How Do We Respond To Crisis?

Most people and collectives do not know how to work through conflict in a generative way and most are overwhelmed by it. This helps people work through their experience of conflict and supports groups to work through it with practical steps. - Elena Mireles-Hill

Shiva Circle, a project of Shomer Collective, invites you to explore how this deeply beneficial practice enables mourners to sit with their grief, be cared for by a circle of comfort, and retreat from the responsibilities of daily life during the most heightened period of mourning. Download this guide to learn about the meaning of sitting shiva and the traditions for Jewish mourning rituals.