Workshop 17: Voices from the Local Community

In This Section

• Introduction

  The second kind of (multicultural) community consists of a time and place where these different monocultural communities can encounter each...
• Workshop-at-a-Glance

  Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Filling the Void of Missing Voices 75 Activity 2: Prepare for Workshop 18...
• Spiritual Preparation

  Prepare yourself for the presence of guests in your workshop by reflecting on the relationship you have built with each guest. Prepare...
• Welcoming and Entering

  Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music...
• Opening

  Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Leader Resource 1,...
• Activity 1: Filling the Void of Missing Voices

  Materials for Activity Participant journals Lined paper and pens/pencils Handout 1, The State of Racial/Ethnic Relations at _____ [name of...
• Activity 2: Prepare for Workshop 18 Field Trip

  Materials for Activity Workshop 18, Handout 1, Field Trip and Community Walk Handout Preparation for Activity Copy Workshop 18, Handout 1,...
• Closing

  Materials for Activity Snacks and beverages Taking It Home Preparation for Activity Purchase refreshments or ask participants to bring them...
• Leader Reflection and Planning

  Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of...
• Alternate Activity 1: Photographs from Missing Voices

  Materials for Activity Single-use, disposable cameras Handout 1, The State of Racial/Ethnic Relations at _____ [name of your congregation]...
• Taking It Home

  The second kind of (multicultural) community consists of a time and place where these different monocultural communities can encounter each...
• Handout 1: The State of Racial-Ethnic Relations at _____ [name of your congregation]

  Category Statement Policies and Practices Congregants in the dominant racial group are comfortable talking about issues of race with...
• Leader Resource 1: Kindness

  By Naomi Shihab Nye

  "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books. Portland, OR, 1995). Before you know what...
• Find Out More

  The UUA Multicultural Growth & Witness staff group offers resources, curricula, trainings, and tools to help Unitarian Universalist...