11:05:17 I was just about to hit the record button
11:05:24 So I am Jenica Davis, Hockett and I work in lifespan faith engagement, and I am really excited to have Lily in an Evan on today.
11:05:37 So we 3 can share about the new Dr. lead youth, ministry orientation use ministry volunteer orientation, so i'll pass it over to Lillian.
11:05:54 Hey? Everyone Sorry to interrupt earlier. but I can hear you now.
11:05:58 I hope you can hear me my name's lily and drab, Reddick and i'm on the congregation a livestock in the southern region, and say to be here and thank you for coming wanting to learn
11:06:08 more about this new series, and I want to welcome evan thank you I'm Evan Carvel Zimmer in the central East region, and i'm super excited that we've got this new resource and glad that those
11:06:23 are here in sort of on zoom are here and anyone who's listening.
11:06:27 You're considering this, and and thinking about how to how to work with your volunteers.
11:06:33 I want to invite you all to introduce yourself in the chat and with a special address.
11:06:41 If you are thinking to yourself, you know I I bet after this i'm going to want to follow up with somebody to kind of work through how it could be implemented in my congregation, or if there's anybody who wants to partner on
11:06:52 doing it across congregations so if that's you put your location in your email in the chat, and then y'all can connect with each other after the session.
11:07:07 So I wanna start with just doing a little demo and telling you about the course, and then we'll open it up for questions
11:07:27 So by raise with hands. who has taking a course on you you institute before?
11:07:36 Oh, okay, exciting lots of new folks. So you just go to.
11:07:43 And here you you institute dot org and If you want to just search and take a look at the at the training, then you can just go down to the search, bar, and then, when you are ready to make an account you will there will be a
11:07:59 little sign in. let's do it together there'll be a little sign in login register, button up here, and that's just a super easy register.
11:08:12 So the easiest way to get there is just down at the in the search bar to search youth.
11:08:16 And that's one of the first things that pops up and what's nice is that it'll show you all the other stuff that's tagged youth in you you institute that you can take and it's this first one
11:08:26 with the Red Rock and the person repelling down the Red Rock; and if you take the course, you will learn why we chose that as our as our first, or as our our image.
11:08:38 So in the course there's 4 topics healthy adults roles and relationships, safety, youth, empowerment and community and covenant building.
11:08:51 And if you scroll down past our introduction, these are all the folks that are presenters and speakers in the series, and then just right down at the bottom.
11:09:04 These the topics are laid out. in order so you just expand topic number one, which is all the preparation that you need to be able to facilitate the course.
11:09:16 It'll tell you what to have on hand and It'll give you some background information and for example in the in the Oh, i'm not logged in in the safety.
11:09:32 Section. it'll prompt you that you need to have like which documents you need to have on hand from your own safety policies to be able to share that with your youth advisor group or anyone else who's
11:09:46 volunteering with youth. And then each section has a video that you would watch with your group or send them the the link to watch.
11:10:05 And
11:10:06 Some questions like that's the video and some images that you would share.
11:10:14 And then so a case. study that you would then go over with your group together as part of processing the content from that from that section.
11:10:27 And this is a one time like you. You buy this course.
11:10:30 You could use it this year. You can use it halfway through this year, and you can use it next year and perpetuity it because we can update this course.
11:10:38 As new information becomes available.
11:10:44 So I'm gonna end it there and pass it over to Lillian, who has some questions from are that that have come in. already, and while Lillian is answering them, feel free to think of what questions you have about implementing
11:11:02 this and we'll open it up for questions after our Faqs.
11:11:08 Yeah. and I appreciate folks of our already put some questions in the chat, so we can address those and thank you. Some of you.
11:11:16 Here were actually the people that sent in some of these, so you might recognize them
11:11:24 So the first question we received is, is the material new, or can I find this somewhere else?
11:11:29 You know, folks are wondering. is this on Youtube somewhere? is it like a rehashing of old training that I can just find somewhere else without having to commit to the whole series?
11:11:39 I'm really excited to share this is all brand new material. So every video, every interview, all the discussion, the team that put this together from your lifespan faith engagement and congregation life departments.
11:11:53 We teamed up to make a brand new course. so that is really exciting, and see only place you can get it.
11:12:00 We also got a question about the purchase price, and I really appreciate this being lifted up.
11:12:06 So I was wondering the $30. What is that just for the Dr.
11:12:11 Or does every person who takes the class do they have to pay that amount? and i'm really glad this was asked, because I know people are thinking about budgets right now, and we want to utilize our funds to the
11:12:25 highest potential. So this cost is for the facilitator to access the course in the U Institute.
11:12:32 So it's just one price, one cost for you as their director of Religious education, or as your religious professional in your conference information.
11:12:43 So if you want your well, let me wait. Let me show you this one.
11:12:47 So this is part 2, and the person asked Well, okay, if I pay but I don't really have the opportunity.
11:12:55 I don't have the time to let people watch it all in the same room.
11:12:59 I'd love to just have people watch the videos on their own time.
11:13:05 And then we come together to have the discussions. That is just fine.
11:13:08 We encourage that if that's what works best for you So what we came up with to answer this request was, Tell allow you to send those links.
11:13:20 Those you can find their online. they're in the you institute You're very free, as the religious professional who has purchased this training to share the links to the videos with the folks taking the class
11:13:35 So this question actually came out of the professionals, putting it together, wondering.
11:13:41 Okay, When would you all be doing this? I saw a question in the chat from Sierra, Marie, about time.
11:13:49 Do you have time to facilitate this kind of training?
11:13:54 So each session we work really hard to get it down to 75 min each, and the 75 min is video.
11:14:01 But it's also discussion and some activities. in there we're trusting you as religious professionals.
11:14:07 If you need to condense it 2 an hour it's easily modified, and we know that something that you can do, and we've made it really clear the times for each.
11:14:18 So you can pick and choose if needed. if you need to condense it down to a shorter amount of time.
11:14:27 So we got a question about prerequisites, if you will like.
11:14:33 Do you need? What do you need in order to facilitate this?
11:14:37 They asked specifically. Do I need to be a member of Loretta in order to facilitate this series?
11:14:44 So you don't. There are no prerequisites we are asking that your Dr.
11:14:51 Your Director of faith formation. that your religious professional facilitate this: it's not something that your participants can just like log in and do individually.
11:14:59 Really it's customize for the group to work together on this
11:15:08 And we are wondering what questions we might have from the floor.
11:15:15 And this is recording. We want to let you know that. So if you prefer not to show up on the recording, we can catch you out, or I recommend, just put your questions in the chat, and we can address them that way speak as you feel that no need
11:15:27 to.
11:15:58 So I know we've had some folks who've done a ue course before. Does this seem fairly intuitive to you, just to navigate in the system
11:16:19 I would say, Hi! i'm jen from Nashville, and I would say
11:16:22 So I purchased it and started doing it myself.
11:16:27 Just before our big training we we actually were having the training, and already had a plan for our volunteers.
11:16:34 So for for this year for this fall. I just sent out a couple of the modules that early modules.
11:16:42 You are youth volunteers Who then came together at our regular training and just as a supplement, basically, and a starting point.
11:16:50 And then, hopefully, we'll send out some of those links later on in the year, and then be able to incorporate it next year more fully.
11:16:59 It was, I would say, for me starting the navigation process.
11:17:04 It it. I kept bouncing back to to the video like of the the screen of the presenters and stuff.
11:17:10 So it just. it took a little bit of navigation.
11:17:13 But eventually I got there, so that's just feedback hang with it.
11:17:18 If if you all are having a little trouble i'll i'll take that next question.
11:17:25 You're welcome to use the content as works for you we are not in the business of running your training for you.
11:17:33 Where? So if the question is, can I watch the content and compact the information to present to your leaders? Absolutely.
11:17:39 If you want to take this information in, and instead of having them watch the videos, you want to treat those videos as a reminder for you about what you wanna cover absolutely go for.
11:17:49 That We created this out of consistent feedback for many people, including Tracy.
11:17:56 Thank you, Tracy, for continuing to get on my case about this, about how really great it would be to have Ua people up on the screen saying things instead of you.
11:18:05 The religious educator, so you can then facilitate the conversation, instead of always being the person saying, This is what we expect.
11:18:12 So. if that's not what you need you want to compact the information go for it.
11:18:18 That's that's up to you we trust you for your program
11:18:30 I just Wanna read: Allow this good feedback from Jessica.
11:18:33 You you Institute was quiet for a bit but i've used it in the past.
11:18:38 Love the platform. Very easy to use thank you that's great to hear
11:19:07 Any questions questions about the content we're actually going to give you a little sneak preview at the end of our time together.
11:19:14 So you're going to be able to see one of the videos. but we're here to answer content
11:19:20 You know how to implement, even if you want to ask each other I see Jen's already been working through it.
11:19:26 But we wanted to bring you together to ask questions, but also so you could see each other and know who might be.
11:19:33 Considering this, so I came a couple of minutes late i'm Sorry I walked out another meeting to come to this one.
11:19:42 So if this is already described, I apologize. How long are each of the videos?
11:19:49 Is there an average length of time? Yeah, the videos are between 7 and 15 min long.
11:19:59 So each session is designed to be about 75 min long, and that includes, maybe up to 30 min of video.
11:20:07 And then 45 min of discussion we we really broke up these modules, and so different P.
11:20:15 Teams worked on them so like the safety one has one short video and 1 30 min Video: I think that's the longest video in the in the series.
11:20:24 The other ones have much more digestible. I think.
11:20:28 15 min, and then conversation, but we put all the safety in in one
11:20:37 Should we just run through the 4 modules and just give a brief description?
11:20:40 What's in them. Thank you Lily. and then you go first, right, I will, and I was looking to screen share the the website, so I could just show it to you.
11:20:51 But I I can tell you about it, too. So if you saw when Jenica was going through the different dropdown menus, we have a piece on your Dru Prep.
11:21:01 Just giving you some background information. just so you know you know what you're getting into moving into the series.
11:21:08 We start with roles and relationships and we've got Eric Bliss, who's on our team, and also Reverend Erica Baron.
11:21:17 Speaking about appropriate roles and relationships. Oh, yes, thank you, Jennifer, for adult advisors.
11:21:23 So one thing it was said earlier, we wanted to offer you something so you don't always have to get up there and be the the one.
11:21:32 And being the subject matter expert, too. One thing I love about being ua staff is Sometimes we can say things that it might be hard for you to say so.
11:21:41 We get really deep into appropriate boundaries, roles and relationships, and give examples around this.
11:21:47 So, especially if you have new youth volunteers. coming in they're coming in strong with the right information upfront around these things because we know how important it is, and then moving on from roles in relationships we get into one of
11:22:01 our most important topics, and i'll pass on to Evan because they were instrumental in that.
11:22:08 So this opens with a just a 5 min video of me and Sarah Lammer talking about the Arc. of improved emotional physical sexual safety in the Ui over time that's just to give people some context, and those of you who've
11:22:22 been religious educators for a while. I see a bunch of you know that we have come quite a long way, and the pandemic has done nothing to to stop our question for high safety for our teams.
11:22:38 Across every Unitarian Universalist program that they encounter.
11:22:40 So then, Annie Scott, as an experience for this educator, and I present the just core basics of what a safe program looks like, and what should be in a safe congregations policy.
11:22:53 And what we expect from adults. in terms of supervision in terms of having policies, including, like I mentioned incident reports.
11:23:04 And why you need an instant report. Why, you need to follow the policies. even if you disagree with them.
11:23:11 Really trying to give you some backup on your safe congregation policy.
11:23:15 Basically. I I don't think the details of those are surprising to you.
11:23:19 If you've been following regular ua updates and what we consider current best practices in use, safety, and I certainly can give you website resources as well.
11:23:30 I think they're linked in there. but I can always give you a website to back everything up.
11:23:34 But this is so that you don't I know some congregations Have some people who've been around a long time who are like, Why do we need 2 adults in the room?
11:23:43 Or why are we doing background tracks, or why whatever? And and they are difficult to get on board with some changes in how we do things, I say when we know better we do better.
11:23:58 And so I really hope that providing this explicit content will help if if the's what you're experiencing, and some of you may, or or even over that safety hump in your congregations and in the case
11:24:08 studies there like other places. I it in my experience really helps.
11:24:14 When adults, working with youth wrestle with something sticky to think about.
11:24:19 Well, what should have happened? What could we do instead? What would I do if I encountered that?
11:24:24 And these case studies are focused on harm to sell for others.
11:24:27 Reporting in like, What What do you do? Who do you share that with
11:24:32 Because I really want your when you work with your volunteers for them to leave, knowing who do.
11:24:37 I tell what to How do I do it who's responsible for what?
11:24:41 So that information gets where it needs to go, and and youth get the care they need
11:24:50 Jennifer, I can do this one, and maybe with the last one.
11:24:54 So the third module is about you've had old partnerships.
11:24:59 So these are all stand alone, if you will, but they also build on each other.
11:25:04 So in roles and relationships we're trying to identify what's inappropriate role for adults safety.
11:25:11 You're getting all that good foundational knowledge and then in youth adult partnerships.
11:25:16 You're applying it so they're offering some real good case studies for your group to wrestle with.
11:25:22 And this is why it's so important to do this as a team, cause some of this stuff is like everyone was saying it's sticky.
11:25:29 It's there's, the tension here right of how to support youth appropriately, but allow them to lead, so they really get into that in this one and also go deeper into appropriate boundaries, because we just cannot
11:25:45 talk about bad enough which leads to Jennifer.
11:25:50 Yeah, I wanna say, this youth, adult partnership section was created by our collaborators.
11:25:57 Stevie Carminey and Alex Sherwood, who are not in today, but
11:26:02 They put a lot of a lot of hard console into creating this project.
11:26:06 With us, too, and the last section is covenant and community.
11:26:12 And this section is created by me and Shannon Harper, who's the new code director of Lifespan faith engagement.
11:26:20 This map of community building is what will be previewing in
11:26:24 At the end of the session today. so we talk about
11:26:31 You know the an updated version of those 5 steps of community building that, we used to kind of think of as linear And now we've created a a more expansive model.
11:26:40 We talk about ways of creating inclusive community thinking about accessibility thinking about when we're dismantling white supremacy in our youth spaces.
11:26:54 And Then we give a brief understanding of building a covenant, and the case studies are about sticky situations that might happen around covenanting, or when, when the covenant is not being upheld, in youth, spaces
11:27:10 and how Not just how adult leaders might handle it but how adult leaders, if they're the first to notice how they may encourage and support the youth in calling one another back into covenant
11:27:36 Yeah, appreciate that, Jen. Thank you for adding comments in the chat.
11:27:43 Are there any other questions that we could answer for you, or anything we could expound on from the training before we move into our preview time?
11:27:54 Go ahead, Tracy. i'm wondering so i'm heading into orientation with my teams and I'm wondering if especially something like the video on safety.
11:28:09 Would that be? Do you think that would be useful also for other teams?
11:28:13 Or is that really specifically focused on use it's very focused on youth.
11:28:20 But it's the same across all of our children in youth right that we have good emotional boundaries that we demonstrate how to be safe adults that we document gaps in our and our safety policies that We
11:28:35 appropriately report any way to child, or youth might be in danger.
11:28:40 So I I I think you could easily use it with your whole team and just sort of say, Yeah, so it's the the example of the case study with the 5 year old is going to be different than the 13 year old.
11:28:50 But here's the same person you report to here's the things we're listening for, and watching for yeah, I I think you could do that quite clearly.
11:28:57 Thank you.
11:29:03 There's no expiration this is not a time limited it's just here, and and I can imagine some of you might do a training where you really do all of it and some of you might do like the basic
11:29:20 orientation of what you need your people to have now, and it might be ongoing over time.
11:29:26 Some of you might use some of it this year and then more of it next year.
11:29:29 It's again. We trust you with your program and your people and you might find that, you know, if for example, you have youth who've joined the worship committee that the adult roles and responsibilities video would be perfect for
11:29:44 the adults that are on that committee, but they may not need. you know all the stuff that is specific for youth advisors.
11:29:52 Yeah, Robin, so i'm wondering is there because they will be much harder to corral is there any part of this that would be particularly important for mentors for the coming of age program to view I would preview the
11:30:11 pull out one of the ones on boundaries for them.
11:30:16 And if you could. Also as you watch the safety think i'm gonna go to minute whatever, and i'm gonna be i'm gonna show them that. So they'll listen to me about my policy. right you're welcome to to to do that because I know sometimes
11:30:32 that's challenging with the mentors. Okay, perfectly safe.
11:30:38 Adult, Why can I do? Xyz: Yeah. Yeah. is this: Are all the videos only available through you?
11:30:45 You Institute? or are they on Youtube where we could just pull some of it out and send it to them?
11:30:50 It. it's an unlisted link so we are trusting that you are accessing it through Yulie, and then you're giving it to your volunteers and you're not just like sharing it.
11:30:57 With congregations. you haven't paid but Yes, this is an easily distributed unlisted link.
11:31:04 And yes, you can use them any we were thinking of it through the lens of people running your youth programs because frankly, that's one of the the volunteer roles. that's hardest. to train for and we know that But if
11:31:17 you're like. Oh, that link I need that that video I want I want the middle school, or that you please use it.
11:31:24 Where, in the business of creating resources for you to use, not in the business of telling you how to how to do them or or gatekeeping?
11:31:31 Yeah, Thank you so much. Because, boy, we need it. Thank you.
11:31:34 Thank you. Thank you. Well, I wanna dub tail onto that because I saw on the chat the question about.
11:31:41 Can I use this to train my other volunteers?
11:31:43 It is focused on youth. But i'm thinking in particular as your reviewing these videos.
11:31:48 The roles in relationships. Video with reverend Erica Baron pretty much lays out how to be a successful volunteer in a congregation.
11:31:56 It doesn't really matter what you're doing she's talking about avoiding burnout setting boundaries having your own spiritual practice.
11:32:04 I mean to me, anyone that's working that's in the shared ministry in their congregation would benefit from that.
11:32:11 So look, watch it with that. I too. It is for working with youth.
11:32:15 But there are things that you might find useful for other applications
11:32:22 And I wanna struggle around to to the first question of is any of this available elsewhere, and why it's New I'm Jenica and I and Alex spent last fall reviewing almost every major video that we created recently as as the
11:32:38 youth roundtable on stuff, and so much has changed that we're like a lot of it's not usable
11:32:45 And then we said, what's what's most needed so we have other ideas of what could come but the world keeps changing, and it's amazing how our past things are like.
11:32:55 Yes, we could use this but we'd have to tweak this we'd have to tweak this we'd have to tweak this. we'd have to tweak this so this is like for now, but please use it for everything
11:33:03 because the the world has changed so much, so something is usable
11:33:22 Well, I see the potential of more questions after the preview.
11:33:24 Yeah. are you ready to watch it? So this video is from the Covenant and Community section and part.
11:33:35 One on the map of community building, with jenica and Shannon Harper, our new co-director of lifespan faith engagement.
11:33:40 It's about 7 min long. so if if you were hoping to hop on for a short time, and you're ready to hop off. You know we won't we won't be offended.
11:33:48 Please do what you need to do. and Then after the video Yeah, we'll keep hanging out here
11:34:01 Hi I'm Jenica Davis Hockett I'm.
11:34:05 A youth specialist with the Ua. and I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I am Shannon Harper.
11:34:10 I am also aid specialist at the Ua. I live in Dayton, and we wanted to share our insights into the community building and covenanting aspects of doing youth.
11:34:21 Ministry. So let's get started the foundations of youth ministry really is building community.
11:34:30 This isn't school this isn't work this is a place where they where youth are coming, because they want to engage with each other and want to go deeper with each other.
11:34:40 So we've done a lot of of work over the years comparing different community building models and and Shannon has created a map of community building that feels very specific to the kinds of community building.
11:34:54 We like to do in Unitarian universalism traditionally. we've talked about these different aspects of the map in a way that is, is more of a linear timeline.
11:35:04 We used to call it the Steps for community building, I believe, and we decided to move it into a map form, because we feel like these are things that we visit throughout our time together.
11:35:15 Sometimes in one day, sometimes over the course of a year together they're just places that we move around in the map, and there's no necessarily linear way, but just like with the map there are kind of places sometimes where you start so starting on the
11:35:29 beach of opening up where we start getting to know each other and sharing in a kind of low-risk way.
11:35:38 And as we move down that beach of opening up, we might find ourselves in the bonding harbor.
11:35:44 This might be some inlets or some ways into deeper community, but we're still kind of in the initial phases of getting to know one another and really forming an understanding of our similarities with each other.
11:35:58 We always encourage visiting places like the stretching river Stretching is like a time when the group through something together.
11:36:09 It can be something that's planned like we do a service trip together.
11:36:14 It can be something that's not planned like Perhaps your congregation is in search for new minister, and so together the group is part of that process and part of that transition.
11:36:25 And so it's something that the group can say that they've accomplished together, that they helped each other through.
11:36:32 And on the other side of it they are different people, or they are a different group.
11:36:35 And we definitely encourage moving towards stretching river, because if you try to stay just in the bonding harbor. you're likely to end up in the tepid bay, which is where it's like a nice you
11:36:48 know group that I could take or leave or doesn't feel really important to me, or I don't.
11:36:53 I don't think I am really important. to the group and So it's a taker leave kind of thing the forest of affirmation is very important, because that is where after we do the stretching after you do a hard things
11:37:06 after we do more sharing we wanna make sure that we're affirming each other, and we're affirming the group.
11:37:13 And so it's just kind of a positivity point of reference on the map, and a time for everyone to be acknowledged for who they are, and what they've been, to and why are we in community.
11:37:25 In the first place, one of the reasons is because we want to be able to heal together, to practice healing in ways that feel life affirming, and in ways that we might not be able to find in other parts of this society in our dominant
11:37:41 culture in our community map. there's always time for pausing and taking time to heal together.
11:37:49 We always have time to rest by the healing springs.
11:37:54 We come together in a spiritual community, because, as Reverend Barbara Meyer says, we cannot heal in isolation.
11:38:01 We heal together, we support each other's healing through ritual through spiritual practice.
11:38:06 This might look like deep reflection and creative expression, and a circle worship.
11:38:14 Or maybe really feeling heard in the ritual of sharing joys and concerns.
11:38:21 And a spiritual practice is something that's done with intention and attention that brings you back to yourself and connects you with something larger. and then you'll notice on our map. We have something we call the covenant lighthouse.
11:38:35 So we really believe that communities should be based on the principles of a covenant.
11:38:39 Obviously that's why We're doing this workshop but we made it a lighthouse, because it's really something that we think should be visible anywhere.
11:38:48 You are on the map. it's a it's a beacon of light.
11:38:50 It's something to look for when we do get a little lost. when we do feel like we are not jiving as a group.
11:39:00 We want to look for that Covenant lighthouse in that weekend of light, and always go back to the Covenant and see see how we can mend relationships, but also just grow together and one of the things that the
11:39:13 Covenant lighthouse is shining. a light on is those cliffs of exclusivity, and there are some exclusions that are important in the kinds of communities that we're building exclusions of racism and sexism and
11:39:27 humphobia and transphobia to allow from more space for the values that we do want to be bringing into our community.
11:39:35 And then there's the other side of the cliffs of exclusivity, which is the importance of creating a sense of belonging and inclusion for those who are excited about living the values of the community.
11:39:52 And all of this, you know, is often building towards this deeper sharing keeper, sharing the the canyons of deeper sharing.
11:39:58 They're not something that you start out with when you searching through your map.
11:40:01 It's something that you get to after going to many of these other places.
11:40:06 And this is where we're able to open up we're able to really share harder things about ourselves.
11:40:13 But really explore our own formation, our own identities, our own beliefs, and try them out with each other.
11:40:21 We call them the canyons, because sometimes it can feel like you can get a little lost in those.
11:40:27 But it's always important to like travel back out always go back to affirmation after deeper sharing, highly encouraged affirmation.
11:40:37 And, you know, moving, moving around the map and not just staying in the camp.
11:40:44 I know one of my favorite hobbies is canyonering, and so I love that the metaphor of the canyon for deeper sharing, because you don't go into a canyon unprepared you don't go
11:40:52 into a canyon without your buddy, and without a plan, and without a like.
11:40:57 And so, having those things in place, allow for deeper exploration and greater adventure together.
11:41:04 So you can see that Jenna can I love a good metaphor, and we had a lot of fun creating this map and thinking of the different land formations that go along with these stages that we go through in in community.
11:41:17 Building. but there's lots of room on this map as Well, because there's many things that groups go through together that aren't labeled yet.
11:41:24 So we also really encourage people to think about. what are the other things that both encourage community, and also like the of exclusivity in tepid Bay, are challenges to community, and how we move around those parts of the map as
11:41:39 well.
11:41:55 Well, thank you for sticking around and previewing that excellent video with us.
11:42:00 Jenica, you and Shannon are amazing in that.
11:42:02 We also wanna open it up. Are there questions because we know people said, Let me watch that and see if any questions arise.
11:42:10 So let's leave a little space for that
11:42:33 And Jessica says: I think we could invite the youth into creating the map for themselves.
11:42:38 Okay, that is one of the One of the activities is actually having the advisors come up with what other areas on the map can they imagine the group moving through throughout the year?
11:42:51 And I love bringing the the video and the creating of the map to youth as well
11:43:16 Yes, appreciating all the ideas in the chat. Thank you for sharing of different ways to apply the material Excellent
11:44:00 It says what I say. it sounds like there's a maybe with the end of the questions.
11:44:05 I don't know could be another one pops up but The creators of the course are easily contacted.
11:44:11 There is an email address in the course that I think lance and Jennifer's email at the moment. and will be distributed to any of us who would be the appropriate person to answer them.
11:44:22 So. So this is not the only opportunity to answer the questions either.
11:44:24 Those of you here in the room or if you're listening to the recording.
11:44:28 Please reach out with any questions that as you as you use the material.
11:44:33 I expect that will happen really, cause nobody has yet used the whole thing with all of their.
11:44:38 You know, advisors. So i'm sure there'll be some things that they call. Yeah, take a look around the room at the faces and the names and consider yourselves coal collaborators in bringing this to life you Will you will be the
11:44:53 first, and so we would love any feedback, and also feel free to reach out with any questions at all.
11:45:01 Thank you for spending perhaps your lunch hour with us.
11:45:06 I just wanna say if you ever run out of things to do, and you wanna include things that are more specific to younger children, we would gratefully be so.
11:45:14 Please to receive those as well. Yes, okay. So we are licensed for you.
11:45:21 Engagement is hiring children and families, ministry coordinators.
11:45:24 So expect more resources to come well I think that's Our time today, is one more question make the editing more fun.
11:45:46 If if we make an update, it'll be directly into the course that you're accessing So if a link is broken, we'll just fix the link if that needs to be a different resource, will change the resource, I think If
11:45:58 we were to make a huge update like, Oh, that video needs replacing.
11:46:03 For whatever reason we we can email, as I did already all the people who are signed up and say, Hey, there's a major, a major update, just like when you need a major update to your computer.
11:46:12 They, they tell you, but the minor ones just happen so you don't need to reload anything to access the and any updates that happen to be made
11:46:23 Yeah great question. Well, thanks y'all you know where to find us Appreciate it. I just wanted to jump on and say thank you so much for putting this together. I think it's an awesome resource and because of how everything is
11:46:38 plug and play, you can click and play, copy and paste really reduces the stress on all of us in a religious education.
11:46:47 So just Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is much needed.