Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post two sheets of newsprint, one labeled "Fairness: Up Side," the other labeled "Fairness: Down Side." Post a third sheet, headed "Does fairness mean... " and write: "Treat everyone the same?"...

Good Character is a website with examples of ethical and moral dilemmas. One that concerns loyalty is David's story. Confucianism is heavily steeped in directives on living a virtuous life. Loyalty is one of the most important virtues to Confucius. Read more about this religion or philosophy at...

Reflect on the program with your co-leader. Thank one another for your presence and support. Prepare your feedback for the congregation's religious educator, so they may use it next time your congregation offers this program.

The story in this workshop deals with loyalty to congregation, faith, and oneself. What does this mean to you? Do you feel loyalty to your congregation? To Unitarian Universalism? If so, how does this manifest? What does this sense of loyalty stem from: Love? A need to serve? Appreciation? History?

Reflect on the workshop with your co-leader. After today, only the closing workshop remains. How do you feel about the way the program has progressed? Read the next workshop for any advance preparation needed and decide who will be responsible for what....

Description of Activity Youth create a simple forgiveness ritual and share it with others. If you have a group that is creative or has quite a bit of worship experience, they might enjoy the challenge of creating a ritual around forgiveness. The ritual could involve a meditation. Use Activity 3,...

Novelist Faith Baldwin wrote, "I think one should forgive and remember......

A wisdom tale from Japan. On the top of the hill lived the village curmudgeon. No one knew why the farmer was so ornery, yet he never seemed to have a kind word to say. No one knew why he was so inhospitable, yet he would not even open his door to visitors....

Reflect on the workshop with your co-leader. Which activities did the group enjoy the most? If guilty feelings arose, were they dealt with in a healthy way? There are only two workshops left. What evidence do you see that workshops are having a positive effect on the group? How are the anklets...

Materials for Activity For gathering interviews: Notepads and pens/pencils, cameras, and/or audio/video recording equipment For presenting interviews: Bulletin board display materials such as writing/drawing paper, construction paper, color markers, and tape/push pins, and/or audio/video playback...

Few incidents from our past return to haunt us like the times we wish we had acted more courageously. Do you have a memory of a time that you let someone else down, and perhaps disappointed yourself even more? We all make mistakes. Carrying around guilt from those mistakes is not useful....

Activity Minutes Opening 10 Activity 1: What Is Courage? 10 Activity 2: Story — The Farmer on the Hill 15 Activity 3: Whistle a Happy Tune 15 Activity 4: Dilemma 15 Activity 5: Practice 20 Faith in Action: UU Profiles in Courage Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: Real Life Challenges Alternate...

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. — Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird This...

Main Street High School has a dilemma. A student wears a tee shirt that some people think is inappropriate, but some do not. The dilemma will be solved by a tug-of-war. [Bring out the rope.] A youth wears a tee shirt to school that says, "Gay? Fine by me." [Pick a volunteer to be the tee shirt...

Read more about the life of Lotta Hitschmanova at the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, The Canadians: Adventures of our People by Margaret Gooding (Toronto: Canadian Unitarian Council, 1985); or No… American Unitarians. Visible Thinking is a Harvard University program intended...

Reflect on the workshop with your co-leader. Did the workshop include enough physical activity for this group? Are youth sharing their personal ethical and moral dilemmas? Make sure you always leave room to discuss these during the workshop. Is the group starting to bond?...

Can you remember your first experience with unfairness or injustice? Perhaps it was something personal and small, such as a sibling receiving a treat you were denied. Maybe it was a larger injustice, such as noticing that some people in your community were rich while others were poor. Can you...

Activity Minutes Opening 40 Activity 1: Up Side, Down Side 10 Activity 2: Story — Lotta Hitschmanova, Mother of a Thousand 10 Activity 3: Dilemma 10 Activity 4: Practice 15 Faith in Action: Designing a Fairness Game 40 Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: Real Life Challenges Alternate Activity 2: Tug...

The future, which we hold in trust for our own children, will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. — Marian Wright Edelman This workshop focuses on fairness. Because some lists of virtues include justice and not fairness, the workshop touches on justice, also. Here is the...

Spirit of Life and Love, Bless me with a generous heart A generous heart that knows how to give... When I feel as though I do not have enough to share, When I feel unappreciated, When I believe my gifts will fall short of what is needed, expected or desired, When my enemy is in need of mercy,...