Healing Intergenerational Trauma for Jewish People
May 9-12, 2025 in the Bay area, location TBC
Are you craving a highly experiential, potentially life-changing workshop where you get to address your family-of-origin issues in a small group Jewish body only environment?
PBSP Structures are: a highly collaborative, deeply experiential, profoundly transformative and innovative approach to healing relationship patterns.
Where we re-create the tableau of our childhoods in order to step into the deep longings and hidden wounds of our inner child.
And then re-imagine new possibilities that get somatically imprinted with the help of group members and a highly experienced facilitator.
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From Linda:
Over the last four years of offering deeply transformative small group workshops into the world, those with Jewish heritage have asked me for a Jewish-specific space where you could explore your inherited intergenerational patterns of survival. You may have recently learned about your Jewish ancestry. You may have been raised as a secular or as a religious Jew.
You may be at a nexus of wondering where the path leads next in terms of your own Jewish identity. Due to the current relational challenges within the Jewish community, we are asking that this space be for folks who identify as Jewish or have Jewish roots and who do not deny either the devastating impact of the Occupation and of the Gaza War upon the Palestinian people, nor the horror of October 7, 2023.
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Your facilitators:
Gus Kaufman [he, him], a senior trainer in Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor therapy, is a 78-year-old white, Jewish cis-man who is gay and has lived much of his life in the south. Raised Reform when it was quite ‘whited out,’ he can barely read the Hebrew alphabet, but is an at-large member of his childhood synagogue and belongs to an LGBT-founded synagogue in Atlanta.
We also acknowledge that the Jewish diaspora is not a monolith. We are from families that came at various times and from very different cultures. Our intention is to provide a space that allows us to wrestle with our individual, familial and cultural histories. This seems more necessary than ever in a time when so often people divide into ‘us’ and ‘them.’ We aim to honor the braided threads, each distinct, that can inform and enrich our experience of collective identity.
https://www.oakhurstpsychotherapy.com/gus-kaufman-jr-phd-1
Linda Thai [she, we], an integrative / multi-modality trauma therapist, is a 47-year-old
Vietnamese cis-het-woman and former child refugee who knows very well the
intergenerational impact of historical mass trauma, war and forced migration upon
individuals, families and peoples, and upon identity, memory and culture.
As someone who has been invited into the Alaska Native community to facilitate talking
circles on incredibly difficult topics related to the trauma of colonialism, she is aware of
the responsibilities that come with being a sacred invited outsider: the bringing of painful
conversations and an ability to navigate through them that would be too fraught for a
community insider.
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This workshop is capped at 8 participants.
Cost: $1,750 per person, with partial scholarships available.
Includes: Three nights of accommodation, all food, and two (optional) post-intensive group integration calls.
For more information about the experiential nature of this work and to fill in an
application form, please see this webpage.
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