The Place of All Possibility - BOSTON Book Talk and Conversation
1:00 - 2:15 pm ET
Location: Lehrhaus
425 Washington StreetSomerville, MA 02143
Cost: sliding scale
Join us for an afternoon of conversation with Rabbi Adina Allen, author of The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom, in conversation with Joshua Foer.
Join us for an afternoon of conversation with Rabbi Adina Allen, author of The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom, in conversation with Joshua Foer.
Creativity offers us a portal to transformation, spiritual connection, and revelation. It is there for us when we feel stuck, divided, or disconnected. In her highly anticipated first book, Rabbi Adina Allen delivers a paradigm-shifting and powerfully accessible reading of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity and invites us to rethink and transform ourselves, our lives, and the world around us.
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.
Journalist and entrepreneur Joshua Foer is the author of the international bestseller Moonwalking with Einstein, which has been published in 37 languages, and which was a finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and other publications. He is the co-founder and chairman of Atlas Obscura and the co-founder of several Jewish enterprises including Sefaria, Sukkah City, Leviathan, and most recently, Lehrhaus.
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.