Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/09/2024
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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L&SD

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Free USD
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Organization:
Mira, Colin, Olivia, and Robyn

Brooklyn, NY

This event has a suggested minimum donation of $25 to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund’s (PCRF) Gaza Relief and Recovery Campaign at our Witnessing Circle fundraising page here.

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On October 9th, we gather to support each other as we enter another year of this genocidal war against the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli Government and their allies. We open this space as an opportunity to acknowledge and share the wounds we are carrying, as well as to confront feelings of culpability among those of us who feel we’ve been made accomplice to the unjustifiable violence we witness daily.

We are forming this witnessing circle with the aim of building community with fellow humans whose hearts cannot bear this grief alone and who want to see one another and take action, together.

Doors open at 7pm and a delicious, healthy meal will be available for purchase for $10 at 7pm before the Witnessing Circle begins.

Some themes that will be explored:

• What is weighing heaviest on your heart right now?
• How has life changed for you since the most recent outbreak of violence?
• Have you changed, and in what ways?
• What do you wish you could do in this moment? What’s stopping you?
• Who and what has been sustaining your soul? How can we embody more of that, individually and in community?
• How have different aspects of your identity informed the way you are experiencing this trauma? Have they informed how you are responding?
• What are our hopes for the various religious/spiritual (Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Psychedelic, Raver/Dance community etc.) communities we belong to in response to this genocide?
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  This witnessing circle will be led by Mira Abou Elezz, a board-certified chaplain who has been providing spiritual care in various settings since 2016 and co-facilitated by Colin Pugh, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society. Mira Abou Elezz is currently a staff chaplain at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is specialized in interfaith oncology chaplaincy. Her chaplaincy is rooted in a mystical Islamic spirituality that continues to expand and evolve. She is dedicated to getting to know God through getting to know others and is nourished in the work she does as a chaplain and as a mother to two young children.