The Wi$dom Path

"Mariana Rodrigues," story for use with Worshop 6 of The Wi$dom Path adult curriculum.

For Workshop 3, Are We Doing the Right Things? Alternate Activity 1, Leadership and Management Alternate Scenario

For Workshop 3, Are We Doing the Right Things, Activity 4, Leadership and Management

For Workshop 4, Caring for Ourselves and Others, Activity 2, Bodies of Water Guided Meditation

(45 minutes) Materials Handout 3, Alternate Systems Thinking Scenarios Newsprint, markers, and wall-safe tape Preparation Copy Handout 3 for all participants. Read Activity 2, Applying Systems Thinking, to become familiar with how to diagram a congregational issue or challenge from a systems...

...Meaningful change is hard, especially as it relates to identity and power. It raises essential questions about whose voices are heard, who is asked to take risks, how we negotiate our relationships, and what our priorities are as a community. False divisions like “political correctness”...

Distribute copies of Taking It Home or tell the group when you will email it. Invite participants to reflect on their own leadership style by asking, “Are there things that you plan to approach differently as a result of this workshop?”

Consider some of your congregation’s social justice projects and programs, using a systems lens. How does your congregation engage with the community? What relationships, both within and outside the congregation, comprise your congregation’s social justice system?

Have the group brainstorm conflicts or dilemmas facing their congregation(s) and select two or three to examine closely. Invite participants to form groups of four to six to examine an issue (either the issue that most interests them or a single issue, whichever you chose).