Shmita-Inspired Action Training
Do you want to...
- Deepen in community around justice and Jewish values?
- Expand your tool kit for resilience while making meaningful social change?
- Learn from local and national justice leaders?
Then Rhythms for Change is for you!
Rhythms for Change is a learning and action cohort for Jews in their 20s and 30s to empower social change work. The first cohort beings Februrary 21, 2021 and meets monthly through July, 2021. Apply here.
This cohort is structured in a “pod-style”, which means that there will be a focus on building community networks, learning from each other, and sharing resources within the group.
Rhythms for Change is an 18 month program broken down into 2 parts:
Part 1 - Intro to Shmita and Creating Change
Feb 2021-July 2021, Monthly meeting on Sundays, 10AM - 12:30
Explore the Jewish justice themes of Shmita and learn with movement leaders. Collectively sow and nurture seeds of meaningful change.
Details: Monthly 2.5 hour virtual (in person when COVID restrictions are lifted) meetings.
During the course of each session. Participants will:
Learn and explore the key Shmita themes including: economic justice and debt relief, food justice, immigrant rights, land rights, and food access.
Hear from movement leaders working on contemporary issues related to these themes
Gain individual and community tools for activism and resilience
Dates and Times: Part 1:Intro to Shmita meets online on Sundays from 10am-12:30pm on the following dates beginning in February 2021.
February 21
March 21
April 18
May 16
June 13
July 11
There will be many opportunities to dive further into the content and build community together between each Sunday gathering. Monthly earth-based celebrations, farm work, activism and organizing trainings, from Ekar and our partners will be offered. We ask that all participants commit to participating in at least one of these additional activities each month.
FEES
The fee for Part 1 (to be paid with registration once applications are processed) is sliding scale $18-36 per month which comes out to $108-216 for the whole session. We prefer that payment for the entire session be made with registration. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Contact [email protected] with payment questions.
Meet the facilitators…
Adam Brock: Adam is a cultural artist weaving together threads of collective liberation and social permaculture. An Ashkenazi Jew born and raised in Denver, Adam has co-founded multiple social change organizations and authored Change Here Now, a guidebook for applying ecological design to social change. As co-director at Regenerate Change, Adam helps individuals and organizations use nature’s wisdom to level up their activism and social change work.
Hannah Perez-Postman: Hannah has spent the last decade working in food, farming, and food justice in rural and urban settings across the country. A mixed-race Ashkenazi Jew hailing from the east coast, she walks the path of food system change with a spiritual foundation of justice and care for human communities and the earth.
Part 2 - The Shmita Year - Action and Changemaking for Justice
(Sept 2021- 2022)
An emergent journey to tend to what is growing through meaningful action
projects in relationship with local justice organizations. You’ll receive individual support and cohort training to fuel your changemaking for justice.
Part 2 takes place during the Shmita year (sept 2021-sept 2022) and focuses on action projects, growing relationships with existing local justice organizations, and continuing to build out our activist toolkits.