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  • As a way of continuing to explore the themes from this workshop, follow these tips for using your creativity as part of your spiritual regimen: Take time to look at the art already around you. Often we begin to take for granted the art in our lives—in our homes, in our places of work, in public...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Practicing Our Faith, the website connected to Dorothy Bass's book, Practicing Our Faith. Includes sections on honoring the body, healing, and dying well. Alexander, Scott, ed. https://books.google.com/books?id=JTj3qkmoBAQC&pg=PP6&lpg=PP6&a… Little Book of Wholeness and Prayer: An Eight-Week...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Follow these tips for using your body as part of your spiritual regimen: Move. This means more than just exercise. Look for every opportunity to put your body into motion—to walk, dance, run, jump, stretch, reach. Move as much as your spirit and physical abilities allow. Use your senses....
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • McLennan, Scotty. Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning. HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Murry, William. Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century. Skinner House Books, 2006. Rasor, Paul. Faith Without Certainty: Liberal Theology in the 21st...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Use your responses on Handout 1: Identifying a Mind Practice to engage with something that fascinates you. If you journal, take some time afterward to write about the experience and its relationship to your spirituality....
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Unitarian Universalist Spiritual Directors' Network—A loose association of Unitarian Universalist clergy and laity who provide spiritual direction to others. Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation—One of the leading trainers of ecumenical spiritual directors, the Shalem Institute maintains a...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Continue to explore some of the questions brought up by the workshop, either on your own or with a friend. These questions include: How and when do I experience the sacred? What mindsets and practices help me experience the sacred? What else would help me at this point in my spiritual development?
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • WorshipWeb—an online resource for Unitarian Universalists. The Congregation of Abraxas Worship Reader—includes several writings by Unitarian Universalist ministers. Arnason, Wayne, and Rolenz, Kathleen. Worship That Works. Skinner House Books, 2007. A guidebook for revitalizing our worship life,...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Wikstrom, Erik Walker. Simply Pray: A Modern Spiritual Practice to Deepen Your Life. Skinner House Books, 2005. Nhat Hanh, Thich. http://www.amazon.com/Meditation-Simple-Program-Translating-Spiritual/d…: A Simple 8-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals into Daily Life. Nilgiri Press,...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Spirituality and Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys Zen Mountain Monastery's Eight Gates Training Program The Council on Spiritual Practices Alexander, Scott, ed.
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Reflect in your journal on the question, "How can (or how does) participation in communal worship enhance my spiritual journey?" Talk with friends, family, co-workers, or housemates about significant spiritual experiences they have had (or have longed for) in worship. Tell them about your...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Read Handout 1: A Unitarian Universalist Prayer Bead Practice. Experiment with it. You may wish to create your own set of prayer beads as described in the handout. You can also use the handout to compose your own personally meaningful prayer, with or without beads....
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Share the "Eight Spheres of Spiritual Growth" model with a friend, housemate, or family member. Talk about the kinds of spiritual practices you have engaged in and those you wish to learn more about, and ask the same of your conversation partner. If you have children in your life, discuss...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
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    Leader Resource | September 30, 2015 | For Adults | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • This handout was created by Spiritual Directors International and is used with permission. Printing This Handout Download a high-resolution copy of this Handout (PDF) for printing.
    Handout | September 30, 2015 | For Adults | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • Material excerpted from the book I WILL NOT DIE AN UNLIVED LIFE © 2000 Dawna Markova, with permission from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC Newburyport, MA and San Francisco, CA www.redwheelweiser.com.Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History and/or sign up for Starstruck, their email...
    Handout | September 30, 2015 | For Adults | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • Activity time: 10 minutes Post the closing words so all can see them. Shuffle and set out Blessing Cards, text side down, and invite each participant to take one and hold it. Lead them in saying together the words for extinguishing the chalice: We close our workshop by extinguishing the chalice....
    September 30, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • Activity time: 20 minutes Say: Spiritual journaling is a way be conversant with yourself about those things in life that touch you, the things that puzzle you, the ones that make your heart smile, the things that break your heart, and those happenings in life that hold deep beauty and bring feeli...
    September 30, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • Activity time: 5 minutes Say: This moment, and the next, and the next are not repeated and not repeatable “nows” in your life journey. Each one is a particular moment on your timeline. Each “now” is also a moment on the four-and-a-half-billion-plus-year timeline of planet Earth. We are part...
    September 30, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
  • Activity time: 25 minutes Tell participants that you are going to lead a ceremony, and will begin with two quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History: We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the...
    September 30, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope