Virtual Training Workshop:
Wednesday 9 July 2025 12:15-13:30 pm CET
Virtual Training Workshop:
Wednesday 9 July 2025 12:15-13:30 pm CET
A virtual improv workshop on Teshuvah, Community Leadership & Playful Change
Brace yourselves: Tishrei is coming… again!
As Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur approach, we’re offered a powerful opportunity: to reflect, renew, and reimagine. For community-builders and leaders, this season also invites bold, fresh approaches to programming and engagement.
Join us for on Wednesday 9 July at 12:15-13:30 CET for an interactive, hands-on workshop that explores teshuvah—return, repair, transformation—through the unexpected lens of improvisational theatre. Together, we’ll blend insights from Jewish tradition with practical improv techniques that strengthen leadership, deep listening, and community-building skills.
It’s not the easiest to think about Tishri before summer – and maybe even less so to think playfully these days. But we trust that improv is a great tool to embrace uncertainty and acknowledge its meaning in our communities.
You’ll walk away with:
- A deeper, embodied understanding of teshuvah as a relational and dynamic process
- Concrete, replicable activities to use in your own community for this Tishrei
- Improv-based tools to navigate uncertainty, foster collaboration, and lead with agility in your everyday work life
No performance background needed—just curiosity and openness!
This workshop is aimed at Jewish community professionals in Europe and is an interactive workshop.
Laurent Trèves
Laurent Trèves holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature, History and Linguistics, and is a PhD candidate in contemporary British literature in Lyon, France. He is an improv’ and public speaking professor specialising in vulnerable groups, such as refugees or former drug addicts. He is also a university-level literature teacher as well as a literary translator.
He spent 15 years as a member of the French Jewish scouts movement, including five creating curricula and trainings for leaders. He was a Moishe House Without Walls host for several years. Laurent is fascinated with transmission, Jewish tradition and philosophy. He currently lives in Paris with his wife and his two fantastic kids.
Faustine Sigal
Faustine Sigal has a master’s in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and another in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies as a European Leadership Fellow. After teaching at the Alliance Israélite Universelle, she spent seven years as Moishe House’s International Director of Jewish Education, helping communities around the world shape ambitious Jewish learning and community-building initiatives.
These days, she’s the project manager for PJ Library’s launch in France and a Judaism advisor for HBO’s recent show Reformed. Passionate about making Jewish tradition and texts resonate across different audiences, academic fields, and contemporary conversations, she’s lived in Israel and the U.S. and now calls Paris home, where she lives with her husband and two kids.
To register for this workshop please click here.
Participants are requested to join from a computer rather than a mobile device and to turn on camera mode to fully participate in the workshop, including breakout room discussions. We also advise you to update to the latest version of Zoom in advance.
Priority will be given to Jewish community professionals living and working in Europe.
We will confirm your place within 5 working days.
Please be in touch with us at debbieh@jdc.org with any questions.
