How Can I Help?
Social Impact Strategy
Gatherings & Events
Facilitation
Curriculum Design
Social Neuroscience x Ethics
Teaching Mindfulness
A few things I work on these days:
Program & Event Design: At Up & Up Creative, our team takes on unique projects in need of high-level event design, curation, & production. Let us know if you have an event or corporate retreat coming up and would like to collaborate.
Teaching Meditation: As Faculty at Or HaLev, I teach mindfulness and meditation with an orientation toward Jewish mysticism on multi-day silent retreats, workshops, and online courses. As a steward of Or HaLev Brooklyn, I lead local NYC programs, including mini-retreats and weekly sits in collaboration with local partners.
Contempla. Newsletter (Formerly Shira’s Brain-Share): A revival of the irregular email newsletter about neuroscience, psychology, morality, and social impact that I started when completing the Harvard Mind, Brain, and Education master’s program. Originally created for family and friends, available for any other brain-science nerds out there. Re-launching with a new excitement, a new name, and inspiration from my recent experience at the Oxford Winter Neuroethics School. Click here to learn more and sign up.
Consulting & Fractional Roles: I’m currently working with inspiring impact organizations on overarching strategy, program design, and network engagement. I choose projects with intention and am open for discussions about high-integrity, values-aligned opportunities.
Words I live by
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”
“Friendship is so weird. You pick out a random human and you’re like this one. I want to go on adventures with this one.”
“Stay soft. It looks beautiful on you. ”