Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Use storytelling to express themselves. Demonstrate appreciation of themselves, each other, and the Shevet group as a whole. Identify learnings, growth, new perspectives, and/or behaviors they want to take from their experience in Shevet this year.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Discuss achievement culture and its effect on teens’ mental health. Examine approaches to perfectionism from religious and psychological sources. Brainstorm about how to respond to the pressures associated with achievement culture.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Discuss achievement culture and its effect on teens’ mental health. Examine approaches to perfectionism from religious and psychological sources. Brainstorm about how to respond to the pressures associated with achievement culture.
Overview: A person’s life has three phases: the phase when their body develops, the phase when their thought develops, and the phase when their deeds develop. — Tikkune Zohar, Tikku, 19, 67a. Maimonides believed that internal balance was essential for living a healthy and spiritually attuned life. That is, a person must take care of…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Recognize some of their personal identities. Consider how others can make assumptions about us based on our identities. Explore how identity norms can be challenged and can change over time.
Facilitator’s Tip: It’s worth noting to your participants that this session looks at how female gender norms impact the friendships we form. We recognize that all teens, including nonbinary teens, are also impacted by female gender norms, and we may use the term “girls” or “teens” interchangeably to reflect this. Please see our Best Practices for…
Facilitator’s Tip: This session has been adapted from our all-genders Kulam curriculum. It can be used as written here, combining the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups into one for this session, or it can be used separately with the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups, as you prefer. If using the session separately with the Rosh…
Facilitator’s Tip: This session has been adapted from our all-genders Kulam curriculum. It can be used as written here, combining the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups into one for this session, or it can be used separately with the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups, as you prefer. If using the session separately with the Rosh…
Last updated October 23, 2023. Educational Objectives: For teens to feel connected to and supported by other Jewish teens at this time. For teens to have the opportunity to share their thoughts and feelings in response to the massacres, kidnappings, and war in Israel. For teens to reflect on how they can take care of…
Facilitator’s Tip: This session has been adapted from our all-genders Kulam curriculum. It can be used as written here, combining the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups into one for this session, or it can be used separately with the Rosh Hodesh and Shevet groups, as you prefer. If using the session separately with the Rosh…
