Workshop 4: The Nineteenth Century Women's Peace Movement

Part of Resistance and Transformation

In This Section

Introduction

From Resistance and Transformation

Oppression and war will be heard of no more Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless expense, For we'll...
Workshop-at-a-Glance

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: On the Frontlines 15 Activity 2: Personal Experience and Justicemaking 10 Activity 3:...
Spiritual Preparation

From Resistance and Transformation

Think about where you received your inspiration to lead this workshop. Who or what influenced you to facilitate this program?...
Welcoming and Entering

From Resistance and Transformation

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use), and bold markers Workshop 1, Handout 1, Sched...
Opening

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Timepiece (minut...
Activity 1: On the Frontlines

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "Clara Barton" Leader Resource 1, Clara Barton, Portrait Optional: Computer and digital projecto...
Activity 2: Personal Experience and Justicemaking

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Timepiece (minutes) Chime Description of Activity Invite participants to consider the ways our personal...
Activity 3: Generations of Action

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 2, Transformative Relationships Handout 1, Transformative Relationships - A Map Handout...
Activity 4: Web of Influence

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint or large sheets of drawing paper for all participants A variety of color markers Preparation ...
Closing

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Writing materials, including paper, pens,...
Leader Reflection and Planning

From Resistance and Transformation

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 the workshop?
Faith In Action: Generation to Generation

From Resistance and Transformation

Preparation for Activity Invite youth from your congregation to join the group for a conversation. The youth group and the Coming of Age group are two...
Alternate Activity 1: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 3, The Battle Hymn of the Republic Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, fo...
Alternate Activity 2: In Barton's Footsteps

From Resistance and Transformation

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 4, Embattled Faith Pens and pencils Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Revie...
Taking It Home

From Resistance and Transformation

Oppression and war will be heard of no more Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless expense, For we'll...
Clara Barton

From Resistance and Transformation

Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in Oxford, MA, into a Universalist family. She was living in Washington, D.C. when the U.S....
Handout 1: Transformative Relationships - A Map

From Resistance and Transformation
Handout 2: Women in the Peace Movement

From Resistance and Transformation

Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884) was a Universalist, a lecturer, activist, novelist and journalist who was passionate about rights for women and for...
Handout 3: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

From Resistance and Transformation

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatefu...
Handout 4: Embattled Faith

Neil Shister

From Resistance and Transformation

Excerpted from the article "Embattled Faith," by Neil Shister, which appeared in the July/August 2003 issue of UU World. Used with the author's permission.
Leader Resource 1: Clara Barton, Portrait

From Resistance and Transformation

From the Library of Congress.
Leader Resource 2: Transformative Relationships

From Resistance and Transformation

Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884) There came a time when Universalists refused to go with me as an abolitionist, an advocate for the rights of women,...
Find Out More

From Resistance and Transformation

Clara Barton Read "Unitarian and Universalist Roots of the American Red Cross" in the January/February 2002 issue of UU World....