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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint and markers Description of Activity Ask the group: "So, what makes a family?" Ask a volunteer to help list attributes on newsprint. Remind participants that you will be exploring this question together in the weeks ahead....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families -
Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Masking tape Markers Poster board Description of Activity Tell participants, "This activity will give you a chance to think about what you know about families and then work together and act out being in a family." Randomly divide participants into...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Invite participants to do a continuum activity. Explain that you will read a number of statements. After each statement, participants will place themselves on a continuum that is as wide as the room and extends from strongly agree to strongly...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Take time to discuss potential youth participant co-leadership. This topic may be more interesting for high school youth than for junior high youth. Discuss with participants the options you have decided are appropriate for the group....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint and markers Description of Activity Invite participants to create a group covenant to guide them in their work. Use the following discussion prompts as appropriate: What is a covenant? Has anyone in the group ever created a covenant?...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Provide an overview of the program. You might say: "The program that we are starting explores families, photography, and narratives or stories....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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During the upcoming weeks, e-mail or call participants and remind them to bring forms about camera availability. Save the instant photographs of participants or print the digital photographs taken during this session. Save notes on family, as you may use them again in future sessions. Post the...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Letter to Youth and Their Families Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, Letter to Youth and Their Families, for all participants Description of Activity Gather the group in a circle. Pragmatics: Who has cameras for use in this...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 60 minutes Preparation for Activity Be prepared to present possible options to the group. One good place to start is with your Justice Committee or Volunteer Match online....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Gathering Gather participants and invite them to sit in a circle. Welcome participants; go around and say names....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Materials for Activity Instant processing camera with film (or digital camera, if an instant camera is unavailable) Small squares of paper and markers (necessary only if you use a digital camera) Glue or glue sticks Large colored poster board Snack, napkins, and cups Name tags Fine line markers,...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Families
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Today you meet for the first session of this program. This is the beginning of a new project for you and the participants. You may know some of them well or this may be your first encounter. Consider how you want to be with them. How will you meet their emotional, physical, and intellectual needs?October 27, 2011 | From Families
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Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Project Introduction 10 Activity 2: Creating a Group Covenant 15 Activity 3: Plan for Youth Leadership 10 Activity 4: Family Continuum 10 Faith in Action: Helping Families 60 Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: Acting Like a Family 20...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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Our religious education nurtures both roots and wings; the roots of community and shared values, and the wings of the free mind and creative spirit. — Rev. Pat Hoertdoerfer, "Education for Religion as Relationship" In Today's Workshop......Taking It Home | October 27, 2011 | For Families | From A Place of Wholeness -
Each session is outlined with the following sections: Quote A quote introduces the subject of each session. You may decide to read a quote aloud to your group as an entry point to the session. However, the quotes are intended primarily for leaders, and are not always at the youth's level of...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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I was humbled, I was confounded, I saw clearly, that I had been all my life expecting good fruit from corrupt trees, grapes on thorns, and figs on thistles, I suspected myself, I had lost my standing, I was unsettled, perturbed and wretched. — John Murray (founder of American Universalism) on...Taking It Home | October 27, 2011 | For Families | From A Place of Wholeness
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There are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote: The inherent worth and dignity of every person; Justice, equity and compassion in human relations; Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations; A free and responsible...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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Families presents two special challenges: (1) sessions for which participants bring guests or sessions when participants who rarely attend are present, and (2) the amount of activity that happens outside of the session period. The former challenge will present itself more in later sessions when...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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The heart of this program is the photo-documentary project that places youth in a leadership role, listening, learning, and representing the lives of families in their congregation. Autonomy, creativity, and sensitivity are nurtured in the process. The end product is a visual, artistic...October 27, 2011 | From Families
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Read through the entire program before embarking on it. The photo-documentary project requires behind-the-scenes work of the program leaders, summarized below: Contact congregation leaders, both staff and lay. Enlist their help in recruiting families for the photo-documentation program....October 27, 2011 | From Families