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  • The Tepid Bay is calm, with sailboats floating easily on the water. This laid-back area represents a place of moderate comfort, suggesting a desire for more engagement or passion.
    Parameters: Any number, in person or online.
    Activity | June 25, 2026 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Community, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • A lighthouse on an island with a small building next to it.
    Themes: Self advocacy, inclusion, awareness.Works well for: Groups that have an established covenant or behavioral norms.This practice normalizes mistakes and ways to repair. “Ouch” lets someone name hurt or impact from something said or done. It gently signals harm without escalating tension or...
    June 25, 2026 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Community, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • A sea turtle dives towards the bottom surrounded by blue green water.
    This three-part series will look at child and youth safety standards and protocols and dig into real-life scenarios.
    By Lifespan Faith Engagement, Congregational Life | June 11, 2026 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Child Safety, Children's Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Middle School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Youth Safety
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  • A graphic of a circle of human icons around a chalice, surrounded by yellow & black caution tape.
    What are the UUA's Youth Safety Guidelines, who are they for, and how are they useful for congregations?
    June 2, 2026 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Child Safety, Youth Ministry, Youth Safety
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  • Drawing of life preserver - red ring with white lines and black string on blue background.
    In the very best of times, “safety” is a loaded term for many of us. These times are not the very best. And, we still need to show up, co-exist, grow, learn, and be. How are we supposed to do that? 
    By Mylo Way | March 10, 2026 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Youth Safety
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  • A cartoon map of Community Building through Deeper Joy, showing the location of a canyon, lighthouse, forest, river, beach, springs, bay, harbor and canyons.
    Deeper Joy is a Map of Community Building activities that help groups of any age and ability mingle, bond, stretch, heal and repair. These are games with purpose. These are spirit lessons.
    Utility | January 27, 2026 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Community, Families & Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Older Adult Faith Development, Playfulness, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35), Youth Group Dynamics, Youth Ministry, Youth-Adult Partnership
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person or online. You'll need materials for making care packages and artwork, envelope and stamp money. Choose someone outside the gathering who could use extra love and send them a care package.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. Participants contribute to shared purpose, express gratitude, and honor community bonds by contributing a meaningful medium, such as sand, to a shared container at the beginning of the event then taking some from the shared container at the end of the event.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. You'll need warm water and individual containers; option to include soap and lotion. Participants practice self-care, expressing tenderness, and experiencing humility by washing their own or another's feet.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Participants build confidence by receiving affirmation and widening self-understanding as others share what they notice about them or offering a blessing for them.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: 6+, in person or online. Receive appreciation, share kindness, and strengthen connections as participants rotate around concentric circles sharing meaningful compliments with one another.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: 4+, in person or online. If group is large, divide into smaller groups. Participants celebrate each other after coming up with a cheer together.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Paper and writing utensils needed for the variation. Explore identity and begin sharing personal stories as participants say their name and a way to remember their name or something special about it.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: 3+, in person or online. Paper, writing utensils or skribbl.io needed. There are speaking, art and writing versions of this game. Participants build a story together one sentence or picture at a time.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Appreciate beauty and collaborate on meaning making as participants find objects to add to a tableau and create a story about it.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: 4+, in person. Practice listening, choose when to lead or follow, and coordinate as a group as participants add layers of sound to a group rhythm.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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    Youth Ministry Advising offers a full complement of tools and strategies for youth advisors and religious educators, ministers, and other adults who are committed to a dynamic vision of youth ministry.
    Item | By Lifespan Faith Engagement | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Young Adults, Youth Ministry, Youth/Teens
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  • A stream cuts through a verdant hillside. Text pasted over the image reads, "The Stream: UU Youth Leadership and, below that, "An Ecosystem for Liberatory Youth Community."
    ...I hope to offer dreams for a future of Youth Leadership that is slowly emerging. The upheaval of many systems in recent years brings possibility. We can both honor and value the contributions of the past while meeting our youth in this moment–their moment– to create something new.
    Leader Resource | By Ember Oak Kelley | April 18, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Youth Ministry
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  • A family with teenage children smiles together.
    “Lifespan Faith Engagement” means accompanying those who are coming of age in a dying and transforming world to be meaning-makers and agents of change. We are here to support religious professionals and lay leaders of all ages to do just that.
    Utility | April 10, 2025
    Tagged as: Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35), Youth Ministry
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  • A whiteboard with a bunch of pastel post-it with ideas around a quarter-sheet with "What should UU Institutions be doing to support BIPOC youth" written in purple Sharpie.
    A report on the 2024 Thrive with DRUUMM YaYA Convening to hear from the community about BIPOC UU youth and young adult ministry, including planning process and dreams for the future.
    Utility | By Nico Van Ostrand | March 17, 2025 | For Middle School, High School, Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: BIPOC Experiences, Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Identity Formation, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Youth Ministry
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