Early Childhood Music & Worship Training for Clergy
One of the fastest growing areas of Peter & Ellen Allard’s work is educational clergy consulting, accomplished through Skype sessions or in-person customized private training. While recognizing that there is an incredibly high level of education that rabbis, cantors, and cantorial soloists bring to their work, it is apparent that providing them with Early Childhood music training would make them better prepared to work with and understand the youngest members of your congregation.
Teaching them a repertoire of child-friendly songs and showing them effective techniques for using these songs will help them do their work as clergy, educators and community leaders, whether for Tot Shabbat services, Intergenerational services, or Religious School Tefillah.
If you are a rabbi, cantor or cantorial soloist, Clergy Early Childhood Music & Worship Training sessions with Peter and Ellen will help you:
- Develop confidence in your ability to connect with and inspire children and their parents
- Understand why working with young families has been an identified as THE best way to grow a congregational community
- Bring appropriate and outstanding music to every setting involving children and families
- Work personally with composers of songs that are sure-fired winners, and learn their tips and techniques for presenting them
- Learn techniques for using music in settings that include worship services, religious school classrooms, and choirs
- Understand Early Childhood principles that will help you learn the when, where, why, what, and how to use music with children
As composers, Peter and Ellen’s songs are ubiquitous in Early Childhood settings across the country, both in Jewish and secular settings. Their Songs for a Jewish Headstart CD and songbook is in every preschool across North America. Songs such as Shofar Blast, Ten Plagues in Egypt Land, We Sing Shabbat We Sing Shalom, Standing At The Sea, Open My Lips, Lotsa Lotsa Matza, and For Trees, among many others, have become the gold standard in camps and synagogues.
In addition to their nine recordings and six songbooks, they have contributed significantly to:
The Tot Shabbat Handbook (URJ Press)
Torah Alive (URJ Press)
Sounds of Torah ((URJ Press/Soundswrite)
Manginot II (URJ Press)
The Complete Hanukah Songbook (URJ Press)
Open It Up (Behrman House)
They have been guest faculty at HUC’s Cantorial School in NYC, have led Tot Shabbat services at numerous URJ Biennial conferences, CAJE and NewCAJE, numerous Limmud, and are the Early Childhood faculty at Hava Nashira and the North American Jewish Choral Festival They are also the authors of the Got Shabbat Torah commentary series featured on the URJ/ECE website, written for Early Childhood teachers and parents of young children.
Distinguish yourself as a trailblazer. Study with two people uniquely qualified to mentor and help you to achieve a higher level of expertise and confidence in your life as a Jewish professional.
