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A PLACE of WHOLENESS a Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth A PLACE OF WHOLENESS A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth BY BETH DANA AND JESSE JAEGER © Copyright 2010 Unitarian Universalist Association. This program and additional resources are available on the UUA.org web site at www.uua.org/tapestryoffaith. 1 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Beth Dana is a seminarian at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, working toward a Master of Divinity. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist from Albany, New York, where she was active in her congregation’s religious education program and youth group. She served in various district and continental leadership roles as a youth, including as a trainer and trainer-of-trainers for the UUA’s programs in Youth Leadership Development, Youth Advising, and Groundwork (Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression). Beth has been a Unitarian Universalist religious education director, participant, teacher, curriculum designer, and advocate. Jesse Jaeger currently a stay-at-home father to two great young Unitarian Universalists and the part-time Director of Membership and Leadership Development for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn. He also leads Our Whole Lives Grades 7 to 9 and 10 to 12 facilitator trainings and does independent consulting to congregations and small non-profits around visioning, leadership development and conflict transformation. Previously he spent six years as the Director of Youth Ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Association traveling around the association supporting the development youth ministry programs. Jesse has a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Montana and a Masters of Organizational Leadership, as well as Servant Leadership Certificate, from Gonzaga University. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Copyright (C) information The authors would like to thank: Our editors, Jessica York and Susan Lawrence, for their ideas, feedback, and editing lens. Adrianne Ross for making creative use of technology possible in this program. Judith Frediani for her feedback on this program as it developed and for carrying the vision of Tapestry of Faith. Reverends Liz Strong and Susan Ritchie for consulting with us and suggesting resources about the history of Unitarianism and Universalism — particularly as it relates to freedom, reason, tolerance, faith, hope, and love. Greta Anderson for writing stories. Reverend Josh Pawelek for working with us to develop a story about roots and wings, based on a sermon of his. Christine Michell for sharing her work on the Pride Rainbow Project. Reverends Hope Johnson, Barbro Hansson, Dick Leonard, and Bill Sinkford for sharing their stories about Unitarian Universalism and racial justice. Jyaphia Christos-Rodgers and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee for talking with us about Unitarian Universalist involvement in the recovery and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Mary Ellen Giess, a Unitarian Universalist working for the Interfaith Youth Core, for sharing her story of growing up Unitarian Universalist. Erin Moore and Natalie Cartwright Jaeger for their love and support while we wrote the program. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS WORKSHOP 1: BEGINNING TOGETHER ........................................................................................ 12 WORKSHOP 2: A JOURNEY OF FAITH ............................................................................................ 35 WORKSHOP 3: ROOTS AND WINGS ............................................................................................... 54 WORKSHOP 4: A THEOLOGY OF LOVE .......................................................................................... 73 WORKSHOP 5: HOPE ..................................................................................................................... 105 WORKSHOP 6: NURTURING THE SPIRIT ..................................................................................... 120 WORKSHOP 7: REASON ................................................................................................................ 133 WORKSHOP 8: FREEDOM ............................................................................................................. 149 WORKSHOP 9: TOLERANCE ......................................................................................................... 167 WORKSHOP 10: OUR COVENANTAL FAITH ................................................................................. 185 WORKSHOP 11: SPEAKING FAITH ................................................................................................ 203 WORKSHOP 12: WHOLENESS ...................................................................................................... 215 Note: If you add or delete text in this program, you may change the accuracy of the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents is an auto-generated list; if you change content and want an accurate representation of the page numbers listed in the TOC, click the table and click “Update field.” Then, click “Update page numbers only.” Click OK. 3 exploring," participants will "arrive where [they] started THE PROGRAM and know the place for the first time," understanding We shall not cease from exploration both their Unitarian Universalist community and the And the end of all our exploring story of their faith journey. They will see themselves as Will be to arrive where we started an integral part of our living tradition. And know the place for the first time. — GOALS T.S. Eliot This program will: Unitarian Universalists of all ages are inheritors of a Affirm that participants have faith, help them theological history, as well as co-creators of the future identify that faith, and equip them to effectively of our living tradition. A Place of Wholeness is designed articulate and live their faith to help youth develop a holistic understanding of their Tell the story of Unitarian Universalism as one Unitarian Universalist faith and community, articulate of independence, dependence, and what this means to them, and feel confident in living interdependence their faith with integrity. Encourage participants to see themselves as For many youth, especially those raised in Unitarian belonging to a Unitarian Universalist community Universalist communities, the principles, values, and and being integral to the covenantal theologies of Unitarian Universalism are in their bones. community's wholeness A Place of Wholeness is an opportunity to examine Help participants recognize that they are their faith journeys to better understand themselves in inheritors of a Unitarian Universalist theological the context of Unitarian Universalism. Every workshop history as well as co-creators in the future of begins with the same opening reading, the last lines of our living tradition which are: "We are part of this living tradition. Through Creatively employ technology to facilitate it we become whole, and through us it becomes whole." learning and community building. It is this sense of interdependence that the program reinforces. LEADERS There are several overarching themes that structure To be most effective, leaders need to make this program. Wholeness—the primary theme of the connections within their congregation and have a solid program—is defined as the way in which our Unitarian knowledge of Unitarian Universalism. We recommend Universalist "outsides" match our Unitarian Universalist that leaders not be new to the congregation or at least "insides" by understanding, professing, and living our not new to Unitarian Universalism. At least one leader faith. Wholeness is also important in the sense that who grew up Unitarian Universalist would be useful. each person is integral to the wholeness of the The ideal team of leaders would include at least two Unitarian Universalist community. Related to the path to adults with diversity in gender, sexual orientation, race wholeness is the faith journey, which is an ongoing and ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. Because exploration much like T.S. Eliot describes in the above theology and spirituality are core components of this quote. Participants explore their spiritual journeys thus program, pay special attention to theological and far and by applying the metaphor of migration—of birds, spiritual diversity within the leadership team. and of people—to their lives. Every workshop has a musical component, so it would Each workshop explores a different theme of our faith be helpful to have someone with musical, by introducing its roots in Unitarian Universalism, then accompaniment, and/or song-leading skills. Many of the helping participants give it "wings" by making it their workshops emphasize justice issues, so someone with own. James Luther Adams' Five Smooth Stones of interest in this area would be helpful as well. Finally, Religious Liberalism ground these themes in each many workshops call on the facilitators to empower the workshop. youth to take the lead in facilitating activities. Leaders The work of Earl Morse Wilbur and other historians are should have some experience supporting youth reflected in six core values of Unitarianism and leadership. Universalism explored in this program. These core Of course, very few individuals possess all of these values include faith, love, hope, reason, freedom, and skills, so try to assemble the best team possible. The tolerance. workshops suggest ways to include other adults from A Place of Wholeness begins with our Unitarian the congregation in various ways. Their participation Universalist communities and the experiences and gives youth the opportunity to broaden their concept
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