Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Drawing paper Pens, pencils, crayons, and/or markers Tables or hard surfaces for drawing Preparation for Activity Set up tables, or find books or other hard surfaces for drawing. Arrange chairs so that couples can sit together and draw....

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Invite participants to take turns briefly sharing insights they have had since the previous workshop on generosity. Ask whether couples have noticed anything new about the way they relate to each other. If desired, you can move this activity along...

Gottman, John M., and Nan Silver. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert. Three Rivers Press, 1999. Kellerman, Lois, and Nelly Bly. Marriage from the Heart: Eight Commitments of a Spiritually Fulfilling Life Together....

With your co-leader, take some time after the workshop to evaluate the session and plan for future sessions. Consider these questions: What parts of the workshop seemed to engage the most people? Why? When did we seem particularly effective as co-leaders? Why?...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of customized Taking It Home handout (see Preparation) Preparation for Activity Review the Taking It Home section of this workshop and decide which "Affection Connection" options you will encourage participants to do. Download the Taking It...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Altar or centering table Cloth for covering altar or centering table Chalice and candle Matches or lighter Singing the Living Tradition hymnbook (at least one copy) Leader Resource 1: Order of Service - Connection Preparation for Activity Prepare t...

Materials for Activity Name tags Markers Sign-in sheet Pen or pencil An agenda of this workshop's activities on newsprint or a digital slide (see Preparation) Optional: Computer, digital projector, and screen Optional: Copies of workshop series schedule Preparation for Activity Using the...

Consider the guiding Principle for this workshop, "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part," and the workshop's focus on connection. Take some time to reflect on ways you connect with others in physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual ways....

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering Opening 10 Activity 1: Check-in 10 Activity 2: The Art of Connection 20 Activity 3: Connecting from the Heart 35 Activity 4: Strengthening Your Social Web 20 Activity 5: Finding Your Thread in the Interdependent Web 15 Closing 10 Alternate Activity 1: Faith...

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect . . . — E.M. Forster, early-twentieth-century British novelist A healthy, satisfying relationship...

Follow this Order of Service as you lead the opening of Workshop 5, Generosity. Welcome Chalice Lighting Principle Guided Meditation Reading Welcome Welcome participants. Explain that this workshop is devoted to the concept of generosity....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Blank greeting cards with plain fronts (see Preparation) Envelopes for cards Pens Art supplies for decorating the cards, such as construction paper, scissors, markers, glue, small letter stencils, glitter, and pictures cut from magazines Tables (se...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Two-inch squares of blank paper (enough for every participant to have one, plus some extras) Pens or pencils A large fireproof bowl, chafing dish, or fireplace Matches or lighter Pitcher of water and/or fire extinguisher Optional: Music and a music...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Writing paper (at least one sheet per participant) Pens or pencils Tables or hard surfaces for writing Preparation for Activity Set up tables, or find books or other hard surfaces for writing. Description of Activity Using these or similar words,...

Activity time: 45 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint Easel Markers Low-stick masking tape Newsprint sheet with prepared questions (see Preparation) Writing paper (at least one sheet per person) Pens or pencils Tables or hard surfaces for writing Optional: Music and music player (see...

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Invite participants to take turns briefly sharing insights they have had since the previous workshop on dignity. Ask whether couples have noticed anything new about the way they relate to each other. If desired, you can move this activity along...

Krech, Greg. Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2002.

With your co-leader, take some time after the workshop to evaluate the session and plan for future sessions. Consider these questions: What parts of the workshop seemed to engage the most people? Why? When did we seem particularly effective as co-leaders? Why?...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of customized Taking It Home handout (see Preparation) Preparation for Activity Review the Taking It Home section of this workshop and decide which "Affection Connection" options you will encourage participants to do. Download the Taking It...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Altar or centering table Cloth for covering altar or centering table Chalice and candle Matches or lighter Singing the Living Tradition hymnbook (at least one copy) Leader Resource 1: Order of Service - Generosity Preparation for Activity Prepare t...