Healing Across Divides. Rebuilding Trust. Cultivating Peace.
Creating Safe Havens to Feel, Heal and Promote Change
As violence, fear, and uncertainty intensify, the need for spaces that support human connection across divides has become more urgent than ever.
The Army of Healers creates carefully facilitated spaces where people can process pain, build resilience, and reconnect across profound differences. Over the past two and a half years, we have brought together nearly 500 participants from Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank—including Jewish, Muslim, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian participants, Israelis and Palestinians.
We believe that pain that is not transformed is often transmitted—from person to person, from generation to generation, and from one community to another. Our work creates spaces where pain can be felt, witnessed, and transformed, helping interrupt cycles of fear, reactivity, and division.
One expression of this work is Mother Tongue, a joint Israeli-Palestinian group for mothers and babies, created in collaboration with other organizations. By bringing mothers and young children together, the group creates an early space for connection, belonging, and human encounter.
Our groups also include left- and right-wing participants, as well as women-only and men-only groups, creating spaces responsive to different experiences and needs. Participants are supported to listen and encounter one another beyond political, national, religious, and social identities.
Our Approach
The Army of Healers combines IFS-informed inner work with relational, somatic, compassionate listening, and Playback Theater. Participants learn to work with their inner parts, regulate emotional reactions, and access greater Self-leadership—making it more possible to remain present, curious, and connected across difference.
For more than 30 years, Together Beyond Words has helped people work with painful emotions, remain connected through conflict, and transform fear and reactivity into greater understanding and compassion. Since October 7, the Army of Healers has extended this experience into the urgent work of healing relationships fractured by conflict and polarization.
Our Goals for 2026–2027
Expand access to healing spaces. Open 10 additional groups, reaching approximately 200 new participants.
Deepen facilitator training
Provide 20 Israeli and Palestinian facilitators with a 120-hour training in using IFS skills and principles in group facilitation.
Build a lasting community, Through regular gatherings and events, sustain engagement among our groups graduates and strengthen a cross-community network committed to healing and constructive dialogue.
Provide ongoing support, A network of 80+ volunteer IFS therapists will support facilitators and participants, helping reduce burnout and sustain the work.
We aim to cultivate:
- Greater emotional regulation and reduced reactivity.
- Increased trust and willingness to engage across difference.
- More facilitators equipped to lead healing spaces.
- Sustained relationships across political, national, religious, and social divides.
- A growing culture of compassion, dignity, and coexistence.
In a reality where division is constantly reinforced, the Army of Healers offers another possibility: to slow down, feel what is true, listen deeply, and remember the humanity we share.
Together, we are transforming pain rather than transmitting it and cultivating the inner and relational conditions for healing, coexistence, and lasting peace.
