Closing (5 minutes)
Materials for Activity
- Altar or centering table
- Cloth for covering altar or centering table
- Chalice and candle
- Chalice extinguisher
- Copies of Handout 1: Sing in My Heart for all participants
- Copies of Taking It Home handout for all participants
Preparation for Activity
- Review the Taking It Home section for this workshop and decide which extension activities you will encourage participants to do on their own.
- Download the Taking It Home section to your computer, customize it for your group, print it out, and photocopy it.
Description of Activity
Gather participants around the altar or centering table.Affirm the good work that participants have done in this workshop. Invite participants to "take the workshop home" and explain the activities, as needed.
Invite participants to rise in body or spirit. Ask participants to link arms as willing and able, holding Handout 1: Sing in My Heart in readiness. Lead the group in reading the closing words together.
Extinguish the chalice. Thank and dismiss participants.
Including All Participants
Be sure to be inclusive of people with a variety of living situations—living alone, with a significant other, in a family, with housemates, etc.—in the way you explain the Taking It Home activities.If you have participants who are unable to stand, you may wish to forgo the linking of arms, which can be difficult for people at different heights. You can substitute hand-holding for arm-linking.
Last updated on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
