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Tikkun Olam – mending the world
Together we mend ourselves and the fabric of our community
“The fabric that is holding our communities together is tearing apart. In the fast paced confusion we live, we let disagreements quickly heat up and divide us and even separate us from ourselves and loved ones. We forget our deep interconnections and dependency. We sacrifice our complexity, kindness, humanity and compassion. Our divisions are causing us suffering, feeling of despair and hopelessness. Unless we pause and remember we are all in this together and work together, things will continue to be difficult. Let’s mend together.” Rabbi Sigal
One Conversation at a Time
Meet Listen Hear Mend
We call each other to connect and mend beyond limiting beliefs and cultural divides. We let our commonalities and humanity connect us to each other, to peace and to kindness. One conversation at a time. We learn about and appreciate our differences.
Mendful Path Method begins with the awareness of our interconnection to all people and between all things. Mendful is an action and a mindset. We skillfully journey on the Mendful Path to better navigate stress, cope with adversity, bounce back, and thrive! Together!
- Mendful is a mindset for living interconnected and in peace.
- Mendful Zones are spaces and times we practice mending in conversations and meditations. We share in deep conversations to heal our hearts and our community.
- Mendful path is living a life of peace, meaning and cooperation.
MENDFUL MENTORING (Link to Living the Mendful Life)
DERECH HA’TIKKUN (Mendful Path in Hebrew)
Contact us to schedule a consultation with Rabbi Sigal and to learn how to bring Mendful to your community or organization. Email us: ZigiZenCo at gmail MENDFUL MENTORING
The Mendful Mindset – living connected- helps us focus on expanding our awareness of interconnection to all people and between all things. A cluster of attitudes and beliefs that shape behaviors, relationships and life. The Mendful mindset calls us to venture outside of the known into the unknown mystery, learn, experiment and reconnect.
Mendful Zones are spaces and times devoted to learning, creating and practicing with art, mending meditations and mendful conversations. In the zones is where and when we meet ourselves and mend within, where we engage in meaningful conversations and re-connect with each other and the world. Learn the Mendful method in a retreat, workshop, group and individual mentoring.
We journey the Mendful Path applying mendful sensibilities in a process of learning and re-connecting. We mend disconnects, discontents, rifts, misunderstandings, separation and loneliness to come together to deepen peace and cooperation. Mendful includes mindfulness practice, but it’s not limited to individuals developing awareness and mindfulness within.
Mendful mindset is a cluster of attitudes and beliefs that shape behaviors, relationships and life. The Mendful Mindset calls us to venture outside of the habitual and known mind-frames into the unknown mystery of relating.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
Disconnects and sense of separation from each other and the world have to be attended to now. We live in cultural bubbles. Much of life today is mediated on impersonal apps. Many of us forgot the benefits of and how to connect in meaningful ways with others. We are not in touch with the joy and fulfillment we find in engaging unedited, flowing, spontaneous, deep and caring conversations. There is an ever growing polarization in societies causing us to have a diminishing ability to converse, empathize, be authentic and connect. We are quick to criticize, state our opposing beliefs and argue, while we are slow to open our minds and hearts to listen and reconcile.
Without conversing with the intention to mend, calling each other out of our isolation and resistance, it will get worse. Granted, it can be difficult to open and share with people we disagree with, dislike, or who have wronged us, but we must find ways to reconnect. Why? Because it’s dangerous to avoid listening and cutting ourselves off from the whole. It perpetuates personal and societal divides; growing animosity, separation and unhealthy tribalism. Our own personal health and the ability to enjoy peace, contentment and freedom is deeply compromised.
Rabbi Sigal
Mending Our Disconnects and Feeling of Separation
Without mendfully conversing, to call each other out of our isolation, it will get worse. Even though it’s difficult to openly listen and be with people we disagree with and dislike, we must. Because it’s dangerous not to listen to those who have opinions we don’t like and perpetuate the societal divides.
We live divided in antagonizing cultural and political divides and bubbles. Much of life today is mediated on screens. Many of us forgot the benefits of and how to connect in meaningful ways with others in person. We are not in touch with the joy and fulfillment we find in engaging unedited, flowing, spontaneous, deep and caring conversations. There is an ever growing polarization in societies causing us to have a diminishing ability to converse, empathize and connect. We are quick to criticize, state our opposing beliefs and argue while we are slow to open our minds and hearts to listen.
Humans have a real need to be connected in realtime and real physical space, authentically and freely. The positive effects of authentic social interactions have been shown to increase happiness, life satisfaction and oxytocin levels (those are the feeling well and connected hormones.) When we meet, listen to, empathize and learn from each other we all benefit from the power of human connection and caring. There are progressively fewer places where we feel safe and fully welcome where we can go to the edge with people who are not in our cultural milieu. Many of us are making decisions born in fear and scarcity, and not of love, kindness and concern for all humans. All and all we are becoming more defensive, protective, argumentative, combative, lonely, fearful and polarized.
We invite you to join us on the Mendful Path. We share in the hope for peace and care of all people.
Four Guiding Posts on the Mendful Path
- Intend to Mend –We are all humans and we are all in this together. Remembering we are interconnected, we treat everyone with kindness and tenderness. We are forgiving and open to sharing different perspectives. We stay attuned to our feelings while we remain open to others and let them have their own experience. Authenticity and openness take time to cultivate and change is slow. We are willing to remain open in the mendful exploration.
- The Mendful Zone– Feeling safe, seen, heard, belong and connected are important. The mendful zone is where we meet heart to heart and mend within and with each other. A sacred container where we are free to be honest and caring toward one another and ourselves. In Mendful Zones we set the right conditions, a safe environment, where mending conversations can easily unfold. We define the parameters of time, space and basic guidelines to help participant feel at-ease and open.
- Inner Mending– We use contemplative methods, mindfulness, guided relaxations and meditation to cultivate a receptive and open inner posture of heart and mind. Specific methods are used to enhance individuals’ ability to feel within, open to insights which encourage one to go to the edge, connect, mend and share with others.
- Go To The Edge – With more safety and trust we are better able to skillfully and courageously explore the edges within ourselves and with others. The more settled we feel the less triggered we are and as a result we are better able to tolerate the discomfort that comes with difficult feelings, new perspective and contradictory opinions, beliefs and situations. Slowly, step by step, stitch by stitch, We grow our ability to listen and speak our hearts’ truths and allow them to transform us and our relationships.
A human being is a part of the whole we call universe, a part limited in time and space. S/he experiences her/himself, her/his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
MENDtations
Guided Meditation
Rabbi Sigal shares guided meditations and contemplations to help focus, see clearly, and cultivate the ground for mending within and with others. MENDitations for mending body, heart, mind and soul.
Contact us to schedule a consultation with Rabbi Sigal and to learn how to bring Mendful to your community or organization. Email us: ZigiZenCo at gmail MENDFUL MENTORING