This document summarizes a workshop on worship arts immersion that introduces participants to the educational design of Starr King School through experiential learning. The workshop explores the history and ethics of spiritual practice, experiments with worship planning tools, and considers how to sustain learning in various settings. It provides an introduction to Starr King's pedagogy using visual, visceral, and reflective exercises to cultivate an adaptive learning community.

1. A worship arts
immersionSIX WORDS ONE IMAGE

2. I KNOW THIS ROSE WILL OPEN

3. And the people respond:
I know this rose will open
LET US PRAY

4. I know this rose will open
I know my fear
will burn away
I know my soul will
unfurl it’s wings
I know this rose will open
~Mary Grigolia
LET US SING

5. WE CENTER IN COMMUNITY

6. WELCOME TO STARR KING LOUISVILLE!

7. For this workshop we seek to offer a
taste of the Starr King pedagogy through
a worship arts immersion class:
 to introduce participants to the
emergent educational design of the
school (contextualizing)
 to explore history and ethics of
personal/communal spiritual practice
(study)
 to experiment with visual and visceral
worship planning tools (action)
 to consider ways of sustaining
learning in congregation, at work and
in family as a leadership imperative
(reflection)
 to embody the temporal and
transformational possibilities of a
learning community of practice
(integration)
www.sksm.edu
OUR
INTENTION

8.  Advances Starr King's mission to educate
people for Unitarian Universalist ministry
and progressive religious leadership for
society
 Opens Starr King School to students living
and working in settings across the
continent as well as in Berkeley
 Employs new modes of relational and
constructive learning and new educational
technologies
 Embodies the School's Unitarian
Universalist commitments to education
that counters oppressions, creates just
and sustainable communities, and
cultivates multi-religious life and learning.
EMERGENT
EDUCATIONAL
DESIGN

9. Check out our
Summer 2013
Symposium
August
VIEWS
FROM
THE
SCHOOL

10. Loving Our Earth
2013 Symposium
With Dr. Joanna Macy
August 28-29
Berkeley/Oakland, California
www.SKSMSymposium.Org
Alumni
Students
Friends
Faculty
A community of
leaders and
learners:
relational &
adaptive
REGISTER
NOW!

11. Using new educational
technologies, students and
teachers live and work in
settings all around the
globe
A vibrant in-person learning
community in Berkeley
provides a home base
Global immersions deepen
multi-religious and cross-
cultural learning
Students
engage in
multiple ways
of learning in
preparation for
ministries in
congregations…
and beyond…
MODES OF
LEARNING

12. A WORSHIP ARTS IMMERSION

13. Multivocal Worship
Think Like A Film
Maker
Expand Your Comfort
Zones
Understanding
generations in
congregational life
“Bridging” Worship
Styles
Cultural Competence
PREPARING LEADERS

14. UNDERSTANDING GENERATIONS
What is holy? Smokes? Bagel? Toledo?

15. “BRIDGING” WORSHIP STYLES
Laughter. The most elegant of homilies.

16. CULTURAL COMPETENCE

17.  Worshipping Together with
Questioning Minds, by Sophia Lyon
Fahs. Copyright (C) 1965 by Sophia
Lyon Fahs.
“In some of our church schools it has
become almost a habit for the leader
of the services of worship to have
some natural object, or objects, on
an altar or table in the chancel or on
the platform where it may become
the center of attention and awaken
curiosity. Perhaps the object is a
branch of autumn leaves, a rose or
lily, a flowering plant, an unusual
stone, or a bowl of apples or
oranges...”
Assignment:
Offer personal
theological
reflection of
words on the
page vs the
image vs. a
tangible item vs.
a representative
symbol in
services of
worship in your
community
context.
HISTORY
AS A
SPIRITUAL
PRACTICE

18.  SAVING PARADISE (p. 409)
"Knowing that paradise is here and now
is a gift that comes to those who
practice the ethics of paradise. This way
of living is not Utopian. It does not
spring simply from the imagination of a
better world but from a profound
embrace of this world. It does not begin
with knowledge or hope. It begins with
love.... Paradise can be experienced as
spiritual illumination of the
heart, mind, and senses felt in moments
of religious ecstasy, and it can be known
in ordinary life lived with reverence and
responsibility.... Paradise is not a place
free from suffering or conflict, but it is a
place in which Spirit is present and love
is possible...."
What are your
sources of
creative outlet?
When, where
and how are
your senses “in
Paradise?”
RESOURCES
FOR STUDY
AND
REFLECTION

19. Could it be 5 words?
Or 8 words? (yes)
Concise
Poetic
Refined
Multilingual
Literacy
Connective
Hemmingway
The Race Card
WHY SIX WORDS?

20. You say…
I mean…
We make meaning…
Tools for
multigenerational
growth and learning
WHY ONE IMAGE?

21. What are the
practices in your local
congregation around
the use of images of
children and youth in
church publications?
 See more resource
links at
sixwordsoneimage.com
Where do the arts
appear in your
community?
How are copyright
laws, fair use and
worship inspiration in
alignment with
community values?
ON ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

22. Everyday?
 But but but…
 There is guidance for each of
us, and by lowly listening, we
shall hear the right word.
Certainly there is a right for
you that needs no choice on
your part. Place yourself in
the middle of the stream of
power and wisdom which
flows into your life.
Then, without effort, you are
impelled to truth and to
perfect contentment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes?
 And and and…
 Worship Associates
 Small Group Ministry
 Multigenerational
Mission Work
 Border Crossing
SOME WORDS ABOUT PRACTICE

23. Words of Wisdom from Waldo…
“Pay so much honor to the visits of Truth to your
mind as to record those thoughts that have shown
therein. It is not for what is recorded, though that
may be the agreeable entertainment of later years,
but for the habit of rendering account to yourself of
yourself in some more rigorous manner and at
some more certain intervals than mere
conversation or casual reverie of solitude require.”
WRITING AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

24. Immersed in Learning
sixwordsoneimage.com
Facebook Group
Tumblr
Email
Mfavreault@sksm.edu
The booth - #501!
Right Here!
Rite Here Now
Check out the
website(s!) and
see us at the
booth for the
chance to
explore and
share in this
taste of “multi-
locational”
learning
THE
LEARNING
BEGINS

25. Download
Look Up
Old fashioned
paper
Engage on
Social Media
Help one
another
THE
SCAVENGER
HUNT

26. The Transcendentalists read from one another’s
journals. This was a form of conversation and a valued
spiritual practice. A chance to “Create a Temple of
Thought” such as Emerson describes:
 “Conversation acquaints us with great secrets of
human nature. When it is earnest, the company are
apprised of their unity; they are apprised that the
thought rises to an equal height in all the
persons, that all have a spiritual property in what
was said as well as the sayer. They all wax wiser than
they were. It is a Temple, this unity of their thought
in which every one is conscious of a greater self
possession, and thinks and acts with unusual
solemnity.”
ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION

27. Booth 518 SixWordsOneImage.com
LET THE CONVERSATION CONTINUE