Youth Curriculum, 3-15-26

Announcements:

Teen Beyond Limits Class

Parents of teens ages 13–18 are invited to register their teen for the CSL Teen Beyond Limits Class, offered online by teen advisor Rose Palmer of Seattle CSL. This five-week interactive Monday class teaches teens how to create Spiritual Mind Treatments, with guidance and support as they write four treatments during the course. Teens will also share a short presentation with our community about their experience.

This class counts the same as the adult Beyond Limits Foundation class and includes certification!

If you would like to support a teen in participating, donations can be made on our Youth & Family page to help with the $180 class fee. Your support helps nurture future CSL leaders.

March Theme: What If? Imagination, Expectancy, and Becoming Possibility
Week 3 Value: What We’ll See Will Defy Explanation
Affirmation: I expect good and move forward with courage and confidence.

Curriculum Overview:

In Week 3, youth and teens explore the power of expectancy—how believing something good is possible can influence effort, confidence, and outcomes. Building on Week 2’s understanding that our inner world shapes our experience, this week helps students see how encouragement, belief, and supportive community can strengthen resilience and motivation. Through interactive challenges, reflection, and visualization, youth experience how expecting good can help them move through uncertainty with courage and curiosity.

Spiritual Lesson:

Expectancy is the belief that something meaningful and positive can unfold—even when the outcome is not yet visible. When we hold hopeful expectations and support one another, we activate creativity, perseverance, and trust in possibility.

Youth learn that belief is not about controlling outcomes but about showing up with openness and courage. By practicing expectancy, youth begin to understand that their mindset can influence their willingness to try, grow, and keep going when challenges arise.

Spiritual Practice: Expectation Experiment Relay & Future Me Visualization

Youth begin with an Expectation Experiment Relay, where teams complete simple physical or puzzle challenges while teammates offer either encouraging or neutral words. After each round, students reflect on how the energy of encouragement—or the absence of it—affected their focus, confidence, and willingness to try again. This playful experiment helps youth observe how belief and support influence outcomes.

The activity transitions into a reflective Future Me Visualization. Students close their eyes and imagine themselves in a future moment where they have grown, overcome challenges, and achieved something meaningful. They notice how it feels to imagine success and identify the qualities—such as persistence, courage, and curiosity—that helped them get there. This practice helps youth experience expectancy as a powerful inner resource.

Active Listening: Book / Music / Video

Younger Children (Ages 4–7)

• Book: The Magical Yet
  Encourages perseverance and belief in possibilities not yet achieved.
• Music: Try Everything (instrumental or clean segment)
  Celebrates resilience and learning through effort.
• Video: Piper
  Shows courage and growth through trying again.

Children & Preteens (Ages 7–12)

• Reading: The Wild Robot (short excerpt about learning and adaptation)
  Explores resilience and learning through unexpected challenges.
• Music: Hall of Fame
  Encourages belief in personal potential and effort.
• Video: TED-Ed short lesson on how belief and mindset influence success.

Teens (Ages 13–16)

• Reading: Atomic Habits (short excerpt on identity and belief)
  Explores how expectations influence habits and growth.
• Music: The Climb
  Focuses on perseverance and growth through challenges.
• Video: Greater Good Science Center short clip on the science of hope and resilience.
• Creative Expression: Expectancy Bridge Installation

Youth continue building the month-long 5th Sunday Youth Service Takeover project by expanding the “Inside Creates Outside” pathway into an “Expectancy Bridge.”

These cards are added along the pathway, visually showing how belief → action → growth creates movement forward.

During the 5th Sunday Youth Service, youth can guide the congregation in reflecting on a personal hope and adding their own encouraging belief to the display.

Connecting: Courage Circle

Youth complete the sentence:

“When I believe something good is possible, I can…”

Group Response:

“I move forward with courage.”