Kindling Creativity: A Chanukah Workshop for Early Childhood Educators
Chanukah literally brings light into darkness, accessing our creativity can bring light into these dark times. We connected to our inherent creativity and explored the power and purpose of art-making as a pathway for personal renewal in this moment of challenge and change.
Together we engaged in meaningful conversation of Jewish texts on Chanukah and took pen to paper through hands-on creative exercises as we tended our inner flame and cultivated resilience.
Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM ET
Who: For Early Childhood Educators nationally with the Paradigm Project part of the Leadership in the Wilderness Series
About the facilitator:
RACHEL BRODIE, Z"L | Senior Educator
Rachel Brodie, z"l is a Jewish educator working primarily with adult learners. She specializes in designing and facilitating professional development opportunities for other Jewish educators. From 2011 to 2016 Rachel served as the Chief Jewish Officer of the JCC of San Francisco. Prior to that (2004-2011) Rachel was the co-founder and Executive Director of Jewish Milestones: a not-for-profit, educational resource for Jewish life cycle ceremonies. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, Rachel settled in the Bay Area in 1997 after spending a year in Israel on a Melton Senior Educator’s Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She holds a master’s degree in Rabbinic Literature from The Jewish Theological Seminary and a B.A. in Literature and Society from Brown University.
Connect to your creativity and explore the power and purpose of art-making.
- Early Childhood
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