Become a
JSP Facilitator!

JSP’s Creative Facilitator Training is a two-year intensive fellowship designed for those looking to bring the Jewish Studio Process deeply into their lives and professional practice.

JSP Facilitators emerge with a new lens and practice through which to view creativity, text study, the role of the facilitator and Jewish tradition itself.

Applications for Cohort 5 will open in May 2024!

Cohort 5 will run from October 2024 - May 2026.

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JSP’s Creative Facilitator Training offers participants:

  • A vision and tangible plan for bringing the Jewish Studio Process to their communities

  • A deepened self-awareness and an enlivened creative practice

  • New access points into Jewish wisdom and community

  • Skill and confidence as a facilitator leading creative approaches to Jewish learning

  • Expertise, deep understanding, and embodied wisdom of the Jewish Studio Process

Highlights of the program include connection to a dynamic and supportive learning cohort, 1:1 mentorship with JSP faculty, and membership in the JSP Facilitator Network (JSPFN).

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“I feel like I’ve been able to get a direct phone number to a source of wisdom that I knew was there, but wasn’t quite sure how to reach before. This Process has been such a gift for me. I want to share this experience with others.”

Laura Janowitch, JSP Facilitator

Reflections from Cohort 2

Learn about the incredible JSP Facilitators from Cohort 2 and hear about their 2-year journeys through the Creative Facilitator Training.

Creative Facilitator Training FAQs

  • The Creative Facilitator Training is designed to immerse Fellows in the Jewish Studio Process through personal experience and learning in a cohort. CFT is divided into two phases- the first is focused on developing a deep personal relationship with the Jewish Studio Process, the second is focused on facilitation skills.

    What fellows will get out of the training:

    • Deepened self-awareness

    • Enlivened creative practice

    • New access points into Jewish wisdom and community

    • Proficiency leading a liberatory, feminist approach to Jewish learning and practice

    • Skill and confidence as a facilitator

    • Vision and tangible plan for bringing this work to their communities

    • Connection to a dynamic and supportive learning cohort

    • 1:1 mentorship with JSP faculty

    • Membership in the JSP Facilitator Network (JSPFN)

    Learning Format:

    • Webinars: Twice a month the cohort will meet virtually for a 2.5 hour webinar, which Fellows are expected to attend in real time. Webinars will include a combination of community building, text study, and exploration of particular themes through discussion and/or doing the Jewish Studio Process.

    • Havruta (paired learning): Between each webinar, Fellows will meet with a learning partner on their own time. This is an opportunity to learn 1:1 with another person in the cohort and work through assignments together.

    • In-Person Retreats: There will be three in-person retreats as a chance to immerse in the cohort experience and do the Jewish Studio Process together in person over a longer period of time.

    • Practicum Projects: During the second year of CFT, Fellows will design and facilitate at least three Jewish Studio Process sessions. The Practicum is a hands-on opportunity during CFT to gain experience facilitating the Jewish Studio Process in community.

    • Office Hours: There will be monthly office hours with faculty members throughout the fellowship. Though optional, office hours are highly encouraged as another point of learning through asking questions, bringing insights, and building relationships.

  • We offer sliding scale tuition and will be announcing tuition rates for CFT 5 in the coming months.

  • The next cohort of CFT will run from October, 2024 - May 2026.

    Retreat Dates:

    • Retreat #1 in-person - November 10 - 14th, 2024

    • Retreat #2 in-person - May 4 - 7th, 2025

    • Retreat #3 (Final & Siyyum) in-person - May 3 - 6th 2026

    Webinar Dates:

    • Webinars will take place twice a month on Wednesdays from 3-5:30 pm PT // 6-8:30 pm ET

    Havruta (Paired Learning):

    • Fellows will work with their partner(s) to schedule a time between each webinar to meet and go through the assignment together.

  • We are interested in applicants who share the following commitments, experience, and character:

    • Have deep alignment with the Jewish Studio Process methodology

    • Believe creative process is a powerful tool for personal, spiritual and collective transformation

    • Are excited to develop/deepen a personal spiritual practice in the Jewish Studio Process methodology

    • Are dedicated to facilitating programming that addresses a community need and/or have a community in mind they are excited to bring JSP's methods to

    • Are committed to interrogating systems of power and inequality in the world and the ways these show up in their own lives

    • Are curious, self-aware, and able to sit with ambiguity, complexity and the unknown as it shows up both within themselves and in the world

    • Are on a path of exploring, deepening, questioning and/or expanding their relationship with something bigger and beyond, whether that is identified as God or Source or in some other way

    • Are skilled in community-building and project management and bring an entrepreneurial spirit to initiatives they are involved in

    We welcome applicants from all over the United States and internationally. This year, we are holding several spots specifically for applicants in Boston and Los Angeles, two regions where we are currently developing local JSP hubs.

  • The application process will consist of written responses and a short video introduction submitted through a form. Finalists will move on to a virtual interview.

    Applications for the next cohort will be open from May 31st- June 28, 2024. Interviews take place during the month of July, 2024. Fellows will be notified of acceptance by the beginning of August, 2024.

Meet the CFT Faculty

Learn about the lead faculty — Rabbi Adina Allen, Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR, and Rhonda Johnson, ATR-BC.

Throughout the program, JSP will bring in guest faculty including spiritual and social justice leaders, members of the JSP Facilitator Network, and more. Guest faculty for Cohort 5 will include Jeff Kasowitz, Rabbi Bec Richman and Rabbi Adam Lavitt.

  • Rabbi Adina Allen smiling against a blue wall.

    Rabbi Adina Allen

    Co-founder and Creative Director of Jewish Studio Project and designer of the Jewish Studio Process

  • Art therapist Pat B. Allen smiling.

    Pat B. Allen

    PhD, ATR, internationally renowned author, art therapist and designer of the Open Studio Process

  • Art therapist Rhonda Johnson smiling.

    Rhonda Johnson

    ATR-BC, facilitator of the Open Studio Process

Questions about applying to future Creative Facilitator Training Cohorts?

Contact Danielle Austin, JSP Sr Training and Network Manager at danielle@jewishstudioproject.org.

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