Join Sharsheret as we partner with Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, and welcome Maya Bernstein to lead us in this unique opportunity.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 8:00pm EDT/5:00pm PDT
When we process our cancer experiences, it helps us to heal. The job of processing is not an easy one. Everyone does it differently, and it often takes many tries and much time. Writing is one of the ways that many are able to process what they have been through, or are still going through. There is a long poetic history of writing about illness and trauma. The exciting thing is that you don't need to have any writing experience to join us for the opportunity to hear some poems that are sure to resonate with you, and to begin writing yourself! Join Sharsheret as we partner with Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, and welcome Maya Bernstein to lead us in this unique opportunity. No writing experience is needed to join us for this program.
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This webinar is generously supported by:
Merck, Novartis, and the Cooperative Agreement 24-0061 of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Maya Bernstein is the founding co-director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership’s Certificate in Facilitation at Georgetown University, and is the Director of Leadership Education at Yeshivat Maharat. A founder of UpStart, which brings bold Jewish ideas to life, Maya has consulted globally on leadership and innovation processes. She has released two albums of original music with Noah Solomon, and her first collection of poetry, There Is No Place Without You, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Her writing has been published in the Amethyst Review, On the Seawall, the Ekphrastic Review, Gashmius Magazine, The Lehrhaus, Niv Magazine, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, SWIMM Every Day, Tablet Magazine,Vita Poetica, and elsewhere. A 2012 Covenant Pomegranate Prize recipient, Maya holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, an M.Ed from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and a B.A from Columbia College. She serves as a board member at Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. Learn more about her at: mayabernstein.com
