The True Encounter Above the Courage Line

The True Encounter Above the Courage Line

I’d written to members of my community: “As ‘Bridge Builders’ our task, now more then ever, is to support each other in shaping a world where the relational space is safe and sacred, where we honor the ‘Other,’ and where together we create the conditions for the...
The Freedom of Getting off the Wheel

The Freedom of Getting off the Wheel

“On Tuesday I got off the wheel” is the last line of a poem by Mark Nepo titled Thinking like a Butterfly. It was given to me by a friend after I told her the following story: Eleven years ago, a TV series was shown on Israeli TV. It was called Couples Therapy. It...
Bridging the Gap With the “Third Option”

Bridging the Gap With the “Third Option”

“Help us!” says one of the sisters to my friend Penny following the 2016 election. “The conflictual division that has occurred since the elections has devastated our family emotionally,” says one of eight sisters in a family where there is a gap in the middle; four...
The Circular Learning Model

The Circular Learning Model

Most often we think of learning as a linear process. But there is another way to visualize learning. It is the Circular Learning model. According to the Circular Learning model we do not learn in a linear fashion, but rather in increasingly larger and larger circles....