As we enter a new year, this workshop invites us to explore how Jewish wisdom guides us through beginnings and endings, holding curiosity for both what starts and what concludes. Through text study, art-making, and reflective writing, we'll notice the tensions between anticipation and completion, consider what wisdom looks like at each stage, and open creative space to honor what we're ready to initiate, finish, or transform.

No art or text experience needed, just openness to process and possibility.

Jewish Studio Project (JSP) builds creative capacity across the Jewish community. We equip individuals and organizations with the tools to navigate change and uncertainty and reimagine Jewish life in a rapidly shifting world. Through bold thought leadership, accessible digital content, leader development intensives, and regional studios, JSP is shaping a future in which every person engages their inherent creativity as a source of well-being, resilience, and spiritual vitality.

Josh Conescu (he/him) is a Jewish Studio Project-trained facilitator who has been working in Jewish education in the Boston area for 25 years. Before teaching, Josh was an improvisational actor / theatre manager in Seattle. Josh happened onto a JSP intensive workshop in Berkeley in November, 2019. The experience rewired his relationship to Jewish texts, teaching and his understanding of how each of us is uniquely creative.