We are grateful to Rabbi Adina Allen for sharing her insights with us. Please enjoy the conversation recording.
Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, author, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for healing, liberation and social transformation. Adina’s first book, The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom, was published in July 2024 (Ayin Press). She is also a national media contributor, popular speaker, and workshop leader, and her writing can be found in scholarly as well as mainstream publications. Based on the work of her mother, renowned art therapist Pat B. Allen, Adina developed the Jewish Studio Process, a methodology for unlocking creativity, which she has brought to thousands of activists, educators, artists, and clergy across the country. Adina was ordained by Hebrew College in 2014 where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Adina is the recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging educational leaders. She and her family live in Berkeley, California.