A worship arts immersion

SIX WORDS ONE IMAGE

I KNOW THIS ROSE WILL OPEN

And the people respond:

I know this rose will open

LET US PRAY

I know this rose will openI know my fear

will burn awayI know my soul will

unfurl it’s wingsI know this rose will open

~Mary Grigolia

LET US SING

WE CENTER IN COMMUNITY

WELCOME TO STARR KING LOUISVILLE!

For this workshop we seek to off er a taste of the Starr King pedagogy through a worship arts immersion class:to introduce participants to the

emergent educational design of the school (contextualizing)

to explore history and ethics of personal/communal spiritual practice (study)

to experiment with visual and visceral worship planning tools (action)

to consider ways of sustaining learning in congregation, at work and in family as a leadership imperative (reflection)

to embody the temporal and transformational possibilities of a learning community of practice (integration)

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OURINTENTION

Advances Starr King's mission to educate people for Unitarian Universalist ministry and progressive religious leadership for society

Opens Starr King School to students living and working in settings across the continent as well as in Berkeley

Employs new modes of relational and constructive learning and new educational technologies

Embodies the School's Unitarian Universalist commitments to education that counters oppressions, creates just and sustainable communities, and cultivates multi-religious life and learning.

EMERGENT EDUCATIONAL DESIGN

Check out our Summer 2013 Symposium August

VIEWS FROMTHE SCHOOL

Loving Our Earth2013 Symposium

With Dr. Joanna Macy

August 28-29Berkeley/Oakland, California

www.SKSMSymposium.Org

AlumniStudentsFriendsFaculty

A community of leaders and learners: relational & adaptive

REGISTERNOW!

Using new educational technologies, students and teachers live and work in settings all around the globe

A vibrant in-person learning community in Berkeley provides a home base

Global immersions deepen multi-religious and cross-cultural learning

Students engage in mult iple ways of learning in preparation for ministr ies in congregations…

and beyond…

MODES OF LEARNING

A WORSHIP ARTS IMMERSION

Multivocal Worship

Think Like A Film Maker

Expand Your Comfort Zones

Understandinggenerations in congregational life

“Bridging” Worship Styles

Cultural Competence

PREPARING LEADERS

UNDERSTANDING GENERATIONS

What is holy? Smokes? Bagel? Toledo?

“BRIDGING” WORSHIP STYLES

Laughter. The most elegant of homilies.

CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Worshipping Together with Questioning Minds, by Sophia Lyon Fahs. Copyright (C) 1965 by Sophia Lyon Fahs.

“In some of our church schools it has become almost a habit for the leader of the services of worship to have some natural object, or objects, on an altar or table in the chancel or on the platform where it may become the center of attention and awaken curiosity. Perhaps the object is a branch of autumn leaves, a rose or lily, a flowering plant, an unusual stone, or a bowl of apples or oranges...”

Assignment: Off er personal theologica l refl ect ion of words on the page vs the image vs. a tangib le i tem vs. a representat ive symbol in services of worsh ip in your community context .

HISTORY AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

SAVING PARADISE (p. 409)

"Knowing that paradise is here and now is a gift that comes to those who practice the ethics of paradise. This way of living is not Utopian. It does not spring simply from the imagination of a better world but from a profound embrace of this world. It does not begin with knowledge or hope. It begins with love.... Paradise can be experienced as spiritual illumination of the heart, mind, and senses felt in moments of religious ecstasy, and it can be known in ordinary life lived with reverence and responsibility.... Paradise is not a place free from suff ering or confl ict, but it is a place in which Spirit is present and love is possible...."

What are your sources of creative outlet?

When, where and how are your senses “in Paradise?”

RESOURCES FOR STUDY AND REFLECTION

Could it be 5 words?Or 8 words? (yes)

ConcisePoeticRefinedMultilingualLiteracyConnective

HemmingwayThe Race Card

WHY SIX WORDS?

You say…I mean…We make

meaning…

Tools for multigenerational growth and learning

WHY ONE IMAGE?

What are the practices in your local congregation around the use of images of children and youth in church publications?

See more resource links at sixwordsoneimage.com

Where do the arts appear in your community?

How are copyright laws, fair use and worship inspiration in alignment with community values?

ON ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Everyday? But but but…

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Certainly there is a right for you that needs no choice on your part. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which fl ows into your life. Then, without eff ort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes?

And and and…

Worship AssociatesSmall Group MinistryMultigenerational

Mission WorkBorder Crossing

SOME WORDS ABOUT PRACTICE

Words of Wisdom from Waldo…

“Pay so much honor to the visits of Truth to your mind as to record those thoughts that have shown therein. It is not for what is recorded, though that may be the agreeable entertainment of later years, but for the habit of rendering account to yourself of yourself in some more rigorous manner and at some more certain intervals than mere conversation or casual reverie of solitude require.”

WRITING AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

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THE LEARNING BEGINS

Download

Look Up

Old fashioned paper

Engage on Social Media

Help one another

THE SCAVENGER HUNT

The Transcendentalists read from one another’s journals. This was a form of conversation and a valued spiritual practice. A chance to “Create a Temple of Thought” such as Emerson describes:

“Conversation acquaints us with great secrets of human nature. When it is earnest, the company are apprised of their unity; they are apprised that the thought rises to an equal height in all the persons, that all have a spiritual property in what was said as well as the sayer. They all wax wiser than they were. It is a Temple, this unity of their thought in which every one is conscious of a greater self possession, and thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.”

ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION

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LET THE CONVERSATION CONTINUE