Closing (5 minutes)
Materials for Activity
- Altar or centering table
- Cloth for covering altar or centering table
- Chalice and candle
- Chalice extinguisher
- 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, and print out and photocopy it.
- Review and print out the blessing provided as closing words for this workshop.
Description of Activity
Gather the group around the altar or centering table. Affirm the good work that participants have done in this workshop.Hand out the Taking It Home handout you have prepared. Explain the activities, as needed.
Invite participants to call out a word or phrase about something they remembered, heard, or felt during the workshop. Allow enough time for all who wish to speak to have the opportunity.
Invite everyone to join hands. Offer this blessing:
Spirit of Life, we give thanks for the web of life and
our place in it.
We give thanks for the beauty of the earth, the rhythms and cycles of life.
We give thanks for this time together.
Be with us in our parting and in our return.
Extinguish the chalice.
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.Last updated on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
