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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person or online. You'll need materials for making care packages and artwork, envelope and stamp money. Choose someone outside the gathering who could use extra love and send them a care package.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. Participants contribute to shared purpose, express gratitude, and honor community bonds by contributing a meaningful medium, such as sand, to a shared container at the beginning of the event then taking some from the shared container at the end of the event.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. You'll need warm water and individual containers; option to include soap and lotion. Participants practice self-care, expressing tenderness, and experiencing humility by washing their own or another's feet.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Participants build confidence by receiving affirmation and widening self-understanding as others share what they notice about them or offering a blessing for them.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: 6+, in person or online. Receive appreciation, share kindness, and strengthen connections as participants rotate around concentric circles sharing meaningful compliments with one another.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Appreciate beauty and collaborate on meaning making as participants find objects to add to a tableau and create a story about it.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: 4+, in person. Practice listening, choose when to lead or follow, and coordinate as a group as participants add layers of sound to a group rhythm.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • 3 Jenga bocks with the words "embody, challenge, lead" written on them next to a colorful candle holder and on top of bits of blue and green cloth.
    This activity helps us begin to see the variation in our comfort with different words, to spark our capacity for growth and healing where hurt may live now...and to understand others better.
    Activity | July 18, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Families | From Whole Church
    Tagged as: Faith Development, UU Identity
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  • 3 Jenga bocks with the words "embody, challenge, lead" written on them next to a colorful candle holder and on top of bits of blue and green cloth.
    Take a box of plain Jenga® blocks and a variety of colorful sharpies into a small group discussion, board retreat, worship activity, or RE classroom
    Activity | July 18, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Families | From Whole Church
    Tagged as: Faith Development, UU Identity
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  • A close-up of a bat hanging upside down with a red background.
    What can we do when we feel afraid or grossed out by an animal or insect in nature?
    Activity | June 26, 2025 | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Diversity, Fear, Nature
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  • A red heart with the haiku: "The trees will soon bloom, Birds will chirp in great delight. Hopeful sounds abound." by Alicia LeBlanc
    Most haiku are about nature or everyday life. Can you write one about hope?
    Activity, Taking It Home | By Susan Dana Lawrence | June 22, 2025 | For Children, Youth, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Hope
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  • A graphic illustration shows a pyramid-like structure with stones scattered along its steps.
    You will need sand or soft dirt, a little water, some shells or pebbles, and a die. First, build a granary for storing millet—a structure two feet square.
    Activity | June 10, 2025 | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Children, Faith Development, Food, Interdependence, International, Teamwork
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  • Open shelves with an assortment of clothes
    By treating every person we encounter with respect, we convey our gratitude for things we use that others made.
    Activity | June 9, 2025 | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Accountability, Interdependence
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  • A Black man and a small child, wearing rubber boots, hunch down in the shallow part of a wide river. The child is dipping a small pink net into the water, guided by their father's hand. They're both gazing at the surface of the water.
    As leaders in our families, in stewardship of the interconnected web, and in justice activism, we each find our own flow. Like water itself, we might at different times embody power or depletion, nourishment of others or self-nourishment. Try this meditation together with your family.
    Activity | June 9, 2025 | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Environment, Nature
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  • A perfectly ripe strawberry
    Here is a way to bring a meditative, reflective attitude to the everyday, physical experience of eating.
    Activity, Taking It Home | June 6, 2025 | For Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Abundance, Food, Gratitude, Mindfulness, Thanksgiving
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  • A fireplace with a field stone hearth.
    Make a Symbolic Hearth and place it where family members gather. Light it to mark your time together and your connection with the earth and all its gifts.
    Activity, Taking It Home | June 6, 2025 | For Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Connections, Families & Faith Development, Tradition, Winter Solstice / Yule
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  • Sidewalk messages written in colorful chalk: "Love Wins," "We are One: Earth and People," "None of Us are free until all of us are free"
    Communities of all ages use colorful sidewalk chalk to share messages that embody our theology and shared values, with love at the center.
    Activity | June 3, 2025 | For Multigenerational | From Whole Church
    Tagged as: Faith Development, UU Identity
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  • Word cloud in the shape of a flame with "love" at the center and surrounded by justice, acceptance, gratitude, faith, share, care.
    This group of related activities helps to engage with the notion "Faith development is all we do. All we teach is Unitarian Universalism. The congregation is the curriculum."
    Activity | June 2, 2025 | For Multigenerational | From Whole Church
    Tagged as: Faith Development, UU Identity
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  • Children and adults hold colorful handmade posters with "Everyone is equal," "You are welcome here," "You are good," and "We care for each other and the world we share."
    Children and adults come together to talk about and make signs with messaging that reflects and proclaims their understanding of UU theology and faith identity.
    Activity, Curriculum | By Joy Berry, UU Congregation of Asheville, Asheville, NC | May 30, 2025 | For Multigenerational | From Whole Church
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Multigenerational Faith Development, UU Identity
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  • A set of six cards. The one on top has "justice" at the top, with a vertical axis labeled "accountability" and a horizontal axis labeled "love." There is a drawing of a broken heart with a bandage on it.
    We often talk about how our Shared Values are centered in Love, but the language in Article II also has language about accountability. This workshop provides an opportunity to engage with the values using both Love and Accountability.
    Activity, Workshop | By Renee Ruchotzke | May 3, 2025 | For Youth, Adults | From Shared Values
    Tagged as: Accountability, Equity, Generosity, Interdependence, Justice, Love, Pluralism, Transformation, UU Identity
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