Creative Facilitator Training

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.

We are currently not recruiting for our Creative Facilitator Training but if you want to be the first-to-know about upcoming immersives, leadership trainings, and ways to deepen with JSP, fill out our interest form!


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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 3

Learn about the incredible JSP Facilitators from Cohort 3 and hear about their 2-year journeys through the Creative Facilitator Training.

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 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

Meet the Alumni and Current Fellows

COHORT 3

Lee Bearson
Debra Cantor
Kelli Clement
Laura Earle
Asher Edes
Keshira HaLev Fife
Sheryl Kalman
Maya Kosover
Sara Laya Heller
Becca Levy
Erica Licht
Avi Prager
Jeanne Reisman
Erica Riddick
Eva Sax-Bolder
Amy Shoemaker
Hannah Soffa
Kim Wayman

COHORT 2

Wendie Bernstein Lash
Steph Breitsman
Josh Consecu
Elyza HaLev
Ilana Jaffe-Lewis
Laura Janowitch
Jay Levine
Elan Loeb
Barb Richman
Jana Rickerson
Laura Rumpf
Devorah Servi
Sharoni Sibony
Holly Smith

COHORT 1

Ross Berman
Ann Bohrer
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Taylor Epstein
Karen Erlichman
Michelle Favreault
Margie Jacobs
Rebecca Katz
Joel Kushner
Bec Richman
Clara Vaknin

COHORT 4

Susan Arnsten-Russell
Lillie Benowitz
Carly Calbreath
Valerie Cohen
Carol Dorf
Steven Halling
Liz Levine
Kat Macias
Amy Mandel
Lauren Meyer
Mara Pfeffer
Jena Schwarz
Sarah Stone
Tobie Weisman

COHORT 5

Ruth Abusch-Magder
Jordan Aiken
Tali Anisfeld
Suzanne Bates
Leah Berkowitz
Lis Cardy
Ellen Davis
Donna Friedman Meir
Diane Kim
Becca Lasky
Mason Marks
Shula Pesach
Noam Raucher
Hannah Richman Kearney
Ollie Schwartz
Franny Silverman
Phyllis Steinberg-Zauss
Inez Tiger
Marcella White Campbell
Leila Wice

Questions about deepening your learning with Jewish Studio Project?

Contact Avital Krifcher, JSP Training Manager at akrifcher@jewishstudioproject.org.

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