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Summer Training Intensives
Each summer, from 1995 to 2002, ICM has sponsored one or more Training Intensives in the midrashic arts at a variety of locations, including Elat Chayyim Retreat Center, Camp Isabella Freedman, Wesley Theological Seminary, and Bryn Mawr College.
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NEW SUMMER INTENSIVE ANNOUNCED!
On June 14-18, 2004, we look forward to returning to Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington, DC, to offer a week-long intensive training in Bibliodrama for seminarians, ministers and religious educators. Tailored to the needs of liberal Christian clergy, this training will include discussions of translating midrash into a Christian idiom, using the Gospels, and the difficulties of anti-Jewish and supersessionist texts - in addition to the technical skills needed to use Bibliodrama successfully from the pulpit, in the classroom or in small community groups.
Jewish educators, rabbis, and rabbinical students who are comfortable working in this setting are welcome to participate as well.
For more information about this training or a summer session brochure, contact Wesley's Summer School Coordinator, Sara Sheppard, at 202-885-8688 or ssheppard@wesleysem.edu. The registrar may be reached at 202-885-8650 or registrar@wesleysem.edu. Registration begins in April 2004.
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Torah Alive! Community Based Trainings
ICM will work with you to develop a skills training in Bibliodrama or any of the other midrashic arts, tailored to the needs of your community. Ideally, such programs include an introductory experience, a 12 - 30 hour training, and follow-up clinics to support the participants' work in the community. When appropriate, the visiting artist/trainer may also present a public program to build local enthusiasm and support for these methods.
We encourage synagogues, JCC's and BJE's to work collaboratively to make Torah Alive! opportunities available to a broad local constituency. ICM has even developed a grant proposal that is easily customized to your setting, in order to seek local foundation and federation support.
For sample course descriptions, see our Summer Training Intensives
To bring customized trainings in Jewish or Christian Bibliodrama or any of the other arts to your community, seminary or school, contact ICM at icmidrash@verizon.net or 215-438-6108.
Intensive Text/Response Days
In addition, ICM is now bringing an intensive day of text study and midrashic response to communities across the country. Interdisciplinary subjects in 2002 include:
Speaking Truth to Power: Prophecy & Courage
Encounter with the Other
Responses to Horror: Tumah and Taharah
View a sample program proposal. Then, to discuss your community hosting one of these day-long experiences, contact ICM at icmidrash@verizon.net or 215-438-6108.
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