Book review: Healing, embodiment, and IFS in Palestine
In a touching new memoir, Nitsan Joy Gordon tells the story of how growing up amid violence gave birth to a new form of peacebuilding — one that incorporates dance and movement, healing touch, and IFS. Here’s my review of the book.
In community with other Israeli and Palestinian women of all faiths, Nitsan Joy Gordon developed a unique peacebuilding method that blends movement and dance, improvisation, healing touch, compassionate dialogue, and Internal Family Systems. In a touching new memoir, Gordon recounts how the Together Beyond Words approach evolved from her own life. I reviewed the book for the new IFS online journal Parts & Self — take a look!
Book review: Together Beyond Words by Nitsan Joy Gordon - PARTS & SELF
In Together Beyond Words (Éditions du non-A, 2022), Nitsan Joy Gordon joyfully reflects on a life spent building peace amid the wreckage of trauma — a life’s work for which her own experience prepared her well. Born in an Israeli kibbutz less than a mile from the Jordanian border, where all the chil…
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