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SUMMARY:Rekindling Light and Joy Through Writing & Art
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, December 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n1-2:30 p.m. EST\n$154\n \n\nRemember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital. – Reb Nachman of Breslov\n \nIn times of personal and collective darkness\, how do you stay inspired and revive your creative spirit?\n\nYou don’t have to do it alone. \nIn this workshop\, poet and painter Cathleen Cohen and essayist and memoirist Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer will guide you through Jewish texts\, poetry\, and creative exercises. Together\, you’ll explore ways to rediscover joy and rekindle your creative passion in honor of Hanukkah\, so that you can step into Hanukkah and the winter season with a renewed sense of inner light. \nWhether you’re just beginning your creative journey or you’ve been writing or making art for years\, this workshop invites you to discover fresh techniques and pathways that will deepen your connections and nurture joy as a spiritual practice. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nCathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. A painter and teacher\, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell\, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary\, Baltimore Review\, Cagibi\, East Coast Ink\, 6ix\, North of Oxford\, One Art\, Passager\, Philadelphia Stories\, Rockvale Review and Rogue Agent. Camera Obscura (chapbook\, Moonstone Press)\, appeared in 2017 and Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press) in 2021. She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (ceruleanarts.com).\n \n \n \n\n\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She is an author and educator whose work focuses on spirituality\, creativity and disability. Her personal essays have been featured in Tablet\, Shondaland\, NBCThink\, Wisdom Daily\, WHYY and many other publications and she has published several nonfiction books as well as plays for children. Gabrielle is currently working on a memoir about the power of intuition and ongoing conversations with her ancestors. She writes a Substack newsletter called “Journey With The Seasons\,” a weekly practice of meditative reading with creative self-expression prompts. \nGabrielle holds a BFA in theater and creative writing from Emerson College and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Rekindling Light and Joy Through Writing & Art
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, December 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n1-2:30 p.m. EST\n$154\n \n\nRemember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital. – Reb Nachman of Breslov\n \nIn times of personal and collective darkness\, how do you stay inspired and revive your creative spirit?\n\nYou don’t have to do it alone. \nIn this workshop\, poet and painter Cathleen Cohen and essayist and memoirist Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer will guide you through Jewish texts\, poetry\, and creative exercises. Together\, you’ll explore ways to rediscover joy and rekindle your creative passion in honor of Hanukkah\, so that you can step into Hanukkah and the winter season with a renewed sense of inner light. \nWhether you’re just beginning your creative journey or you’ve been writing or making art for years\, this workshop invites you to discover fresh techniques and pathways that will deepen your connections and nurture joy as a spiritual practice. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nCathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. A painter and teacher\, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell\, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary\, Baltimore Review\, Cagibi\, East Coast Ink\, 6ix\, North of Oxford\, One Art\, Passager\, Philadelphia Stories\, Rockvale Review and Rogue Agent. Camera Obscura (chapbook\, Moonstone Press)\, appeared in 2017 and Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press) in 2021. She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (ceruleanarts.com).\n \n \n \n\n\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She is an author and educator whose work focuses on spirituality\, creativity and disability. Her personal essays have been featured in Tablet\, Shondaland\, NBCThink\, Wisdom Daily\, WHYY and many other publications and she has published several nonfiction books as well as plays for children. Gabrielle is currently working on a memoir about the power of intuition and ongoing conversations with her ancestors. She writes a Substack newsletter called “Journey With The Seasons\,” a weekly practice of meditative reading with creative self-expression prompts. \nGabrielle holds a BFA in theater and creative writing from Emerson College and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Rekindling Light and Joy Through Writing & Art
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, December 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n1-2:30 p.m. EST\n$154\n \n\nRemember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital. – Reb Nachman of Breslov\n \nIn times of personal and collective darkness\, how do you stay inspired and revive your creative spirit?\n\nYou don’t have to do it alone. \nIn this workshop\, poet and painter Cathleen Cohen and essayist and memoirist Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer will guide you through Jewish texts\, poetry\, and creative exercises. Together\, you’ll explore ways to rediscover joy and rekindle your creative passion in honor of Hanukkah\, so that you can step into Hanukkah and the winter season with a renewed sense of inner light. \nWhether you’re just beginning your creative journey or you’ve been writing or making art for years\, this workshop invites you to discover fresh techniques and pathways that will deepen your connections and nurture joy as a spiritual practice. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nCathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. A painter and teacher\, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell\, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary\, Baltimore Review\, Cagibi\, East Coast Ink\, 6ix\, North of Oxford\, One Art\, Passager\, Philadelphia Stories\, Rockvale Review and Rogue Agent. Camera Obscura (chapbook\, Moonstone Press)\, appeared in 2017 and Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press) in 2021. She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (ceruleanarts.com).\n \n \n \n\n\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She is an author and educator whose work focuses on spirituality\, creativity and disability. Her personal essays have been featured in Tablet\, Shondaland\, NBCThink\, Wisdom Daily\, WHYY and many other publications and she has published several nonfiction books as well as plays for children. Gabrielle is currently working on a memoir about the power of intuition and ongoing conversations with her ancestors. She writes a Substack newsletter called “Journey With The Seasons\,” a weekly practice of meditative reading with creative self-expression prompts. \nGabrielle holds a BFA in theater and creative writing from Emerson College and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. \n\n\n 
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