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Training Intensives in the Midrashic Arts
Each summer, from 1995 to 2002, ICM 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! Winter Bibliodrama Training Intensive
Embodying Torah Through Bibliodrama
An Entry-level Directorial Training with Rivkah Walton
ALEPH/Ruach Ha'aretz Winter Retreat
February 2-8, 2009
Madonna Center,
Albuquerque, N.M.
Bibliodrama creates dynamic, living midrash through the use of improvisational role-playing. Using the method originally developed by Peter Pitzele, untrained participants are invited to step into the shoes of our ancestral families to imagine their motivations and relationships, struggles and dreams. We experience the Bible with our whole selves, bringing body, heart, mind, and spirit to the sacred encounter with text.
In this intensive entry-level training, you will participate in lecture/demonstrations,
and will develop your directorial skills through a sequence of carefully constructed exercises. You will learn to select appropriate texts, create a safe playing context,
warm up the group, guide the interpretation, integrate traditional midrashim,
achieve closure, and de-role and debrief the players. If appropriate to the group,
we will also discuss the use of Bibliodrama in interfaith settings. This training will
provide you with lasting tools for midrashic inquiry in the classroom, from the pulpit, or in community settings.
Embodying Torah Through Bibliodrama is a training appropriate for Jewish educators, rabbis, rabbinical students, and members of congregations and havurot who wish to use Bibliodrama in educational, liturgical, and community settings. The most reliable predictors of success with this method are personal empathy, creativity, and spontaneity. Applicants under age 25, and interested Christian clergy and educators should call Rivkah Walton at 215-438-6480 box 1, to discuss this training.
For more retreat information, or to register for this training, see the Ruach Ha'aretz winter retreat website.
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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 midrash@aol.com or 215-438-6480, box 1.
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 midrash@aol.com or 215-438-6480, box 1.
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