Activity
Materials for Activity
- Optional: Cordless microphone
- Optional: Pulpit or podium
- Optional: Photocopies of Handout 2: Caring for One Another for all participants
Preparation for Activity
- Review the story Caring for One Another (Handout 2). Practice reading it aloud to ensure that you will present it effectively.
- Optional: If you would like each participant to have a copy of the story you will read aloud, print out and photocopy the handout.
Description of Activity
Invite participants to sit comfortably and listen to the story as you read it aloud from Handout 2: Caring for One Another. You may wish to use a pulpit or podium and/or a cordless microphone to ensure that all participants can hear you.Pause at the conclusion. Then say:
There is something so powerful about having the deep and sacred aspects of your work and your relations with people named. There is something sacred about having someone pay attention to you, hold your hands, honor what you do, and ask for your healing.
Including All Participants
Be sure that all participants can hear you read the story. As needed, you may wish to arrange for ASL interpretation at this workshop and/or provide a printed copy of the story to participants who are deaf or hard of hearing.Last updated on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
