Ann GFM

0:15 - 0:30 two years ago we started…we have had phenomenal success bringing together these historically divided communities

0:46 - 1:05 people are staying amidst the fear, the grief, the rage, and despair and they are listening to each other and feeling each other’s deepest pain, and ultimately they are responding in a way where they can see the humanity in the other rather than demonizing them

1:30 - 1:47 this group of leaders is committed to continuing. they believe in what we are doing together, they know it’s unique. they’re taking this work back to their families, their communities, their organizations, and they’re changing the narrative

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Samya

0:15 - 0:30 two years ago we started…we have had phenomenal success bringing together these historically divided communities

1:15 - 2:02 they hadn’t met since the war started, everything was deep chaos, extreme… and they are no longer able to see one another and to listen to one another… and basically everything is falling apart and I thought the next day people are not coming back… the next day people came back! [note - re-edit this clip down to 15 seconds]

2:15 - 2:30 that this group went through something that made it possible for them to stay…I am used to people leaving. I am used to that people don’t stay in such circumstances. Like to hear people tell you their truth that is so difficult to hold and to witness

2:53 - 3:08 despite all the chaos, all the difficulties, despite all the sorrow, all the grief - people stayed. And then real connection was possible - people could really connect.

3:16 - 3:30 no, people could connect to the ugliness, with the raw feelings and radical truth

4:30 - 4:45 this made me realize that what Ann is doing [fucking works]. And I want more of it and I want to discover how it is possible

4:48 - 5:03 to let people see the truth, exactly the way it is, and still choose to be together, and choose to meet and choose to listen and choose to connect

Uri -21

0:03 - 0:28 and Wow, meeting together, Palestinians and Jews, in Beit Jala, which is a Palestinian village, during the war, Wow, that is something that I’ve never done, and it was scary. It was scary to be there. And also to understand a little of how it is to live a life that is very distressed all the time.

1:04 - 1:41 We didn’t know if the Palestinians could hear our truth, and I don’t know if they knew whether we could hear their - each one has it’s own pain… and it was messy, it was shouting, it was really, really messy…. and we managed to overcome that and to process it

2:01 - 2:31 And even though I heard things that were really triggering and really hard to believe, about how the Palestinians see 7 October, and see us, this level of truth that happened between us - also we were able to tell them things that we never told them before. and created some level of truth, of honesty, of vulnerability that we never had

2:40 - 3:17 and we finished this module with lots of love between us and more understanding of the complexity… I’m sure that things look different from my eye. I can see when i look around, when i read the newspaper, when I talk to people, my perspective changed… i think differently

3:33 - 4:11 we are touching really deep core beliefs, emotions… and the interesting work of all the time going from the collective pain to the personal pain and back… and showing this personal pain to others, it’s a very vulnerable place, but it creates something, creates healing, it creates connection

Andulus

0:39 - 1:02 How to be truly be myself, first and foremost, so that I can see the other. I have never had a similar experience, where I can be who and however I am, without changing anything

1:24 - 1:45 so the program is changing me little by little, giving me a chance to be free from the things that tie me up. To be a stronger human, a better human, more aware of what is going on inside her

1:46 - 2:01 so I can contain the differences and the people who have different points of view. And to contain the complex situations that I live on a daily basis.

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Hagar

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