Who's Using It
75+ schools and counting
Schools across the United States and internationally have partnered with Atzmi to help their girls discover their Best Self.
Our Flagship Program
An empirically-designed, Torah-grounded curriculum that builds self-compassion, body acceptance, and resilience in Jewish Orthodox girls.
Already in use at 75+ schools across the U.S. and internationally.
The most effective prevention reaches girls, parents, and educators together. The My Best Self Project is designed to be facilitated by your school's own trusted educators or mental health staff — not outside speakers.
Hands-on, stand-alone interactive workshops at key middle and high school milestones — 8th, 10th, and 12th grade. Four one-hour sessions per grade, ideally one week apart.
Seminar on understanding body image and eating disorders, avoiding common pitfalls, creating a health-based focus at home, and identifying when a daughter is struggling.
The prevalence of body image and eating disorder issues in our schools, how to identify and address weight stigma, signs and symptoms of eating disorders, and how to create healthier classroom spaces.
Focus: Our innate value, self-compassion, thoughts and feelings, the appearance ideal, body image, and identifying personal strengths.
Each workshop is one hour. 4 sessions per grade. Ideally scheduled one week apart. Total: 12 hours over middle & high school.
“Maintaining a healthy and whole body is an integral part of one's Divine service.”
The My Best Self Project draws from Gemorah, Rishonim, and contemporary Hashkafic and Halachic authorities, combining these teachings with empirical research on mental and emotional health and their impact on eating disorder prevention. Reviewed and endorsed by prominent Rabbonim.
Rosh Kolel · Kollel Avreichim Detroir
Oak Park, MI
Director · Yeshivas Beth Yehudah
Southfield, MI
Principal · Bnos Yaakov Elementary
Lakewood, NJ
Extra-curricular Coordinator · Bnos Yaakov Elementary School
Lakewood, NJ
Menaheles · Maharsha Beish Ya'akov High School
Johannesburg, South Africa
Junior High Student Advisor · Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov
Chicago, IL
Schools across the United States and internationally have partnered with Atzmi to help their girls discover their Best Self.
Curriculum samples, facilitator guides, workshop materials, and full program details are available in the Atzmi Members Area — free to join, no application required.
Create a free accountAtzmi is not a treatment program. Atzmi provides educational programs dedicated to prevention and the development of emotional skills and tools.
Yes, you can choose not to do all 3 parts of the program. However, for optimal outcomes and success it is recommended that all 3 prongs be implemented.
Thanks to the generosity of donors and sponsors, there is no charge for our My Best Self Project curriculum. Nor is there a fee for having Dr. Forta speak to the parents and teachers.
The only cost is for student materials which is $10 per student.
If you want Dr. Forta to speak in person, then you will need to cover travel expenses.
Absolutely.
No. Ideally, the facilitator should be someone who is “in-house”.
If your class periods are one hour, then 4 sessions. If your class periods are 45 minutes, then 5–6 sessions will be needed.
Yes, self-paced video online training is provided.
Using the order form on the Members Area of our website.
Yes, for Workshops II and III only.
Yes.
Yes — see the What schools are saying section above.
Yes — see the Rabbinical Endorsements section above.
Once you've completed training and have a 15-minute meet with Dr. Forta, you will be given access to those slides.
See the Who's using it section above for the live map.
See the curriculum tabs in the “Program” section above.
All of the details are in our Members Area, there is no cost to sign up, use the link above.
We'd love to hear from you. Most schools that reach out are running the program within weeks — not months.