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The JWOC Resilience Circle experience provides a rooted, emergent, and intersectional leadership space for Black women and women of color to connect, rest, and explore their wellness as essential to the realization of equity, justice and liberation in the world
Launching its first Cohort in 2017, the JWOC Resilience Circle was created to establish a wellness and empowerment collective where Jewish women leaders of color would be encouraged and supported in prioritizing their wellbeing, rest and connection as their primary liberation and leadership strategy. Since 2017, Dimensions has launched two additional cohorts and cultivated numerous JWOC spaces where women leaders from multi-racial, multi-ethnic, cross-class, multi-gendered, diverse sexual orientations, differently observant, and intergenerational identities continue to gather to network and gain resources in celebrating their Being.
In 2022-23 the JWOC Resilience Circle will gather women leaders to explore rest and liberation from the systemic implications of Anti-Blackness and Anti-Black Racism. The curriculum for JWOC Resilience Circle Cohort III will be open to all women of color from multi-faith or non-faith traditions.
Across three retreats, women leaders are invited to develop a community practice for sharing their diverse narratives, revisiting their personal ecology, exploring their spiritual traditions, and valuing their diverse entry points to the work of deepening equity and justice.
JWOC Circles continue to represent the multiplicity of being that exists among women of color and include multi-racial, multi-ethnic, cross-class, multi-gendered, multifaith, and intergenerational Black and Brown Women.
The JWOC Resilience Circle experience has been described as a “one-of-a-kind” opportunity to build bridges and experience deep connection and community. The relationships formed within JWOC Resilience Circles have created a pipeline for the growth of a more vibrant, diverse, and intersectional community of women activist leaders who are leading all of us forward to a better future.
Launching its first Cohort in 2017, the JWOC Resilience Circle was created to establish a wellness and empowerment collective where Jewish women leaders of color could be encouraged and supported in prioritizing their wellbeing, rest and connection as their primary liberation and leadership strategy. Since 2017, Dimensions has launched cultivated additional cohort spaces where Black women and women leaders of color from multi-faith, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, cross-class, multi-gendered, diverse sexual orientations and intergenerational backgrounds can continue to gather, network and gain resources for celebrating their well-BEing.
In 2024-25 the JWOC Resilience Circle is a community of practice for Black women and more broadly identified women of color who are interested in exploring how rest and liberating themselves from the systemic implications of Anti-Blackness and Anti-Black Racism can change their lives. Across three retreats, women leaders of color are invited to develop and share wisdom from their diverse narratives, revisit their personal ecology, explore their spiritual traditions, and value the diverse cultural entry points to rest that inform BIPOC women’s collective work of deepening equity, justice and liberation within themselves and their communities.
The JWOC Resilience Circle Program provides Black women and women of color leaders with opportunities to heal, repair, and transform their minds, bodies, and souls. Transformation is experienced through retreats, community support, and educational resources. Healing and repair is galvanized through practices of accountability and reciprocity within our cohort experience. Sisters deepen their liberation by offering each other their vision of community love, mother-work, and self-care.
The cohort experience is a revolutionary and iterative process that provides women of color with opportunities for individual empowerment, community building, and leadership for systemic impact. To experience this gift of liberation and transformation, The JWOC Resilience Circle Program requires a 10-month commitment from all participants, and attendance to all the retreats is mandatory.
The JWOC Resilience Circle Program provides Black women and women of color leaders with opportunities to heal, repair, and transform their minds, bodies, and souls. Transformation is experienced through retreats, community support, and educational resources. Healing and repair is galvanized through practices of accountability and reciprocity within our cohort experience. Sisters deepen their liberation by offering each other their vision of community love, mother-work, and self-care.
| Pre Gathering | Virtual | Sept 8th, 2024 |
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Retreat I - Transformation
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Boston, MA
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September 24th - 27th 2024
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Relationship Building
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Virtual
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Oct 27th
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Retreat II - Activism
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Georgia
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November 10th - 13th, 2024
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Relationship Building
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Virtual
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December
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Regional Gatherings
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TBD
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(November - December)
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Retreat III - Spirituality
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Phoenix
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January 12th- 15th
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Relationship Building
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Virtual
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February
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Culmination
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TBD
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March 23rd- 26nd
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Interested in applying? Please find applications here
