Meet with your co-leader after the workshop to reflect on the following: How was the mix of discussion and action? In the midst of the busy-ness, did you successfully include spiritual elements? How well did the activities include everyone? Were the activities appropriate for the ages in the group?

Materials for Activity Information about the project chosen in the first workshop Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Share the project selected in Workshop 1, Faith in Action with the director of religious education, and obtain their feedback....

Materials for Activity Cloth for altar or centering table Leaf name tags from the previous workshop, plus a few blank extras, and markers Basket for name tags Preparation for Activity Place the cloth and chalice on the altar or centering table. Set the name tags in the basket with a marker nearby.

Find a place where you can be quiet with your thoughts. Close your eyes and breathe deeply for several minutes, perhaps repeating a word or phrase to separate yourself from the activities of the day....

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering Opening 5 Activity 1: Rise Up for Trees, Team Up for Trees 10 Activity 2: Guided Imagery — Among the Trees 5 Activity 3: Story — You're Saved by Something Green 10 Activity 4: Tree Jeopardy 15 Activity 5: Song — Standing Like a Tree 10 Faith in Action:...

To be poor and be without trees is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype This workshop...

Moving as quietly as you can, sit or lie down in a comfortable position and close your eyes. (pause) Take a deep breath. (pause) Notice how your body feels. Notice how your mind feels. Take a couple of long, slow breaths, in and out, in and out, and begin to let go and relax your body and mind.

Rise Up for Trees is adapted from the activity How Many Are Standing? (p. 35 in Everyone Wins! by Josette and Sambhava Luvmour, New Society Publishers, 2007). Team Up for Trees is adapted from a cooperative camp game. Choose which game to use each time the group gathers. After the first workshop,...

A Tree for All Seasons by Robin Bernard. Readers will climb through the pages of this vivid photographic book to explore the parts of a tree and understand their functions. In summer, the tree sunbathes and seethes with animal life. With autumn comes the flowing sap that makes maple syrup for...

Here are some suggestions for tree-related projects: Create a "Tree Guide" to the congregation's property. Identify the types of trees, and prepare informational plaques to be placed along a trail that congregants can use as a self-guided tour....

We gratefully acknowledge Dawn Publications for permission to use the text of the children's picture book The Tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed-Jones. This is the ancient forest. This is the three-hundred-year-old tree That grows in the ancient forest....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Chime or rain stick Preparation for Activity Designate a large, open space (preferably outdoors) with plenty of room for movement and where noise will not disturb others. Determine how participants with mobility issues can fully engage in this...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Rise Up for Trees / Team Up for Trees Preparation for Activity Choose one version (Rise Up for Trees or Team Up for Trees) to use for this workshop, and plan to use the other version in the next workshop. Read the resource and...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post a blank sheet of newsprint where all participants can see it, and write "Our Covenant" at the top. Description of Activity Participants create a group covenant. Point out that how we behave...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 2, Guided Imagery - Among the Trees Preparation for Activity Read the guided imagery so you will be comfortable leading the activity....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Taking It Home Handout 2, Selected Bibliography Basket for name tags on the centering table Preparation for Activity Download the Taking It Home section of this workshop to reflect the activities this group has done....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and LED/battery-operated candle Cloth for altar or centering space Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Select an area where the group can comfortably sit in a circle....

Meet with your co-leader after the workshop to reflect on the following: How was the mix of discussion and action? In the midst of the busy-ness, did you successfully include spiritual elements? How well did the activities include everyone? Were the activities appropriate for the ages in the group?

Activity time: 60 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, Tree-Related Project Ideas Colored dot stickers or other stickers Preparation for Activity Make copies of Handout 1 for the group to share. Research local tree groups, for example: Trees Atlanta, dedicated to...

Materials for Activity Leaf name tag template, and construction paper, scissors, hole punch, and yarn Bold markers Preparation for Activity Make leaf-shaped name tags for all expected participants and co-leaders, plus a few extra....