Leadership Now

May 1, 2010

9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Open to youth 12-18 and their youth leaders/pastors/mentors. Breakfast, lunch and a t-shirt are included in the $20.00

Click HERE to register for the Spring Youth Event! - registration form updated April 7, 2010!

Sample of Spring 2010 Workshops:

• Bead One, Pray Two Are you someone who enjoys fiddling with a pencil or doodling in class? Do you lose yourself in your own thoughts while praying? If you can answer yes to either, then creating and using prayer beads can be a helpful spiritual practice for you.  Prayer beads are used in many religions, including Christianity, to connect with the divine. Join Kathy Church in stringing some beautiful beads while learning about the deeper meaning a little string and a bead can have.

• P.S.A.L.M.S.  Poetry, Songs, And Little Moments of Scripture What's the deal with Psalms, and why do we keep using them in worship?  Join seminarians, Tiffany Bidwell and Katie Cort  to explore and reclaim the worship within the book of Psalms, while also hearing poems from the past and present, dramatic readings, songs, and personal reflection.  We’ll also express ourselves through written verse, using poetry as a means to draw closer to God.
  
• Painting and Prayer There are different ways to pray and to meditate. Join third year seminarian Zoe Jeffery as we discover prayer through painting and creating sand mandalas!

• Writing as a Spiritual Practice Join Faculty member Valerie Bridgeman as we learn how to write creatively!

• TV Talk Explore the social, cultural, racial, and religious implications of the TV show The Wire with Dr. Derek Hicks, LTS professor of Religion and Culture.

• Yoga as a Meditative Practice  (Limited to 14 participants)  Led by and Yoga Instructor, Christine Kanicki this workshop will provide an hour of stress reduction and relaxation as you gently move through beginner’s Yoga. ( No talent is required- this is yoga for EVERY –BODY!)

• Drumming Do you find yourself tapping your pencil in class ?  When you hear music, do you find yourself bouncing to the rhythm?  If so, then drumming is a workshop for you.  Learn some basic rhythm patterns and techniques and explore drumming as both a meditative and worship practice in this workshop.

• Amazingly & Wonderfully Made Whether you have a positive body image, a negative body image, or it changes each day, body issues affect everyone: men and women, young and old.  In this workshop seminarian Kim Hughes will discuss where our ideas about what is attractive and unattractive come from and how our perception of beauty is distorted by those sources.  We will consider how society’s concept of beauty is so ingrained into our brains that we take it for granted as the norm and use that concept to judge ourselves and others. Finally, we will liberate ourselves from these concepts of beauty by cutting up the images we see around us and re-purposing them into individual beauty-affirming body-image collages.