for a conversation with Rabbi Rev Haviva Ner-David and Rev Sarah Bowen about Haviva's new (and third) memoir, Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi's Soul Journey —an intimate sharing of her transformative four years while studying at One Spirit. We will hear about Ner-David's journey from the first woman to publicly receive Orthodox rabbinic ordination to post-denominational interspiritual rabbi/minister, and use prompts from her memoir—especially relating to dreamwork, inner child work, and nature soul work—to explore our own journeys.
Facilitators
Rabbi Rev Haviva Ner-David
Haviva Ner-David is an ordained rabbi and interfaith-interspiritual minister, with a doctorate in philosophy and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She runs Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul, where she officiates ritual immersion ceremonies and offers group workshops. A certified spiritual companion with a specialty in dreamwork, she works with individuals and couples. Rabbi Ner-David is the author of two previous spiritual journey memoirs (Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Towards Traditional Rabbinic Ordination; and Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing and Brightening). Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey is her third. She is also the author of a novel, Hope Valley, and a guidebook for engaged couples, Getting (and Staying) Married Jewishly: Preparing for your Life Together with Ancient and Modern Wisdom (due to be published in 2022). Rabbi Ner-David is involved in peace work, promoting a shared society for Jews, Christians and Muslims in Galilee, where she lives with Jacob, her life partner of thirty-two years, their seven children, and their dog and cat. She also lives with a genetic muscular disease called FSHD, which has been one of her greatest teachers.
Visit Haviva’s website at http://www.rabbihaviva.com.
Rev. Sarah Bowen
Sarah A. Bowen is an animal chaplain, interspecies minister, and award-winning author. She teaches interspecies mindfulness practices, supports humans experiencing animal loss and grief, and advocates for exploited and endangered species within both religious and secular contexts. You can often find her huddled over wildlife struck by cars, giving them a sacred sendoff, or leading a Sunday Service at Compassion Consortium, the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies faith community. Sarah is a columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine and co-host of the Big Universe Show on Unity Online Radio. Her books include "Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice For Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, & Healing The Planet" (forthcoming Monkfish Publishing, Spring 2022), "Spiritual Rebel: A Positively Addictive Guide to Finding Deeper Perspective and Higher Purpose," and "Void if Detached: Seeking Modern Spirituality through My Father’s Old Sermons." As a member of Spiritual Directors International, the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, as well as several recovery and faith communities, she guides others in connecting with the higher power of their own understanding to reduce suffering for all living beings. She holds a BA in Human Ecology, MA in Religious Studies, was ordained by One Spirit in 2017, and is joyfully engaged in postgraduate research in Humane Religious Studies and Anthrozoology.
If you have questions about registering for this course, please contact One Spirit Learning Alliance by email to info@1spirit.org or call 212-931-6840.