Chapter 7: Resources

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Resource 1 Sample Registration Form for Your High Hill Workshop
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[Insert the name, address, email address, and phone number of the sponsoring organization or individual, e.g., your congregation’s letterhead.] Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. — PEANUTS, a comic strip YES! I want to come! Please register me for the From the High Hill program. Enclosed you…
Resource 2: Sample Participant Letter for Your Packet
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Date Name Address City, state, zip Dear [use first name], Congratulations! And welcome to our High Hill group!…
Resource 3 Sample Order of Service for Celebration of Elders
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Date Name Address City, State, Zip Dear [participant’s first name], Welcome to our From the High Hill group workshop, and congratulations! You will participate in an exciting and introspective process that will inform and support you as you rediscover your life and write your Odyssey. You will be…
Resource 4 Sample Order of Service for Celebration of Elders
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Prelude Have musicians play a medley from the songs that will be sung. Welcome and Announcements Lighting the Chalice Have the group say in unison Reading 683 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Be Ours a Religion” by Theodore Parker….
Resource 5 "The Layers" by Stanley Kunitz
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“The Layers”. Copyright (C) 1978 by Stanley Kunitz, from THE COLLECTED POEMS by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Stanley Kunitz was a 20th/21st- century American poet, named American Poet Laureate in 2000. I have walked through many lives, Some of them my own,…
Resource 6 Things to Not Leave Undone
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Become closer to my sister. Learn Spanish. Plan one last trip to Kentucky. Write one great poem. Talk to my Uncle Vern. Hold an historical gathering with my family, and travel to where each of us was born. Expand my photography. I want a great body. Get back to painting. Research my father’s…
Resource 7 Presenting a HIgh Hill Workshop in a Non-Retreat Setting
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Here are some things to consider if your group—whether for convenience or to minimize expenses—chooses to meet locally, and stay in their own homes: Do we want to meet in a home, in people’s living rooms? Do we have a living space among us that is large enough to accommodate us all, with…
Resource 8 Experiencing the Program Solo or in a Pair
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Working alone or with one other person can be an interesting and effective way to engage with the High Hill program. Collaborating with another person, particularly if you live in an area that does not have a Unitarian Universalist congregation, can be a wider and more affirming experience than…
Resource 9 Evaluations
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Evaluations help us know how to do it better next time—what worked and what didn’t work well, and why. And, they provide feedback about our success as a facilitator. Here are three methods for evaluating your program: Create a numerical assessment. Ask participants to rank, by specified numbers,…

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