Bend Or Break: Intelligent Pathways To Building Resilience **FULL TO CAPACITY**
In person, one-day workshop
As work and life grow more uncertain, resilience has become a critical skill, especially as we navigate both professional change and heightened personal and communal pressures.
This interactive workshop reframes resilience as a trainable mental fitness, equipping you with practical tools to respond to challenge with clarity, calm, and flexibility.
You’ll strengthen the mental, emotional, and behavioural muscles needed to adapt, recover, and thrive — learning how to bend rather than break.
Hen Mazzig in conversation with Noa Hoffman
In partnership with JW3 and media partner the Jewish News, join us for a special evening with globally recognised digital influencer, speaker, educator and author, Hen Mazzig.
With over 1 million followers across his social media platforms, come and hear Hen share what has worked best for him to change hearts and minds when both fighting the good fight, and flipping the script to remind the world that Jewish identity is all about joy, creativity and life.
Writing Effective Emails and Proposals **FULL TO CAPACITY**
In person, half-day workshop
In a fast-paced, multi-channel world, this session helps you write emails and proposals that get noticed, read, and acted on.
You’ll learn how to capture attention quickly using the proven AIDA framework, active voice, and modern tools like AI and video — without losing authenticity. This practical workshop will sharpen your written communication by keeping the reader firmly at the centre of everything you write.
Creating Impact as an Authentic Leader (2 Part Course) PART 1: Making Good Choices About Our Impact as Leaders **NEW DATE ADDED**
online, two 2-hour workshops
In part 1 of this online workshop, facilitator Diane Wilkinson guides you in exploring how your everyday choices shape your leadership impact.
Using the Choice Impact Model ©, you’ll learn to align your intentions with how your actions and words are perceived and reflect on how you show up and communicate. You’ll also discover practical ways to make ‘pink star’ choices that boost clarity, influence, and overall leadership effectiveness.
Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference
Save the Date! Join us for our annual Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference for a day of learning and network opportunities. Look out for more details to follow.
Creating Impact as an Authentic Leader (2 Part Course) PART 2: Using Stories to Show our Value as Leaders **NEW DATE ADDED**
online, two 2-hour workshops
In part 2 of this online workshop, facilitator Diane Wilkinson focuses on using storytelling to bring your values to life and strengthen your leadership impact.
You’ll learn how to choose, shape, and deliver stories with clarity, authenticity, and purpose, while matching story type and structure to your goals.
The session is hands-on, giving you the opportunity to craft your own leadership story and receive feedback on both content and delivery.
Dealing with Conflict **FULL TO CAPACITY**
In person, half-day workshop
Very few people seek out conflict and most of us avoid it like the plague. Yet without it, we risk keeping everything so “safe” that we never reach our full potential.
This session helps you reframe conflict, adjust your mindset, and build practical skills for positive, assertive communication where everyone can win. You’ll gain the confidence to take those first brave steps and manage conflict in a healthier, more effective way.
Introduction to Conscious Leadership
In person, one-day workshop
This workshop introduces conscious leadership - helping you lead with purpose, impact, and a future-focused mindset, while managing day-to-day challenges.
Facilitated by Chris Cooper, you’ll explore practical ways to embody conscious leadership - driving positive change, supporting people and the environment, and developing the next generation of leaders.
You’ll leave equipped to take brave first steps toward leading with intention and creating a better world.
Presenting with Impact and Confidence
In person, one-day workshop
Presenting was once the job of the few, now it’s the job of the many. Most of us have an element of our role that involves speaking to groups – in meetings, at updates and at events.
This one-day workshop equips you with the skills to plan and deliver content confidently, with style and impact, both in-person and online. You’ll learn to engage any audience and handle challenges on the spot, sharpening the practical skills that make presentations effective.
Using Empathy With Assertiveness
online, 3-hour workshop
This online workshop helps you develop a core aspect of emotional intelligence - empathy - and shows how it can strengthen your assertiveness.
Facilitated by Conscious Leadership Coach Chris Cooper, you’ll gain clarity on what empathy and assertiveness truly mean, why they matter, and how to apply them in work and life.
Through interactive exercises, you’ll leave with practical tools to combine these skills and communicate more effectively.
Tech Connect
Join us as we host another event for those working in the Jewish tech space. Hear from a phenomenal panel of experts and enjoy delicious food and drinks as you network with a wide range of people from across the tech sector.
How to be Less Busy and More Productive at Work
In person, half-day workshop
Constant busyness doesn’t always lead to effectiveness - and feeling overwhelmed can undermine both productivity and wellbeing.
In this half-day workshop, productivity expert Juliet Landau-Pope introduces practical, research-based time management strategies to help you focus on what matters most and get things done.
Participants at any career level will leave with tools and motivation to work more effectively, reduce overwhelm, and feel more in control of their time.
International Women's Day 2026
Join us this International Women’s Day for an inspiring morning with Jane Lush (Former Chair BAFTA and BBC Controller Entertainment & Comedy) as our guest speaker on Thursday 5th March at 9:30am. This year’s theme, #GivetoGain, explores how generosity, collaboration, and lifting others up can create powerful personal and collective growth. Come along to celebrate and connect, reflect, and be inspired by meaningful conversations and shared insights.
ChanukahLIVE!
Join us at 5pm on Tuesday 16 December to make ChanukahLIVE! the biggest and brightest celebration London has ever seen. Be part of the light.
Regional Professionals' Conference
We are committed to providing high-quality opportunities for professional leaders to reflect, connect and learn together. Our regional Jewish Community Professionals Conference allows just that, providing a space away from your every day work.
*SOLD OUT* Measuring and Evaluating Your Impact
This half-day Follow the Leader session is for those who are keen to know more on the subject of evaluation and learning. The focus is on making evaluation proportionate, both to your resources and to the people you work with. It takes a practical, structured approach to helping you decide what to measure and why, and how to measure that as effectively and efficiently as possible; with a particular focus on using surveys.
Jewish Community Trustees' Conference
Our annual Jewish Community Trustees’ Conference will provide learning and networking opportunities for Chairs and Trustees’ from across the community. This is held in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network.
An Evening with Glenn Cohen
Join the Jewish Leadership Council, Beacon and WZO UK on Sunday 19th October, for a rare behind-the-scenes account of the ongoing hostage crisis. We will be joined by former chief psychologist of Mossad Glenn Cohen, who will share a powerful, first-hand insights into human resilience, drawing on the experiences of hostages and how they endured, coped and continue to recover. Food and drink will be served.
October 7th Commemorative Event
As we approach two years since the horrific events of 7th October, 2023, when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdering 1,200 innocent men, women, and children and taking 251 people hostage, we invite you to join us in remembrance.
Please join us for a commemorative event to honour the lives lost and affected on 7th October 2023 and to call for the release of the 50 still held in captivity.
Further information to follow.
Trustee Development Programme - Charity Finance and Fundraising - What You Need to Know (online)
The Trustees’ Development Programme is aimed at aspiring trustees. This is a three part programme that provides training on key areas that aspiring Trustees need to be aware of. This is a joint programme in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN).
This session will focus on understanding charity finances and how you can support your organisations fundraising efforts.
Spark the Future
This summit, for people aged 21-26, will focus on addressing the drop-off many young Jewish adults experience after the immersive, structured environments of youth movements and university Jewish societies. It aims to empower participants to become grassroots leaders and community builders, equipped to create the kinds of spaces, experiences, and initiatives they need in this next stage of life.
Proudly Posting on Social Media
Join the JLC and JW3, in partnership with Beacon, for an honest and uplifting conversation diving into what it really means to show up Jewishly online.
We’ll hear from Jewish content creator and superstar chef Ben Rebuck about the highs, the hate, and how he’s stayed proud - and loud - in a digital world that doesn’t always make it easy.
Trustee Development Programme - How to Prepare for Your First Trusteeship (online)
The Trustees’ Development Programme is aimed at aspiring trustees. This is a three part programme that provides training on key areas that aspiring Trustees need to be aware of. This is a joint programme in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN).
This session will identify the skills you can bring to a trusteeship as well as practical insights from an expert charity lawyer.
Fundraising Forum
Hear from the Fundraising Regulator as they join us for this special forum where they will discuss their recently launched new code of practice.
Dealing with Conflict
Very few people seek out conflict and most of us avoid it like the plague. Yet without it, we risk keeping everything so “safe” that we never reach our full potential.
Healthy conflict can help us explore an issue more fully, embrace a range of approaches and make better decisions. The first step to better conflict management is to examine and adjust your attitude. Then it’s all about practising skills that lead to positive, assertive behaviour where hopefully, everyone wins.
You just have to be brave and take the first steps – this session will help you to do just that.
MarComms Forum - Developing and Understanding SEO
Award-winning digital marketing expert Daniel Tannenbaum will be sharing "How to rank you business to the top of Google" in this interactive workshop followed by a Q&A.
Facilitating and Chairing Effective Meetings with Confidence
Leaders today understand that executive presence, active listening, and self-awareness of the impact their behaviour and emotions have on others are essential skills to have.
Confidence in leaders’ ability to facilitate and chair effective meetings can be derailed when they are put on the spot, by one aspect of communication that often goes unrecognised - the “non-verbals.”
Join this Follow the Leader session to learn how to be the most engaging and authentic Facilitator/Chair.
Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference 2025
Join us on Thursday 22nd May, for our annual Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference. The event is aimed at community professionals at any stage of their career seeking leadership development.
AI Foundations: Skills, Tools and Techniques - for Non Managers/Decision Makers
AI technologies are transforming how organisations operate, and as an individual contributor in the not-for-profit sector, building foundational knowledge and practical skills in AI is essential. This workshop is designed to help you understand how to use AI tools, apply them responsibly, and deliver immediate value to your organisation's mission.
Strategic AI Adoption: Driving Change and Growth - for Managers/Decision Makers
As a leader in the not-for-profit sector, harnessing the power of AI responsibly is critical to achieving your organisation's mission and driving meaningful impact. This full-day program combines an expert-led morning session with a practical afternoon workshop to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to define and implement an actionable AI adoption strategy.
Through strategic discussions and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to align AI with your mission, address ethical and governance challenges, and build a roadmap to scale impactful initiatives.
The Future is Bright: The new generation of young trustees taking the community by storm!
Did you know that only 6% of Jewish charity trustees* are aged 35 or under? Join us at this networking drinks event to meet and hear from some of our most outstanding and talented young trustees who are bucking the trend, and the Young Trustees Movement.
How to be the Person Everyone Wants on their Team
In a world driven by people power, some people stand out. You know that person who walks into the room (virtual or real) and you just think, “You! We want you!” You don’t even know their skills or experience, but they have a vibe that puts them in demand. What’s their secret? This workshop will let you in on all the secrets…
Managing Change and Dealing with Resistance
This engaging session is an introduction to strategies to improve collaboration with your manager, enhance communication, and tackle workplace challenges effectively. Interactive elements include role-play exercises, group discussions, and real-world case studies, ensuring practical takeaways you can use straight away.
Marketing & Comms Forum
In this interactive session, Josh Gaventa (Account Manager at 8original) will focus on the art of mastering social media storytelling, from how to define your audience and story to how to make a digital difference.
JLC’s New International Women’s Day Conference 2025
Join us this International Women’s Day on Thursday 6th March 2025 for our newly designed, full-day conference and hear from one of the UKs most well known and successful businesswomen: Linda Plant (The Apprentice).
Managing Upwards
This engaging session is an introduction to strategies to improve collaboration with your manager, enhance communication, and tackle workplace challenges effectively. Interactive elements include role-play exercises, group discussions, and real-world case studies, ensuring practical takeaways you can use straight away.
Fundraising Forum
Join us for a forum session focused on how we can better use AI to enhance our fundraising methods. We will be joined by AI expert Levi Goldgrab who will share his knowledge and encourage a wider conversation about your hopes and concerns around AI in fundraising.
Adam Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) Applications NOW OPEN
Applications for the Adam Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) are now OPEN until Friday 28th February. The ASLP is Lead’s long-established programme for emerging lay and professional leaders in the UK Jewish community. Hear from participants and communal leaders and programme alumni on the impact of the programme.
Would you like to join the ASLP 2025-26? Find out more.
JLC’s Chanukiah back in Trafalgar Square over Chanukah
The JLC is proud to bring back the iconic Chanukiah at the heart of London to mark this festival, as well as lighting up the landmark lastminute.com London Eye.
March Against Antisemitism 2024
The JLC is proud to support CAA’s March Against Antisemitism in Central London on Sunday, 8th December.