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From Narrowness to Strength: Celebrating Jewish Resilience This Mental Health Awareness Month
May 2, 2025
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time to break stigma, elevate voices, and champion emotional well-being. At BaMidbar, we are choosing to focus this month …
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What’s New at BaMidbar – March 2022 Newsletter
Office
March 24, 2022
Upcoming In-Person Retreats for Youth Professionals Are you looking to expand your skills as an educator and actively support your students in building mental health ...
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BaMidbar is Now an Independent 501(c)(3) Public Charity
Orijin Media
March 1, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Release Date: February 28, 2022 For further information, contact: Jory Hanselman-Mayschak, CEO of BaMidbar 720-835-2937 | JoryH@BaMidbarTherapy.org After six years as a ...
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Our Partnership with Prizmah
Orijin Media
March 1, 2022
BaMidbar is excited to share a new program partnership with Prizmah, the network for Jewish day schools across North America. School leaders and our communities ...
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The Torah Edict to Choose Life
Guest Author
January 28, 2022
How a powerful Torah quote from Deuteronomy helps one man make sense of his past struggles with substance use disorder and informs his recovery.
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Why Twelve-Step Meetings Are Rarely Held in Synagogues
Guest Author
January 28, 2022
Piercing the denial about addiction in the Jewish community and making the case for why we need to greatly expand the number of recovery meetings ...
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Upcoming Retreats for Youth Professionals
Office
January 20, 2022
Mental, Emotional, and Social Health for Experiential Educators (MESH-EE) Are you looking to expand your skills as an educator and actively support your students in ...
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Registration is now open for Summer Wilderness Therapy Programs!
Office
January 4, 2022
Apply Today for Wilderness Therapy @ BaMidbar When: June 30 to August 8, 2022 Where: Colorado BaMidbar’s Wilderness Therapy program is a 40-day immersive, wilderness-based, ...
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What a Year!
Office
December 22, 2021
As the BaMidbar team reflects on the last year, we are proud of what BaMidbar has been able to accomplish. Our growing team, and your ...
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Apply today! Wilderness Therapy Staff Application
Brett Hausler
December 3, 2021
Join a dedicated team of professionals this summer and make a difference in the lives of Jewish young adults. We are seeking outdoor professionals, Jewish educators, ...
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Giving Tuesday 2021
Office
November 30, 2021
This #GivingTuesday, will you help build a Jewish community that actively supports its members in cultivating mental health and wellness? Almost 30% of young adults ...
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Meet Our Newest Team Members … and We’re Hiring!
Office
October 8, 2021
We are so excited to welcome three new staff members to the BaMidbar team this fall! Please join us as we welcome Hayden Lilien as ...
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MESH-EE is Back!
Office
September 24, 2021
Jewish professionals are uniquely situated to create positive environments where not only Jewish learning, but also mental health and wellness, can flourish. The Mental, Emotional, ...
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Shehecheyanu!
Office
September 6, 2021
To Our Community, The Shehecheyanu is a Jewish prayer said to mark important occasions, and gives thanks to God for giving us life, sustaining us, ...
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WHAT A SUMMER!
Office
August 10, 2021
After a year and a half of virtual programs, BaMidbar opened its doors and returned to in-person, therapeutic programming in June 2021. Over 40 days, ...
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40 Days in the Wilderness
Office
June 17, 2021
Dear BaMidbar Community, For the first time in 15 months, today we welcome students back to BaMidbar for the return to in-person, immersive, wilderness-based therapy ...
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Mental Emotional and Social Health for Experiential Educators (MESH-EE) Fellowship
Office
March 4, 2021
Are you a Colorado-based Jewish communal professional looking to expand your mental health literacy and explore facilitation through the lens of social and emotional growth ...
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We’re Hiring!
Office
January 8, 2021
Join a dedicated team of professionals this summer, and make a difference in the lives of Jewish young adults. We are seeking outdoor professionals, Jewish ...
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Summer 2021 Mifne: Therapeutic Expeditions Registration Opens
Office
January 4, 2021
Mifne BaMidbar: Therapeutic Expeditions June 20th to July 29th, 2021 Registration is now open for Mifne BaMidbar: Therapeutic Expeditions for programs beginning June, 2021. Mifne ...
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BaMidbar 2020 Highlights
Office
December 29, 2020
It has been quite a year, and as the Yiddish saying goes, “People plan, and G-d laughs.” While 2020 did not turn out the way ...
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A Turning Point in Times of Darkness
Office
December 15, 2020
By Emily Heeren Image: Students on trail
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