Caroline is available for facilitated workshops, teaching residencies, artist-in-residence engagements and retreats, and educational programming catered directly to your organization’s specifications and needs. For over 20 years, Caroline has designed and facilitated workshops and educational programming for schools, universities, non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, community institutions, summer camps, and private groups on an array of topics.
She is a trained facilitator in diversity and equity education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s Programs for Awareness in Cultural Education (PACE). She is a facilitator for the Dialogue Arts Project, on faculty at the Avodah Institute for Social Change, and on faculty at Narrative Academy. Previously, she was the Project Manager of Curriculum for JustMedia, and a long-time Youth Mentor at Urban Word, NYC. She was also on faculty for Foundation for Jewish Camp’s annual Cornerstone Fellowship (2016 – 2023), on faculty at Brandeis University’s precollege BIMA summer arts-intensive program (2016-2017), and has served on faculty for many other short and long-term programs. She has also written curriculum for middle and high schools in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education.
Workshop topics have included, but are not limited to:
- Belonging & inclusion
- Social justice & anti-oppression
- Racial equity & antiracism
- Addressing & unpacking antisemitism
- Body image, fat positivity, & body neutrality
- Eating disorder recovery, awareness, & prevention
- Consent & sexual assault prevention and response
- Sex positivity
- Gender equity
- Social identity
- Jewish identity & Jewish learning
- Mental health advocacy & wellness
- Empowerment & self-esteem
- Finding & using your authentic voice
- Telling/sharing your story, & other storytelling practices
- Leadership training & empowerment
- Holiday/festival-focused programming (i.e. Shabbat, High Holidays, etc.)
- Creative writing
- Train-the-trainer professional development
- Using poetry as a tool for community building
- Journalism and freelance writing
- “Voice Your Identity: Writing About Social Identity”
- “Body Empowerment: Writing As a Tool for Self-Care”
- “Spoken Word Activism: Using Poetry As a Tool For Social Justice & Change”
- “Words Create Worlds: Using Art for Social Change”
- “The Power of Words: Train-the-Trainer Workshop for Educators & Community Leaders”
- “From Features to Columns: Finding Your Freelancing Niche”
- “What’s Your Leadership Voice?”
- “Restoring My Soul: A Fresh Look at “Modah/Modeh Ani”
- “How To Talk About Body Image & Create a Positive Body Culture at Camp”
- “Body Image with a Jewish Lens: A Poetry Writing Workshop”
- “Owning Your Truth: Exploring & Unpacking Gender Identity at Camp”
Workshops typically range from 1 to 2 hours, or as part of a day-long or half-day long retreat. Caroline is also available for multi-day residencies and retreats that can include both performances and workshops, all developed to fit your organization or school’s unique content and thematic needs. Through consultation calls and pre-event communication, Caroline crafts programming that directly addresses your learning objective and goals.
In addition to one-off workshops and multi-day residencies and retreats, Caroline has also served in ongoing and longterm faculty positions teaching creative writing, storytelling, and spoken word poetry for the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s annual Cornerstone Fellowship, Urban Word NYC, Brandeis University’s precollege BIMA summer arts-intensive program, JCC Manhattan’s Jewish Journey’s Project, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism’s Makom Shabbaton, Hillel International’s Dwell retreat, and elsewhere, and is available for longterm and ongoing faculty positions for residencies and retreats.
For all booking inquires, please email: booking@carolinerothstein.com.