FORGIVENESS WORKSHOP:
Begin the New Year Feeling Empowered and Joyful
HEAL YOURSELF: From Emotional Pain, Anger and Resentments
This spiritual and experiential workshop will enable you to experience the transformative healing power of forgiveness.
• Let Go of the Past • Gain Peace of Mind • Be Free • Heal Your Heart • Heal Your Body • Experience Joy
Session 1: FORGIVENESS: Healing Emotions and Relationships
Session 2: FORGIVENESS: Opportunity for Emotional and Spiritual Growth
Recorded at Shaarei Tefillah Congregation, Toronto Canada, on Sept 1 & 3, 2015.
Presenter:
Chaya Sara Brand
LMSW • Psychotherapist • Life Coach • Educator
USA: 718-972-0087 • ISRAEL: 011-972-2-563-5878
www.chayasarabrand.com • chayasarabrand@gmail.com
• Master of Social Work degree from Yeshiva University
• Private practice
• Over 45 years international experience
• Facilitating emotional/spiritual healing and growth
• Expansive, eclectic approach
• Synthesizing Chassidut with psychology
• See Linked-In or Facebook for more info
● SYNOPSIS OF THE FORGIVENESS WORKSHOP:
This Workshop is helpful for anybody who harbours feelings of anger, resentment, blaming and judging of others. I think that means most people would benefit.
Forgiveness begins with an intention, sometimes, just wanting to want to want to forgive in order to let go of the pain. Forgiveness is connecting to the Divine within, and Divine in the other, to have empathy and compassion for your own pain or disappointment and yet after holding them accountable to find compassion for the other person’s wounded-ness.
Forgiveness is not about condoning the behavior or needing to reconcile. It is recognition that we all fail and fall. We all too often react because of our fears, needs, and misperceptions.
Humans are complex. We have a Higher or Divine Self (HS) and we have a Lower Self (LS) and we have the Adult self that I refer to as the Present Day Aware Adult (PDAA) that has the freedom and responsibility to choose our behavior.
Forgiveness means to me, the ability to choose (PDAA) to release the need (usually fear based) to hold onto the ‘story’ or drama with all its accompanying emotions and beliefs connected to the past. I can choose as a PDAA to withdraw my energy from the past and the dramas (LS) to be fully present. I choose to trust and accept that whatever happened (or happens), is an opportunity for healing and growth and is part of Higher plan. I no longer feel like a ‘victim’ (LS) with all my judgments resentments and grievances. I am truly free when I’m not trapped in the past.
Forgiveness is being At-one-ment:
1. at one in the present moment with self,
2. at one with the other,
3. at one with G-d’s Plan.
It is a place of love, compassion, acceptance, peace of mind, healed heart, empowerment.
Elul is the time and opportunity for healing by releasing grievances and resentments. Teshuva means to return to Hashem and to reconnect to your forgiving inner higher divine self.
● PRIVATE, ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTATIONS WITH CHAYA SARA BRAND:
Chaya Sara invites you to contact her for a free 25-minute consultation to determine if she can be a resource for you on your healing journey. But be sure to let her know that you are connecting with her as a result of the Jews for Judaism posting of her “Forgiveness Workshop”.
Chaya Sara Brand
LMSW • Psychotherapist • Life Coach • Educator
USA: 718-972-0087 • ISRAEL: 011-972-2-563-5878
www.chayasarabrand.com • chayasarabrand@gmail.com
● Listen to an interview with Chaya Sara Brand on the Zelda Young radio show, click this link:
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