Mikveh Guide Storytelling & Peer Learning

Wednesday, November 30 at 8-9pm ET / 7-8pm CT / 5-6pm PT

This virtual program is open to all current, former, and future Mikveh Guides. Come together with other Mikveh Guides around the world to share stories of transformation, healing, and growth as a result of facilitating this beautiful, ancient ritual. This space will open with featured Mikveh Guide storytellers, and then all participants will have the opportunity to share, reflect, discussion, and learn together. We look forward to welcoming you.

Register today! This webinar is FREE for Rising Tide Network Mikveh Guide members. For non-members, registration is $36. If you need financial aid, please email lucym@mayyimhayyim.org. Learn about Rising Tide Mikveh Guide membership here

Meet the Mikveh Guide Storytellers:
Aki Yonekawa — Interim Program Manager at Mayyim Hayyim in Boston, MA
Aki is a Jewish educator and camp enthusiast. Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to Cambridge to work at Gann Academy and experience the seasons everyone is always talking about. She has spent her life enjoying celebrating the Jewish calendar and making Jewish life fun and interesting for others. In addition to experiential education and traditional text study, she is interested in embodied Jewish practices which is what brought her to Mayyim Hayyim.

Allison Goldman — Mikveh Guide at MACoM in Atlanta, GA
Last summer, Allison served as the interim Mikveh Attendant at the Community Mikveh at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. She is an active member of her synagogue, IKAR, loves studying Torah, and leads a Rosh Chodesh circle using materials from At the Well. She recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she is facilitating a reading club and serving as a Mikveh Guide at MACoM.

Rabbi Abram Goodstein — Congregation Beth Shalom in Anchorage, AK
Abram Goodstein is the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom in Anchorage. Rabbi Abram stays quite busy as the only working Reform Rabbi in Alaska and Alaska is famously big. He believes that Judaism can thrive anywhere as long as Judaism thrives in Alaska. As a Rabbi he spends his time providing a creative and welcoming space for the Alaska Jewish community. As a husband and father he spends his time exploring the Alaska wilderness with his family. He also likes birding.

Steph Black — Mikveh Guide at Adas Israel Community Mikvah in Washington D.C.
Steph Black is a Jewish activist and writer based in D.C. where she fights to expand abortion access and reproductive justice. She writes newsletters, funds abortion, and shares information about self-managed abortion. Steph is a proud mikvah guide and educator, and delights in co-creating rituals with immerses. Read her writing, follow her work, and subscribe to her newsletter at stephblackstrategies.com.

Stay tuned for additional storytellers!