ABSTRACT
A colleague brought in a newspaper article from the Los Angeles Times about me and other women engaged in interfaith activities, Muslim and Jewish women worshiping together. This chapter focuses on the experience and reflections of two senior women, and their experiences of a very special, somewhat large subgroup, which formed itself during Belgirate III. One week after the Belgirate conference, Shahin Sakhi, MD, directed a conference in Los Angeles after a two-year hiatus. It was amazing for me to witness him, an Iranian psychiatrist who had become passionately involved in this work while a resident at the UCLA psychiatry training programme, take up his first role as director. He had resurrected the conference developed by Kathryn west and others at UCLA, and put his own spin on the work. He has witnessed the struggles of large group and intergroup relations in his younger days in Iran, and he sees the struggles in Iran through a group relations lens.
