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Palestine

West Bank Trauma-Informed Waldorf Teacher Training!

Thanks to a generous grant from the British Shalom Salam Trust, reGeneration, and our partner school, House of Hope Vision School, were privileged to host a multi-day teacher trauma-informed Waldorf and NonViolent Communication training course.

Access to trauma-informed teacher training is very limited in the West Bank. House of Hope is a training hub for teachers seeking new professional skills for nurturing Palestinian students exposed to many Adverse Childhood Experiences.

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Press Release: Groundbreaking Research Identifies Opportunities to Increase Educational Equity in Israel

Today is a historic day. We are announcing the results of our 21-month study of the systemic barriers that prevent children in Israel from accessing trauma-informed education. In our press release below, learn more about our research and platform for peace through trauma-informed education.

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reGeneration Partners with first Waldorf School in West Bank

reGeneration Education is excited to announce its newest partner in the Middle East! Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community and commitment to nonviolence, House of Hope is an Arabic-language, trauma-informed elementary school in the West Bank village of Al Eizariya. It is also the only emerging Waldorf school in the West Bank.

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reGeneration announces the Interfaith Pilgrimage for Possibility

The Rev. Canon Dr. Gwynne Guibord, Imam Jihad Turk, Rabbis Victor and Nadya Gross and Shepha Schneirsohn Vainstein, LMFT invite you to join us on this historic interfaith journey to the Holy Land.  In addition to focusing on the sacred sites of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, we will visit visionary educational communities in Israel and the West Bank.

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    Transforming the Holy Land

    Fear presents a choice whether we recognize it or not: to love or to hate. If we choose to love, we have sparked the first flame of creation. We are propelled into right action. House of Hope is honored to partner with reGeneration to continue our right action and bring transformational healing through holistic education to children in the Holy Land.”

    – Milad Vosgueritchian, co-founder and Chairman of reGeneration partner school House of Hope
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    Uniting Communities

    With reGeneration, we created a Waldorf School based on the beauty of Arab culture and language, which also teaches Hebrew and English. It is a school where all the different religions and cultures of Arab people are represented and work together: Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Bedouins. The idea of bringing all these children together in one school is not the norm...but it is a model for how to integrate Waldorf education into the Arab culture.”

    – Lana Nasrallah, cofounding teacher of reGeneration partner school Tamrat El Zeitoun
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    Training Crisis-Zone Ready Teachers

    Before I became a Waldorf teacher, I taught in public schools where the children rarely leave their desks. The Arab children especially have problems holding their pencils because they move their bodies so little…Thanks to my reGeneration scholarship, I became more sensitive about the need for children to be held in a protected space. Upon my return to school, I plan to find a way to build a separate area for our young children, so they have a more sheltered space than what they have now.”

    – Aida Awad, a founding teacher at reGeneration partner school Tamrat El Zeitoun
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    Two Peoples, One School

    At Ein Bustan we are two peoples, two languages, two different cultures. Yet when I bring my children to the kindergarten in the morning and see the children sitting, playing, building, singing, hiking, eating and working together, they are equal, and it’s not make-believe. This togetherness and the mutual wish to create a joint reality is what brought my family to the kindergarten. At school, we are all equal, and we all have a heart that can speak, listen, and be compassionate.”

    – Ester Springut, a parent at reGeneration partner school Ein Bustan
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    Encountering the Other

    reGeneration brought The Way of Council to our bilingual Arabic Hebrew school. The Way of Council is a way to become aware that the person sitting across from me is a person just like me, who was born an empty vessel, and whom life has filled with different content, which is not necessarily the ultimate truth. I could have been born as Muhammed or Fatma, and I would then think as they do. So I think that within me I am actually a little bit Muhammed and a little bit Fatma, a little bit Amir or Rachel. And a little bit Gidi.”

    – Gidi Hyman, a teacher at reGeneration partner school Ein Bustan
    Gidi