Youth Curriculum, 3-22-26

Announcements:

Teen Beyond Limits Class

Parents of teens ages 13–18 are invited to register their teen for the CSL Teen Beyond Limits Class, facilitated by two practitioners from Seattle CSL. This five-week interactive Monday class starts April 6 (6-7:30pm) 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: Wanna Change the World? Do It
Affirmation: When I bring kindness and joy to the world, I help create positive change.

Curriculum Overview:

In Week 4, youth and teens explore how personal healing, joy, and kindness ripple outward into the world around them. After spending the month learning about imagination, inner awareness, and expectancy, this week focuses on action—how the energy we bring into a space can influence others and shape our communities. Through movement, cooperation, and reflection, students experience how positive inner states can uplift a group and inspire meaningful change.

Spiritual Lesson:

Real change often begins from within. When people cultivate kindness, joy, and compassion in their own lives, those qualities naturally extend into their relationships and communities.

Youth explore the idea that small actions—encouraging someone, helping a friend, including someone new, or sharing kindness—can create powerful ripple effects. By choosing compassion and joy, they learn they are not only shaping their own experience but also contributing to a world that works for everyone. This lesson emphasizes that every person has the power to influence the energy of a room, a relationship, or a community through their choices and presence.

Spiritual Practice: Joy in Motion Experience & Compassion-in-Action Reflection

Youth begin with a playful Joy in Motion Experience, a cooperative movement activity where teams complete simple challenges that require encouragement, teamwork, and shared energy. As students move, laugh, and collaborate, they observe how positive attitudes and supportive actions influence the entire group. This activity helps them experience how joy, enthusiasm, and encouragement can spread quickly and create connection.

Active Listening: Book / Music / Video

Younger Children (Ages 4–7)

• Book: Maybe Something Beautiful
  Shows how creativity and kindness can transform a community.
• Music: Lovely Day (instrumental or short segment)
  Encourages joy and positive energy.
• Video: Hair Love
  Highlights love, perseverance, and connection.

Children & Preteens (Ages 7–12)

• Reading: Excerpt from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
  Explores how one person’s determination can positively impact an entire community.
• Music: Brave
  Encourages courage and using one’s voice.
• Video: Short kindness and cooperation story from SoulPancake highlighting positive social experiments.

Teens (Ages 13–16)

• Reading: Excerpt from The Book of Joy
  Explores how joy and compassion can influence personal well-being and the world.
• Music: Higher Love
  Encourages uplifting energy and connection.
• Video: Short reflection from Greater Good Science Center on compassion and social connection.
• Creative Expression: Expectancy Bridge Installation

Youth continue expanding the month-long interactive project for the 5th Sunday Youth Service Takeover. This week they add a “Ripple of Kindness” layer to the pathway display created earlier in the month.

These ripples are added around the pathway display, visually showing how small actions spread outward and influence the larger community.

During the 5th Sunday Youth Service, youth may+ invite the congregation to reflect on one small act of kindness they want to practice during the week.

Connecting: Compassion Circle

Youth complete the sentence:

“When I bring kindness into the world, I can…”

Group Response:

“Help create the change I want to see.”