The Place of All Possibility - Jewbilee Keynote + Workshop
10:00am - 2:45pm PT
Location: Penzak JCC in Los Gatos, CA
Cost: $30-$36
Join Jewish Silicon Valley’s annual day of Jewish Learning, “Jewbilee,” on the theme of: Powering Creativity – Creativity as a Tool for Transformation.
How can we unlock imagination for a thriving Jewish future?
Rabbi Adina Allen—author, creator, and founder of the Jewish Studio Project—will explore a Jewish perspective on why creativity matters more than ever in today’s uncertain world, and what we might do to unleash and reignite our creative spark.
Following the keynote book talk in conversation with award-winning writer and journalist Chanan Tigay, there will be an interactive breakout sessions will provide a new outlook on creativity and a set of tools to bring creative resilience to our Jewish communities led by JSP Facilitator Lee Bearson.
In between the breakout sessions, we will enjoy delicious Kosher-Style food.
The day concludes with a closing ceremony facilitated by JLeaders Academy Fellows. The participants will be invited to reflect on their learning and share intentions for creative action.
The first 100 ticket buyers will receive Rabbi Adina Allen's book "The Place of all Possibility", at check-in.
More information about the schedule, specific sessions, and activities can be found at www.jvalley.org/poweringcreativity.
Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for healing, liberation and social transformation. Based on the work of her mother, renowned art therapist Pat B. Allen, Adina developed the Jewish Studio Process, a methodology for unlocking creativity, which she has brought to thousands of organizational and community leaders, educators, artists, and clergy across the country.
Praise for The Place of All Possibility:
“Bravo for this renewal of the possibility and purpose of arts and artful living.”
~ Lisa Miller, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University and bestselling author of The Awakened Brain
“Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to become creators of worlds… [the book introduces] a wonderful method and a remarkable teacher.”
~ Rabbi Shai Held, author of Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“Rabbi Allen encourages readers to ‘peel back layers of what we think we know’ to construct new understandings of their faith and themselves. It’s a unique and invigorating lens on Judaism.”
~ Publisher’s Weekly
“To open this book is to open oneself to hope.”
~ Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College
The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish sacred texts, and the radical interpretive strategies of ancient rabbis, The Place of All Possibility provides teachings and tools for those who seek to employ creativity as a force of transformation. Putting spiritual wisdom in conversation with contemporary disciplines of art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research, this essential book invites us all to rediscover our place in a world of mutual thriving. Packed with practical exercises to inspire your creative practice, The Place of All Possibility is for all people—from any tradition or none—who want to seed a world of imagination, abundance, and joy.