A new virtual professional development experience!
Date: Tuesday, August 4 - Thursday, August 6
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm PT / 12:00 pm - 4:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: $180 (sliding scale)
Creating Anew is a three-day virtual intensive that helps Jewish professionals prepare for the High Holiday season through Jewish learning, creative practice, and reflective leadership. Together, we'll explore the themes of Elul and the High Holidays, gathering fresh Torah, meaningful practices, and practical tools to enrich not only your own preparation for the season, but also your teaching, facilitation, and leadership in the weeks ahead.
As Jewish professionals, we spend the weeks leading up to the High Holidays preparing others. We teach and facilitate. We write and plan. We hold space, solve problems, make decisions, and carry the hopes and needs of our students, congregants, colleagues, and communities.
But meaningful leadership requires more than giving. It asks us to keep renewing the well from which we lead.
Jewish tradition teaches that on Rosh Hashanah the world is created anew. Elul invites us into that process before it begins. It is a season of reflection, return, and possibility—a chance not only to prepare the calendar, but to prepare ourselves.
Over three half-day sessions we’ll engage in JSP’s nationally-recognized multimodal approach to Jewish learning and explore how creative process deepens text study and reflection. You will experience a way of learning and leading that is both deeply transformative and highly practical. Along the way, we'll pull back the curtain on the pedagogy itself, equipping you with adaptable tools and practices you can immediately bring into your own teaching, facilitation and community-building and beyond.
Here's what Jewish professionals have said after experiencing the Jewish Studio Process:
“You helped me gain a new perspective on texts, myself, along with my peers and Jewish world, and my creative side as well. Your positive energy helped me stay grounded and calm throughout the exercises which truly helped me stay in the moment and learn on a deeper level. Thank you!”
"This experience gave me time to focus on myself and how I can bring renewed energy and intention to both my work and my life."
"I gained so many ideas for bringing creativity into my programming and using it as a bridge to Jewish practice in new ways. I also left thinking differently about how to foster deeper engagement and connection among students."
Whether you are a rabbi, educator, chaplain, Hillel professional, or communal leader, Creating Anew offers a rare opportunity to prepare not only for the High Holidays, but for the year of leadership that follows. You'll leave with renewed energy, fresh Torah, practical tools, and creative practices to support both your own life and the communities you serve.
What to Expect
Each session includes:
Engaging Jewish text study
Guided creative exploration (no art experience required)
Personal reflection and writing
Small-group conversations and whole-group dialogue
Practical insights and facilitation tools you can bring back to your own work
We'll provide digital source sheets and all learning materials each session. All you'll need is a journal and a few simple art supplies—paper and a pen are enough to fully participate.
We encourage you to join from a comfortable, private space where you can be present and engaged. Cameras on is preferred, as the experience is built around creativity, connection, and shared learning.
Facilitated by: Rabbi Adina Allen(she/her)is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of creativity to revitalize our lives and transform Jewish tradition. Integrating a lifetime of experience in the expressive arts with her rabbinic training, Adina has taught clergy, educators and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. Adina’s writing is widely published and her original research on using creative process to generate contemporary midrash was published in the CCAR Journal in 2013. She is a recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging Jewish Educators and is a fellow of the Open Dor Project for spiritual Jewish entrepreneurs. Adina was ordained in Hebrew College’s pluralistic training program in Boston in 2014 where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Adina published her first book in 2024, “The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom,” which pairs spiritual wisdom with art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research.
REGISTER BY: 4pm Tuesday, August 3
These daily virtual sessions run from Tuesday, August 4 to Thursday August 6 from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm PT / 12:00 pm - 4:00pm ET. This program is $180, with sliding scale options, and will take place on Zoom with closed captions.
A Note About Fees:
The participation fee for this series is $180. Our goal is to never turn anyone away for lack of funds so please choose the price from our sliding scale that best meets your needs. If you you need additional assistance beyond what is listed please contact Candace Goodwin at cgoodwin@jewishstudioproject.org.
Refund Policy:
If you need to cancel due to extenuating family or life circumstances, please be in touch with Candace to discuss options.