Honeycomb Project

By Rabbi Eryn London

THE Honeycomb Project is a joint initiative between Liberal Judaism and The Movement for Reform Judaism to increase volunteer training and wellbeing resources across the movements.

Since its start in September 2021, it has led volunteer training courses, bereavement support courses, a peer support group for volunteer care coordinators and has created Jewish holiday and wellbeing materials.

Having most programs on Zoom allows for people to be able to participate no matter where they might be located in the country and no matter how large or small their community might be.

The courses are there to help upskill community members in the amazing work that they are already doing, and allow people to connect and learn best practices in the ways in which we help care for our communities. It has also allowed for congregations to share resources in ways that they are able to use to offer support to their members.

We have an active Facebook page, where we not only share Honeycomb Project events and publications, but also try to spread the word about other public events and articles around topics of care and communities. Please follow us.

We have just restarted our volunteer care coordinator support group. This takes place monthly at 7:30pm on a Wednesday. To register, please visit www.tinyurl.com/carecoordinatorsupport

The Honeycomb Project is also very excited to host Care Conference 2023, which will be taking place on 11 June at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue.

This day-long conference is open to all and will be a wonderful event full of learning and skill development in areas around care. We have a great line up of speakers including our keynote Barbara Altounyan, who is the founder of Stories for Life. Other workshops will include Jenny Patterson on loneliness and isolation in older adults; Jewish Care presenting on chronic and long-term illness; Bette Fraser and Bobbi Reisel speaking about communal bereavement support; Liz Wise from APNI speaking about perinatal mental health; and much more! To register, please visit www.ti.to/MRJ/mrj-lj-honeycomb-careconference-2023

Please also keep an eye out for more upcoming Honeycomb Project events and programmes over the coming months. If you have any questions or want to learn more, please send us an email at honeycomb@liberaljudaism.org