Josh had spent 25 years as a Jewish educator before he set foot in a JSP studio. Burnt out, he signed up for a four-day studio immersive in 2019.

Despite his trepidation around art-making, Josh experienced an instant, paradigm-shifting change; for the first time in his life, he had a way to move through the noise in his own head, without needing words for it first.

That shift became a lifeline through COVID, through the loss of his mother, and it has reshaped his career entirely. Josh trained as a JSP facilitator and now builds his professional life around leading others through the same practice. But the deeper impact for him has been personal, JSP’s process gave him a spiritual language. In his words, moving through the JSP process offers, “a non-verbal, non-linear, non-intellectual way to express myself, it’s unbelievable to me”.

This practice has become routine for Josh, who will often sit down with some paint in order to process in a way that allows him to be more present to his own experience. It also opened the door to a meditation practice he doubts he'd have found otherwise. Six years into his involvement with JSP, Josh says: the lens through which he now sees the world is not the one he had before. He says, “I feel like from the day I became introduced to JSP, it’s all been one long process.”