November's Theme: Healing

This months we're exploring ideas about healing; how we heal relationships, ourselves, gratitude, with the truth. Like so many of life's big ideas, there's no one way. As we slip into the holiday season, look at the healing powers you have all around you!

Questions:

1. Have you ever had a fight with a friend? How did that make you feel?

2.What does it look/feel/sound like to mend a friendship?

Activity: Knot Tying

Supplies: Small rope, stick

Let's learn how to tie knots! Learning how to tie, and untie knots is a useful skill! Watch this neat video of a girl teaching us 5 different knots!

UU of The Week: Christopher Reeve

Questions:

1. When you are sad, does that make it harder for you to remember things you are grateful for?

2. Are there people in your life that especially help you remember the good things in life?

Activity: ABC's of Gratitude

Supplies Needed: journal, pen

As a family list things they are grateful for, beginning with “A” and working all the way through the alphabet to “Z.” Take turns, helping one another as the letters go on. The big idea behind this is to think of all of the big, and little things we have to be grateful for in our everyday lives!

UU of The Week:Annie Bizzell Jordan WIllis

Questions:

1. How might the world be different if we asked people how they might want to be helped?

2. Has anyone ever tried to help you without first asking what you really need? Was it helpful?

Activity: Lego Perspectives

Supplies: two groups of legos with exactly the same legos in each group.

This game is best played in pairs. The two people sit with their back touching, so they can't see the other persons legos. The first person builds something with the legos in their pile. Then, they have to communicate with their partner how to build the structure they made, without looking at it. The challenge comes by having to describe where the pieces go and how they fit, without looking at each other. This is a great exercise when you're talking about how people see AND communicate in the world!

UU of The Week: Clara Barton

Questions:

1. Why do you think there are so many myths around Thanksgiving?

2. How would you retell the Thanksgiving story for someone else?

Activity:

As a family, research who were the indigenous people in the area where you currently live: https://native-land.ca/

UU of The Week: Margot Adler

Questions:

1. Good food is just one way people comfort themselves. What else comforts you?

2. How does church comfort you?

Activities: Comfort Journal

Supplies Needed: Journal, writing instrument

As a family, brainstorm ways that people comfort themselves and each other. Individually in your journals, write a list of ideas that best suits each person. When times of stress arise, as a family reference this list for ways to comfort each other.

UU of The Week: T. Berry Brazelton