Nesiyot Tovot : Good Journeys
Most of Recovery is spent in continuing care. The Tikvah Center is proud to offer the Nesiyot Tovot/Good Journeys Recovery Continuing Care Role-Playing Game (RPG) Group. Developed by Rabbi Menachem Cohen (as featured in Wired Magazine), this spiritual direction continuing care group offers growth, exploration, and healing through play. Participants develop their own character to play in this innovative RPG. The group runs for 6-weeks at a time. This group is open to anyone with at least 30-days of sobriety. People in long-term recovery welcome too!
When we play we temporarily step outside of the rules of everyday life, into a space referred to as the magic circle; a place where transformation happens. And we can learn about ourselves. Menachem learned a lot about himself while playing tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Now he plays similar games with people for growth, exploration, and healing.
In Nesiyot Tovot/Good Journeys we will play the indie game Dreamchaser.
To start, players will set Dreams, or goals, for their journeys of healing and recovery. Then they will create fictional characters and send them on adventures. This part will be all play. After play there will be time for players to process how what the characters experienced may be able to help them heal. Those who want to dig deeper, can schedule one-on-one sessions with Menachem outside of group time, for an additional fee. In those sessions they will take a deep and intimate dive into the growth, exploration, and healing they are experiencing.
Menachem Cohen has accompanied people on their spiritual journeys for more than 2 decades through spiritual direction and coaching and as the rabbi of Mitziut and Makom Shalom Mitziut. He received smicha/ordination from Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer, z"l, at Hebrew Seminary in Chicago and earned a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Institute for Pastoral Studies at Loyola University. He has been researching and using tabletop roleplaying games in his work for 7 years and first played one in 1979 (the D&D red box).
For more information about Menachem click here: https://linktr.ee/menachemcohen