Counting the Omer
A collective journey toward liberation
This seven-week journey re-imagines the ancient ritual of counting the Omer as a practice of collective transformation. Each week offers a theme drawn from the Exodus story and grounded in the needs of our time. Each day offers a question — not just for personal reflection, but for group dialogue, organizational discernment, and community resilience.
This guide is for
- Teams, coalitions, communities, and groups who are crossing thresholds and leaving behind what no longer serves
- Groups facing burnout and ready to reorganize power
- Those doing justice work and seeking spiritual grounding
- Anyone reimagining leadership in a world on fire
- Communities preparing for something sacred and unknown
Whether you're a collective of organizers, a spiritual community, or a group of friends committed to co-liberation, these questions are here to help you deepen your connections, clarify your direction, and cultivate a movement culture rooted in care, courage, and awe.
How to use this guide
- Use it as a weekly check-in. Start your meetings with one of the daily questions. Rotate facilitation. Let different voices lead.
- Pair it with ritual. Share a song. Ground in silence. End with breath.
- Let it live in your work plan. Use the weeks to scaffold a team retreat, a seven-week transformation cycle, or a values alignment process.
- Adapt and share it. These questions aren't dogma — they're invitations. Make them your own. Translate them. Remix them. Share them with others.
The seven weeks
Use this. Make it yours.
Please use them. Adapt them, bring them into your own communities, make them yours. That's what they're for.
And if something here was useful to you — I'd love to hear about it. Tell me what you tried, what it opened up, what you'd change. If you share it further, attribute it back to me. And if you're able, pay what you can. These take real time and real care to make, and your support is what lets me keep making them.
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About Alison
Alison Avigayil Ramer spent over twenty years working alongside activists — including more than fifteen years living and working with Palestinian communities in Israel and Palestine — and inside institutions like the UN, governments, universities, and corporations, advancing human rights policy. After October 7th she co-founded the Social Change Sanctuary and the Jewish Diaspora Movement, communities dedicated to liberatory spiritual practice. Today she works as a coach and consultant to individuals and organizations navigating these times and is training to become an interfaith rabbi in the lineages of Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and Shomeret Shalom, and the Torah of Non-Violence. She frequently writes Hodaya: A Journal of Grief & Gratitude and is currently working on a forthcoming book about living in a ceasefireless world.
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