Youth Curriculum, 12-28-25
Announcements:
Parents—thinking about taking a CSL Olympia workshop, but need childcare support? Let’s become a resource for one another. If you’re a parent willing to host a playdate, or if you’d like to connect with one of our trusted teen childcare sitters, please reach out to Adrienne, our Youth Director. Our next Intentions Retreat begins January 2nd! We’d love to help make your participation possible.
Curriculum:
December Theme: Celebrating the Light and the Dark
Week 4 Value: Sky Dancing
Affirmation: “With my consciousness deeply rooted in Spirit, I rise higher than I ever have into Spirit.”
Curriculum Overview
We close the year with a joyful, light-filled celebration of Christmas and new beginnings. This fun and festive Sunday invites youth and teens to experience Spirit as joy, freedom, and possibility through music, movement, and celebration. With the lights on and seasonal songs setting the tone, the focus shifts from reflection to rising.
Rooted in the theme Sky Dancing, youth explore what it means to let go of what no longer serves them and step into their own unique newness. As the year ends, they are invited to release the past with ease and welcome the coming year feeling lighter, freer, and uplifted in Spirit.
Spiritual Lesson:
Sky Dancing reminds us that when we are deeply rooted in Spirit, rising feels natural. In Science of Mind, release is not loss — it is liberation. When we consciously let go of what we no longer need to carry, we create space for joy, creativity, and expansion.
This lesson helps youth reflect on the past year with compassion and curiosity. They are encouraged to notice what feels heavy and what feels ready to lift. Through this awareness, they learn that spiritual growth can feel playful and freeing — like dancing with the sky rather than climbing toward it.
Spiritual Practice:
Youth are guided through a brief, joyful visualization. Standing tall, they imagine their feet rooted firmly in the ground, connected to Spirit. With each breath out, they imagine gently releasing something they no longer want to carry into the new year. With each breath in, they imagine lightness, freedom, and joy lifting them upward — as if they are floating, dancing, or gliding through the sky. Inhale: “I am rooted.” Exhale: “I rise freely.”
Active Listening: Music & Celebration
This Sunday, youth and teens will join their community in enjoying festive holiday music, filled with familiar melodies, joyful energy, and the warmth of singing and listening together as part of the Christmas celebration.
Creative Expression: Sky Dancing Movement Ritual
Youth and teens engage in a Sky Dancing Movement Ritual using ribbons, scarves, or streamers. As music plays, they move freely — swirling, stretching, leaping, and flowing — embodying the feeling of release and uplift. Movements represent letting go of the old and rising into new possibilities.
Before moving, youth are invited to name (silently or aloud) one thing they are ready to release and one quality they want to rise into in the new year, such as joy, courage, peace, or confidence. We will walk with a weighted blanket, with all the things they want to release attached to it using sticky notes. We remove the blanket ceremoniously and begin to dance into our new possibility.
Connecting: Spirit of Santa Celebration (after service)
As part of our festive Christmas Celebration, youth and teens will receive a special gift from “The Spirit of Santa.” This moment is rooted not in materialism, but in generosity, kindness, and the joy of giving and receiving in community. It serves as a reminder that Spirit shows up through love, surprise, and shared celebration.
Youth are invited to reflect on how they can carry the Spirit of Santa — generosity, joy, and goodwill — into the new year through their actions and choices.