The Peaceful Parent Project,

with Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning

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Discover a Practice and Community to Help You Show Up as Your Best Self with Your Children

Parent and Child
Parenting can be a beautiful, life-affirming journey—and it can also be deeply challenging. If you’ve ever found yourself reacting in frustration, putting your own needs aside, or just wishing you could parent with a little more ease, you’re not alone.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality is pleased to offer The Peaceful Parent Project, a six-session cohort program presented with our partners at Orot, to help parents bring mindfulness, compassion, and Jewish wisdom into their parenting lives.

The class supports and nourishes participants to become the parents they want to be, and to reshape and deepen their interactions and relationships with their children.

As a parent, do you:

  • Feel guilty when you are not your best self around your children?
  • Yell or react with impatience, irritability, and anger too often?
  • Feel overwhelmed, like nothing you’re doing is good enough?
  • Put your self-care on the back burner?
  • Want to get on the same page as your partner about parenting?
  • Want to connect with Jewish teachings and tools as sources of support and nourishment?

Do you wish you could:

  • Show up for your children with true presence and attention?
  • Give yourself permission to pause, take a break, and do some self-care to take care of YOU?
  • Integrate more Judaism and Jewish traditions into your parenting style?

Joining a Peaceful Parent cohort can help you:

  • Foster a nurturing community of peers to share challenges, find support, and learn to navigate the challenges of parenting
  • Cultivate more empathy and compassion for your children
  • Improve your capacity to pause and breathe before responding in the midst of a difficult moment
  • Enhance your ability to be gentle and forgiving with yourself as a parent
  • Gain a greater sense of connection to and nourishment from Jewish teachings and values
Parents and Child

Testimonials

I find myself doing much more deep breathing.

I also find that I am more mindful of the small gratitude in my children, in our moments together and around me in life….I wish the program went on FOREVER!

— Michele, Peaceful Parent Project Participant

The Peaceful Parent Project class helped me take a step back from all the day-to-day challenges and encouraged me to build stronger connections with my children during our busy lives. I liked being able to think critically about how my own interactions with my children could lead to better outcomes for all of us. In the midst of this very challenging year, I so appreciated the ability to explore parenting through the lens of Jewish texts and bring that wisdom to my daily life.

— Shira, Peaceful Parent Project Participant

Get out of your own way – this is the fastest and most affordable way to get on the same page as your partner regarding your parenting.

— Dan, Peaceful Parent Project Participant

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Meet Your Instructor

Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman

Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman is the cofounder and executive director of Orot.  Having taught in a variety of Jewish educational settings over the past 25 years, Rebecca cofounded Orot to open up Jewish wisdom to all who are seeking meaning and nourishment. Rebecca received a B.A. in Jewish Studies from Princeton University, a M.Ed. from DePaul University, and a M.A. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago with a focus on Modern Jewish Thought and the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig. Rebecca was a Joshua Venture Group fellow and was selected to be a part of the first cohort of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s new pluralistic rabbinic ordination program from which she will receive semicha. She lives in Deerfield, Illinois with her husband and three children.

Since 1999, IJS has been a leader in teaching traditional and contemporary Jewish spiritual practices that cultivate mindfulness so that each of us might act with enriched wisdom, clarity, and compassion. These practices, grounded in Jewish values and thought, enable participants to develop important skills while strengthening leadership capacities, deepening their inner lives, and connecting more meaningfully with others, Judaism, and the sacred.
Founded in 2014, Orot was started by a group of passionate Jewish educators committed to redesigning the paradigm of Jewish learning and opening up the well of Jewish wisdom to all. Orot creates programs which foster the wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities. Orot’s programs provide opportunities and offer tools for meaning-making, nourishment, and refuge using personally resonant and accessible Jewish teachings, practices, and experiences.