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Update #3: A Successful Retreat

Posted on February 19, 2010

Our retreat in the West Bank was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who donated to make it possible. We have a lot of photos, videos, and blog entries from the trip.

Flickr Slide Show of Retreat:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/icirclework/sets/72157623316305555/show/

Blog Entries:

> The Retreat in Palestine

> The End of Our Journey: Looking Back

> Healing for Women in the West Bank

Videos:

> The Voices of Palestinian Women: Madiha

> The Voices of Palestinian Women: Maha

> The Voices of Palestinian Women: Majida

Update #2: thank you, thank you, thank you

Posted on January 17, 2010

To all of you that pledged money to support our project to create our circle in Palestine, we are ever grateful for your support. Please visit our website, www.instituteforcirclework.org, at any time for updates. Blessings, Jalaja

Update #1: Thanks for your generosity ...

Posted on December 28, 2009

... we've reached $3,000! With only $1,000 to go and 18 days to go, we are increasingly hopeful that we will reach our goal of $4,000 to fund the first women's Circlework retreat in Bethlehem. We are so grateful to all of you who have supported this groundbreaking project thus far.

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This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 15, 2010.

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We'll send you a 50 min audio interview with Jalaja Bonheim, Founder and Director of the Institute for Circlework PLUS her 60 min CD Three Guided Meditations!

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We'll bring you some healing water from Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ!

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Receive a handwritten card from one of the Palestinian women participating in our circle, written in Arabic, with English translation.

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Receive a copy of each of Jalaja Bonheim's four books and three CDs, including the rare, out-of-print, stunningly gorgeous coffee table book Goddess A Celebration in Art and Literature. PLUS a ten page excerpt from her forthcoming book Living in Peace A Vision of Hope for Humanity!

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Jalaja Bonheim

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Jalaja Bonheim is the founder and director of the Institute for Circlework ( www.instituteforcirclework.org ). She’s the author of four books, and is now writing a new book called Living in Peace: A Vision of Hope for Humanity.

As a Jew raised in post-war Germany, she’s dedicated her life to peace and reconciliation work, as well as to the empowerment of women. She’s been leading circles and training circle leaders for over twenty years.