• Cardstock
• Newsprint, markers and tape
• Markers, crayons, and colored pencils
• Scissors, including left-handed scissors
• Optional: Stickers that have shared values themes

• Print enough Shared Values Reflection Cards (pdf) sheets for all participants on heavy cardstock, plus a few extra. Do not pre-cut them.
• On a piece of newsprint, and starting at the lower left-hand corner, draw a vertical arrow/vector pointing upward and label it “accountability.” Starting at the same point, draw a horizontal arrow/vector pointing rightward and label it “love.”
• Optional: draw a table with four quadrants filling the space bordered by the arrows.

Description of Activity

(About 2 hours for all 6 values.)

We often talk about how our Shared Values are centered in Love, but the language in Article II (pdf) actually states: We are accountable to one another for doing the work of living our shared values through the spiritual discipline of Love. This will be an opportunity to engage with the values using both love and accountability.

Introduce the activity stating how love and accountability can be in tension with one another. Share that you are all going to explore how our accountability to one another relates to centering our values in love.

Start with the value “Justice.” Write the word “Justice” at the top of the newsprint, over your vectors. Ask the following questions, and scribe the answers in the applicable “quadrant.”

• What does Justice look like when we are not centering it in Love, and there is little or no accountability in our communities? (Lower LH quadrant)
• What does Justice look like when we are not centering it in Love, and there is high accountability in our communities? (Upper LH quadrant)
• What does Justice look like when we are centering it in Love, and there is little or no accountability in our communities? (Lower RH quadrant)
• What does Justice look like when we are centering it in Love, and there is high accountability in our communities? (Upper RH quadrant)

Now let’s take about 10 minutes for you to fill in the words that resonate to you on your Justice card, and if you are moved, you can draw or write a poem at the top of the card.

Let’s move on to the next value…

Note: In groups larger than 8, do one value–Justice–together using the newsprint, then break into smaller groups to do the rest.

Offer the scissors so that participants can cut apart the cards when they are done.

For the last 10-15 minutes of the workshop, have each participant share about one card that was particularly insightful for them.

If some participants are not confident about their artistic skills or would rather contribute in some other way, provide stickers that can be used to decorate the cards.