Dear Chevre,
I wish to announce
myself as available to you and your communities as a Liturgist, Teacher,
Prayer Enabler, Performer, Prayer Leader and/or Scholar/Artist In Residence.
For those of you
who don't know me, I am a second career student at the Academy for Jewish
Religion (on hiatus this year) and a Brooklyn-based Liturgist. (Please see
abbreviated C.V. at bottom of this post.)
My work is currently featured on Ritualwell and the Open Siddur Project
and is used by many communities as part of their services, both regular and
life cycle.
This last February
I was the Scholar In Residence at the Beth Israel - The West temple retreat
in Cleveland, Ohio. During that weekend, I:
•
taught a series of
Personal Prayer Writing Classes (for spiritual exploration);
•
led guided
meditations;
•
planned and
co-led, in collaboration with Rabbi Lader, a Shabbat morning service that
used a lot of my alternate liturgy.
It was a
very successful weekend and I'd love to be able to do the same with you.
I can do any combination of all or any of the above, plus:
•
teach a kavannah
writing class that will produce work from your congregation that you can use in
services;
•
a theater workshop
called Torah (or Prayer) On Fire that explores text using theater
techniques;
•
Bibliodrama.
I'm really excited
to collaborate with you to tailor and shape workshops and residencies into a
unique experience for your communities. I have taught these
workshops for Reform, Conservative, Open Orthodox, pluralist and unaffiliated
gatherings and I respect and honor all of your parameters.
Please contact me
at trisha.arlin@gmail.com to ask questions or discuss specifics, fees,
dates and details about any of the other offerings listed above.
Resume, references
and sample class handout available upon request.
"The
feedback has been extremely positive, and a number of our participants stated
that you both inspired and
challenged them to think about the power of prayer in their lives. The work
they did over the weekend also encouraged self reflection, and allowed them to
get out of their comfort zones in order to create a personal prayer."
------From Temple Beth Israel-The West's Director of
Education
"I want
to thank you both for organizing such a thoughtful and fun retreat this week.
Walter and I
both really appreciated the adult programming - the challenge to get outside of
our comfort zones and to think deeply was great. I really got a lot out of
Trish’s work with us." ------Email from congregant
in Cleveland to Rabbi and Education Director
"In Trisha’s prayer writing class we learned about and rethought the purposes of traditional prayers. Trisha stripped the prayer forms down to their elements, and guided us in rebuilding them to express the cries of our own souls. Trisha’s deep, imaginative exercises pushed me to stretch and extend my conception of God and my relation to Judaism. Hearing what others in the group wrote was often a profound experience and always a revelation: Listen to how someone else’s life puts its own flesh of words on the same bones."
-----Adult Student in Brooklyn
"Several years ago I took Trisha Arlin's prayer writing class. I did not consider myself to be someone who could write creatively. I was also going through an emotional time as I had just lost my wife. I decided to try my hand at this. The prayer I will always remember so clearly is the one I wrote on the topic of "Havdalah." I had never been able to write so personal a prayer -- or poem as I call it. The last lines were:
-----Adult Student in Brooklyn
"Several years ago I took Trisha Arlin's prayer writing class. I did not consider myself to be someone who could write creatively. I was also going through an emotional time as I had just lost my wife. I decided to try my hand at this. The prayer I will always remember so clearly is the one I wrote on the topic of "Havdalah." I had never been able to write so personal a prayer -- or poem as I call it. The last lines were:
"Sing in my ear – keep me awake,
keep me aware and alive.
Please.
Please.
Amen
Later that night I had an accident when I almost fell asleep
driving. I could easily have died. I will always believe that that prayer
kept me alive!" ------Adult Student in Brooklyn
"There aren't many prayer leaders or speakers who can engage a roomful of people ranging in age from 8 to 80 in a d'var Torah about the ancient priesthood (including a guided meditation), but Trisha Arlin had us all in rapt attention and engagement. Quite a feat!"
-------Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Kolot Chayeinu/Voices Of Our Lives, Brooklyn NY
I look forward to
hearing from you!
Liturgist in Residence
- National Havurah Committee 2014 Summer Institute August 2014
- Selichot Liturgy, Sinai Free Synagogue, Mount Vernon NY 2015
- Ongoing Commissions for Prayer/Kavannot, Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives, Brooklyn NY 2009 to present
Scholar In Residence
- Beth Israel-West Temple, Cleveland OH February 2017
- Congregation Adath Shalom, Morris Plains NJ July
2014
Online
§ Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and
Intention http://triganza.blogspot.com/
§ RitualWell.org (also featured in 5777 Omer Project)
§ Open Siddur Project, opensiddur.org
“WRITING PERSONAL PRAYER
WORKSHOP” Jan.
2013 – to present
o
LimmudNY February, 2016
o
Kolot Chayeinu, Adult
Learning program 2013 - 2015
o
NHC 2014 Summer Institute July 2014
o
Shavuot Across Brooklyn, 5775, 5774, 5773
Publication:
·
“PLACE YOURSELF: Prayers and
Words of Intention”, a collection of new liturgy and kavannot to be published
in 2017 by Dimus Parrhesia Press
·
"Emet:
Truth–Established and Otherwise" in A POET'S SIDDUR, edited by Rick Lupert
. Ain't Got No Press, 2017
·
"Choosing
a Siddur In a Pluralistic Environment", co-written with Rabbi Ellen
Lippmann, in STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM, ed. Leonard Levin,
Ben Yehuda Press 2016
·
"Kavannah
Before Shofar Blowing" in STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM, edited by
Leonard Levin, Ben Yehuda Press 2016
·
“We
Eat First” Article co-written with Rabbi Ellen Lippmann in THE SACRED
TABLE, edited by Mary L. Zamore, CCAR
Press 2011
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