Youth Curriculum, 3-29-26
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 5 Value: Being a Possibilitarian — I Choose to Create a Positive World
Affirmation: As a Possibilitarian, I choose to create a positive world.
Curriculum Overview:
Week 5 is a powerful culmination of the month as youth and teens step into leadership for the 5th Sunday Youth Service Takeover. This week shifts from classroom learning to embodied experience, where students bring imagination, expectancy, and compassionate action to life through leading the service. Youth and teens demonstrate what they’ve explored all month—showing that they are not just learning these principles, but actively living them.
Spiritual Lesson:
This week integrates all four weeks of learning into one lived experience. Youth and teens have explored imagination as a creative force, learned how their inner world shapes their experience, practiced expectancy and belief, and discovered how small acts of kindness create meaningful change.
Now, they step into the understanding that they are creators, leaders, and expressions of possibility. By choosing their thoughts, actions, and contributions intentionally, they help shape a world rooted in connection, joy, and compassion. This lesson emphasizes ownership, confidence, and the power of showing up authentically.
Spiritual Practice: Living the Practice
Rather than a single guided activity, this week becomes a living spiritual practice. Youth and teens embody mindfulness, creativity, courage, and connection as they lead the service. Through speaking, sharing, guiding, and participating, they practice being present, expressive, and intentional in real time.
Active Listening: Service Experience
Instead of traditional book, music, and video segments, youth and teens curate and lead a full-service experience that includes:
- A mix of traditional music and music selected by teens
- A youth-led talk centered on imagining and creating a world they want to live in
- An interactive activity inviting the congregation to engage their imagination and participation
- Prayer and reflective moments
- Joyful, expressive elements with music and movement
- A special spiritual practice inspired by teen camp
This allows the entire community to experience the theme through the voices and creativity of the youth.
Creative Expression: Youth-Led Service Design
Throughout the month, youth and teens have been contributing ideas, creativity, and intention into the service. In Week 5, this becomes a fully realized creative expression of their collective vision.
They bring together:
- Their ideas about a world that works for all
- Their understanding of inner awareness and expectancy
- Their experiences of kindness and action
- The service itself becomes the creative expression, demonstrating imagination in action and possibility in motion.
Connecting: Community Experience
Youth and teens guide the congregation in moments of connection—inviting reflection, participation, and shared intention. Through interactive elements, the entire community becomes part of the experience, reinforcing that creating a positive world is something we do together.