SLBC Master Schedule SLBC Digital Portal www.songleaderbootcamp.com/slbc20 Jewish Community Center 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146 (314) 432-5700 Hotel Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel St. Louis 191 Westport Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63146 (314) 878-1500 Taxi Yellow Cab (314) 656-6705 Emergency Numbers SLBC Office (314) 991-0909 (before or after SLBC conference); Elisa’s cell (314) 249-6251 SLBC Course Labels These course labels can help you choose what sessions might best serve you. All sessions will be labeled accordingly and often have multiple labels: Master Courses & Tracks MC Master Course *recommended for all first time SLBC participants ECE Early Childhood Educator ED Jewish Educator (day school, religious etc.) MM Mindfulness and Meditation SL Songleader WL Worship Leader Chavurot DSC Day School Student Chavurah SCC Staenberg Camping Chavurah RC Ramah Camping Chavurah STC Staenberg Teen Chavurah SLBC Rooms Mirowitz Performing Arts Center (PAC) Main SLBC Room Board Room Behind lobby front desk in office suite Beit Midrash Hallway outside Performing Arts Center Black Box Theater End of hallway next to Performing Arts Center Gathering Place Across PAC, first room off the lobby Meeting Room A/B Across from Performing Arts Center Visual Arts Studio Across from Black Box Theater ECC Open Space Downstairs ECC Classroom 1 Downstairs ECC Classroom 2 Downstairs Family Center Downstairs next to ECC Adult Day Center Downstairs next to ECC Multi-Purpose Room Downstairs in fitness building across from family locker room JGame Zone Downstairs in fitness building next to family locker room Sunday, February 16, 2020 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Opening Program Mirowitz Performing Arts Center 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Star State – Peak Performance Leadership Skills Mirowitz Performing Arts Center Master Course *recommended for new SLBC participants MC MM ECE ED MM SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Rick Recht Star State is a powerful and highly motivational leadership training seminar that demonstrates methods utilized by the world's top athletes, entertainers, and educators to quickly and consistently achieve a peak physical and psychological state for extraordinary personal performance. What do these 'best in class' performers have in common? They all use Star State techniques to guarantee that the very best version of themselves is always front and center. Star State is highly interactive, physical, and fun. 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Who's Calling the ShaTZ: What it Means to Lead Others in Prayer Beit Midrash ED WL RC STC Cantor Ellen Dreskin and Rabbi David Ingber As one who leads prayer, just who in heaven's name do I think I am, and what on earth do I think I'm doing? Come explore "prayer-formance vs. performance," "keva-nah" in prayer, the integration of my inner prayer life, my external role, and more. What are my goals and expectations for myself and my community? 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Six Essential Ingredients in your Jewish Program Meeting Room A/B ECE ED SL WL RC SCC STC Shira Kline What makes your program Jewish? Is it lighting the candles or singing in Hebrew? What if these actions are just the wrapping paper around the gift within? Let’s unwrap them and discover six essential ingredients of a Jewish gathering. They are the backstory, the spark, the pathway from doing to being. Each ingredient, as old as time, continues to address the universal human need to make meaning out of life. 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Insights and Innovations around Shema The Gathering Place ECE ED MM SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Rabbi Evan Krame and Rabbi David Markus Shema and V'ahavta are peaks of Jewish liturgy, but sometimes they lose the love. Without care and skill, they can become rote and lifeless. Together we'll use melody, harmony, chant, poetry and imagery to turbo-charge experiences of Shema and V'ahavta, tailored to different settings for these Jewish jewels. Whether for synagogue, camp, chavurah, meetings or personal spirituality, these tools are for connection and transformation in a world that needs them – and you. 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Tachlis For Spiritual Troubadours Family Center SL Ellen Allard, Mikey Pauker and Billy Jonas Join International Jewish touring recording artists Ellen Allard, Mikey Pauker, and Billy Jonas for an informative and spiritually uplifting workshop where we will explore the Tachlis (or details) of running a business as touring Jewish musicians. This session will include time for personal reflection and time for asking the deepest questions of your heart’s desire. 3:15 PM-4:25 PM Hineini, Part I – Waking Up to Your Life Board Room ED DSC MM SL SCC STC WL Rabbi Andrea Goldstein Participants will be introduced to the basic practice of mindfulness meditation and understand how Jewish rituals and tradition deepen and enhance this work. 3:15 PM-4:25 PM A Textual Awakening JCC Adult Day Center ED WL RC STC Rabbi Josh Warshawsky How do we find texts for which we are inspired to write melodies? What emotions are we trying to evoke? How can the melodies we create help to better express the words we are trying to say? Join Rabbi Josh Warshawsky as we sing and explore these questions, and leave with a new set of texts to inspire us in our melody and Jewish music creation. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Head to Toes: Interactive Body Dynamics Mirowitz Performing Arts Center Master Course *recommended for new SLBC participants, MC MM ECE ED SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Rick Recht The Head-to-Toes Interactive Body Dynamics master course explores the ways top presenters utilize every aspect of their bodies, body distance, and Praise Phrases to create exciting, meaningful, interactive experiences in a variety of settings. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Positive, Powerful Prayer Meeting Room A/B ED SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Eliana Light T'fillah for elementary and middle schoolers can be tough. How do we balance learning the words with finding personal meaning? Short activities, framing devices, and intentional melody choices can do wonders. Come explore the “why” of praying with kids and gain tools to enhance your t'fillah program with whatever resources, time, and talent you have. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Guitar Skills Workshop *for intermediate or advanced guitar players JCC Family Center SL Rabbi Joe Black The guitar is an instrument with limitless possibilities. Almost every style of music can be performed on the guitar from classical, to ragtime and rock. Too many of us limit our playing to formulaic and repetitive strumming that often can get in the way of the beauty of the music we want to teach and perform. This workshop will focus on exploring new ways to open up your creative pallet and rethink how the guitar can become an extension of yourself. We will learn fingerpicking and fingerstyle exercises as well as explore how the entire neck of the guitar is in your command. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Music for Thriving ECC Open Space ECE ED SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Naomi Less Positive psychology aims to help students thrive by presenting a more holistic perspective on what it means to be well and feel happy. Scientifically, music has been proven to help foster deeper social connections, releasing oxytocin which helps increase bonding and trust between people. We will explore concrete tools for musicians and non- musicians to use with all ages in a variety of settings. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Building Communities of Healthy Masculinities Board Room ED SL WL RC SCC STC Sam Blustin How do we create communities that foster and encourage healthy expressions of masculinity? Through song, text study, and discussion, we'll explore what healthy expressions of masculinity look like and how we as leaders and role models can foster and encourage these expressions. Participants will leave having experienced one model of encouraging these types of communities, as well as having explored different ways that we can be engaged in this sort of work in our day to day interactions. We will also begin to build a community of people seriously engaging in this work, serving as resources for one another. People of all gender identities are encouraged to attend. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM SLBC Choir Black Box Theater ECE ED MM SL WL DSC RC SCC STC Josh Ehrlich Deepen your connection to both musical and biblical language by singing new 4-part choral settings of ancient text. We'll learn a piece with words from this week’s parshah, Mishpatim, which we’ll then perform for the whole SLBC community! Come away with an enhanced appreciation for the power of written words and notes to ignite our minds and hearts in study and song. 4:40 PM-5:50 PM Lifnayhem: Each Face Has A Trace Beit Midrash ED WL RC STC Rabbi David Ingber The Torah commands Moses to place (tasim) laws before (lifnayhem) each person. Quite literally, this means placing the law or presenting to each, unique face. As teachers, as parents, and as friends, we are instructed to see the one before whom we stand in their uniqueness, in their particularity, in their radical and radiant singularity. In fact, one can't really understand the focus in Judaism of treating one another ethically without understanding the profound importance of the human face. We will study texts and play with a few meditations that deepen this understanding. 6:00 PM-7:20 PM Dinner and Song Session Gym 7:30 PM-8:40 PM Breathing New Life into Liturgy Meeting Room A/B ED MM SL WL Cantor Ellen Dreskin, Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe and Eliana Light Come explore a variety of liturgical moments and how they are enhanced by movement, contemplation, music, sign language, conversation, and other techniques for engaging a variety of prayers of all ages in our communal gatherings.