Harmony Community Members

• Clinical Social Worker, Video and Nature Therapist, and Group Facilitator.
• 4 years of experience working with adolescents, children, and families in East and West Jerusalem.
• She worked in the Adolescent Unit of the Social Affairs and Welfare Unit in East Jerusalem, where she accompanied young men and women in distress and developed a therapeutic program that responded to their experiences in light of the deep gaps between parents, society, and official institutions.
• I worked at a mental health center in West Jerusalem with children, adolescents, and parents from Arab and Jewish backgrounds, within a therapeutic framework that did not always take into account cultural and linguistic differences. I facilitated and guided video therapy groups in Arab schools, focusing on self-expression, building confidence, and reclaiming personal narratives.
• She led nature therapy groups at a treatment center in Ein Yalu, where nature provided a space for calming, physical presence, and self-communication, and she continues to support these groups to this day.
• I recently started the Al Wajd Initiative – a nascent mobile therapy project that provides context-aware psychosocial interventions, with the goal of establishing an alternative community-based therapy center in the future.

• She loves wandering through nature in all its forms, especially moments of grounding and stillness.
• She practices yoga, loves extensive reading, and loves cinema, which opens inner windows for contemplation and understanding.
• - A love of simple rituals: the clinking of mate, walking barefoot, and honest gatherings without masks.
• - Looking for ways to return to the self, to be truly present outside of social performance, in a state of true presence.
• She believes that it is the small details that fuel her path of accompanying and supporting people.
• She speaks Arabic, English and Hebrew.

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