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Part of Families, Jr. High School

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Introduction
From Families

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges....
Workshop-at-a-Glance
From Families

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 3 Activity 1: How Am I Feeling Today? 7 Activity 2: Families, Emotions, and Change 20 Activity 3: Family Role-Play 25 Faith in Action: That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling 30 Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: What Makes a Family Function Well? 15...
Spiritual Preparation
From Families

Some of us find it easy to express our feelings and others find it a challenge. Sometimes we make stereotypical expectations into reality; we assume the girls in a group will express their feelings with words and the boys will express their feelings with their bodies or not at all. We are...
Welcoming and Entering
From Families

Materials for Activity Printed photographs from Family Event 2 Preparation for Activity Print photographs or arrange for participants to do so Description of Activity Share Family Event 2 photographs....
Opening
From Families

Activity time: 3 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Gather participants in a circle. Invite participants to lead the chalice lighting. They can light the chalice and read either the words provided here or others of their choice....
Activity 1: How Am I Feeling Today?
From Families

Activity time: 7 minutes Materials for Activity Sheets of 8 X 11 paper Markers Masking tape Preparation for Activity Make a list of emotions. Include at least the same number of emotions as participants you could possibly have in attendance. Create signs....
Activity 2: Families, Emotions, And Change
From Families

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint and markers Description of Activity Tell participants that you will be focusing on families and emotions. Start the discussion with the following prompt: What are some emotions you feel in a family? List answers on newsprint....
Activity 3: Family Role-play
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Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Family Scenarios Family support services brochures Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, Family Scenarios. Make enough copies for each small group and leaders to have one....
Closing
From Families

Activity time: 5 minutes Description of Activity Gather participants together in a circle. Pragmatics: Ask for a volunteer to write some chalice lighting words for next time. For the next session, ask participants to bring objects that help express who they are and their identities as student,...
Leader Reflection and Planning
From Families

Contact youth or groups of youth and check in about the status of the photo-documentary contribution. Remind youth to bring cameras and personal identity objects. Gather artifacts participants have created during the program for use during the next session.
Faith In Action: That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling
From Families

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Contact numbers for local shelters, hospitals, or nursing homes Fleece, three yards per blanket Scissors Preparation for Activity See if the local hospital or nursing home would appreciate some warm and fuzzy fleece blankets....
Taking It Home: Families Function: Families Feel
From Families

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges....
Alternate Activity 1: What Makes A Family Function Well?
From Families

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Brochures from local family support services, both within and outside the faith community Description of Activity The terms functional and dysfunctional are prevalent in popular culture....
Family Scenarios
From Families

Assign a family member role to each member of your group, and plan two role-plays. The first role-play can demonstrate the way you think the family would most likely react. Or it can demonstrate, with humor, a disastrous family response....

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The UUA is no longer updating Tapestry of Faith programs.

Workshop 9: Families Function: Families Feel

Workshop 9: Families Function: Families Feel

Tapestry is Sunsetting

Workshop 9: Families Function: Families Feel

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