Youth Curriculum, 6-15-25
Announcements:
Teen Visit to CSL Seattle
CSL Summer Teen Camp is July 19th! If you would like to support our teens attending camp, please visit our donations page and select “Give to Youth & Family.” Thank you for supporting this powerful, life-changing journey.
CSL Youth Garden Update
We have straw bales ready for planting in our new CSL garden! If you have flowers to donate, we’d love your help growing something beautiful. Would you like to contribute your time, talents, or resources? Contact Youth Director Adrienne Cherry. This month, we’re planning a rainbow garden to match our theme—come help choose what we plant and shape this colorful vision!
Curriculum Overview:
This week, our youth explored the powerful truth that freedom and justice are ongoing journeys. Through music, story, movement, and reflection, they embraced the spiritual truth that it’s never too late—or too soon—to be a force for good in the world.
June Monthly Theme: Celebrating Our Oneness: Honoring Unity, Diversity, and Loving Expression
Week 3 Value: It’s Never Too Late & It’s Never Too Soon
Affirmation: “It’s never too late to live my authentic life, and it’s never too soon to take the first step!”
Spiritual Lesson:
In today’s class, we explore what it means to be free in our hearts and actions. We honor the past, embrace the present, and plant intentions for a more just and loving world.
Mindfulness: Opening to Oneness
Youth center themselves through breath, visualization, and a simple affirmation connecting them to the Divine in all people. They reflect on the feeling of freedom and imagine sharing love and peace across the world.
Active Listening: Book/Music/Video
- Book: I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem by Jamie Lee Curtis
- Video: What Makes You Special? | TED-Ed Talk by Mariana Atencio
- Music: “Real” by Jason Mraz feat. Renee Stahl
- Book: It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr (younger class)
- Music: “True Colors” by Kindie artist Andrew & Polly (younger class)
Creative Expression: Justice Seeds
Youth write intentions for fairness, kindness, or courage on symbolic paper seeds. These intentions are “planted” together to grow a collective vision of justice in their community.
Lessons in Action: Justice Journey Relay
In this high-energy team relay, participants carry intention batons through challenge stations that prompt reflection and action. The activity symbolizes how working together in love and truth can advance justice.
Connecting: Designing Our Rainbow Garden of Unity…continued.
Youth are invited to plant veggie starts into the straw bale garden as a symbol of nurturing justice and community care. As they plant, they speak their “Justice Seed” intention aloud or silently—affirming that just like a garden needs tending, a just and loving world begins with small, intentional acts of growth.