Tribe invest in their leaders during an ‘Engage’ing weekend
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Thursday 8th September 2016

This weekend Tribe held their third Engage conference in Basingstoke for over 60 Youth professionals United Synagogue communities and Tribe Office. The event provided a platform for participates to build their skills and share their innovative ideas, such as interactive Youth Services and making lesser-known festivals exciting, with each other. Delegates also had the opportunity to deepen existing connections and relationships with their colleagues in other communities.

With the participants engaging with, educating and inspiring thousands of young people across the United Synagogue each week, Tribe are investing in these excellent leaders and giving them the tools to make sure that they can create innovative initiatives.

Throughout the event there were many excellent sessions given by experts in their fields on contemporary topics from how to make exciting youth services to how to engage millennials, given by guest-speaker Rabbi Ari Sytner, Director of Community Initiatives at Yeshiva University. Debbie Stone, Associate Director of Education at NCSY, gave a talk about making education as addictive as the internet. Assistant rabbinic couples also had bespoke talks on subjects like the importance of the work they do and about their professional aspirations and progression.

This year the annual event was extended to a weekend instead of one day due to the success of the previous conferences.

Ben Vos, Tribe Community Liaison Manager, said: “Tribe have an amazing team of Youth Directors and assistant rabbinic couples and we are always looking to provide opportunities for them to enhance their skillsets. The Engage conference has been a huge success and I’m excited that our leaders can put the strategies that they take away with them into practice in their local communities.”