• Worship or centering table and chalice
• Participant journals
• Writing materials, including paper, pens, pencils, color pencils, and markers
• Taking It Home handout

• Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy for all participants.

Make sure each participant has their journal and something to write with.

Invite participants to respond:

Think about the choices you have made in your life regarding engagement with social justice issues. How has your life situation-your age, your family situation, your gender, your gender expression, your ethnicity, your employment-affected the form your engagement has taken? Have you ever felt compelled to take up a cause, even though to do so might radically alter your day-to-day existence?

Allow ten minutes for writing in journals.

Invite a participant to come forward and extinguish the chalice as you say these words: "As we extinguish this chalice, may we let the light of our tradition kindle our hope for a better world."

Distribute Taking It Home and invite participants to continue to write in their journals between workshops.