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Jory Hanselman Mayschak To Step Down After 8 Years of Visionary Leadership

Denver, April 15, 2024: BaMidbar announced today that founding CEO, Jory Hanselman Mayschak, has decided to step down after eight years of leadership, effective July 1, 2024. 

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August 2022 Newsletter

WHAT A SUMMER! Over the past 40 days, students embarked on a journey of self-discovery, hope, and healing in the Colorado wilderness. Students explored questions ...
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Words From the Wilderness | Entry #2

  Words From the Wilderness | Entry #2 By Arielle Aronoff, Lead Field Guide We hiked through fields of purple lupine, magenta fireweed, creamy pearly ...
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The sun sets over a mountain range with a cotton candy-colored sky. A row of tents and trees sit in the darkened foreground.

Words From the Wilderness | Entry #1

A Letter From Our Director Dear BaMidbar Community, Yesterday we welcomed students to the ranch for our summer wilderness therapy program. These students are embarking ...
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[Image Description] BaMidbar field team members walk along a tree-lined road.

June 2022 Newsletter – Meet the Summer 2022 Field Team!

40 Days in the Wilderness The BaMidbar Summer Field Team (meet them below!) is thrilled to be welcoming our students at the end of the ...
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Rose Savage Levenson, BaMidbar's Program and Operations Coordinator, is pictured with a group of wilderness first responder trainees. They are grouped together, smiling for the camera. Snowflakes are falling in the foreground.

Building Skills for the Wilderness and Beyond

By Rose Savage Levenson, Program and Operations Coordinator The rescuers made their way to my side, trying to figure out how to safely disentangle me ...
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May 2022 Newsletter – Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and BaMidbar would like to take the opportunity to extend sincere gratitude to our programmatic partners. During May Mental ...
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Creating Resilience through Ritual

In Fall 2021, the Jewish Teen Initiative (JTI) at Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and BaMidbar launched a nine-month Mental Health and Wellness Track ...
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Coloring and Coping

In Fall 2021, the Jewish Teen Initiative (JTI) at Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and BaMidbar launched a nine-month Mental Health and Wellness Track ...
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