Curriculum: You the Creator (Adult supplement)
Author: Richard S. Kimball
Publisher: Green Timber Publications
Pub. Date: 1994
Available From: Green Timber Publications, PO Box 3884, Portland, ME 04104. Phone (207) 797-4180
Theme and Description Based on Kimball's youth curriculum You the Creator, this program gives adults an opportunity to unleash and appreciate their creative energies. Each session is divided into enjoyment, empowerment, and enlightenment activities. Based on the belief that everyone is creative, it emphasizes the relationship of anxiety and creativity, the idea of flow, the religious implications of creativity, and the idea of a universal creative force.
Goals for Participants
- To get in touch with and express their creative forces
- To overcome doubts and anxieties about their creativity
- To feel part of the universal creative force
- To have fun learning and growing.
Age Range Adult
Size of Group As space and supplies permit
Space Requirements Space and large tables for art activities
Number of Sessions 8
Length of Sessions 2 hours
Leader Training No special training or background is required. Familiarity with the youth curriculum You the Creator is necessary. co-leadership and good facilitation skills are recommended.
Leader Preparation 2 to 4 hours per session to read background and gather materials
Strengths Offers a very engaging, creative variety of activities Contains a strong religious and reflective dimension culminates in worship and celebration. Includes well organized sessions. Is playful and fun. Nurtures the creative self.
Limitations Requires gathering many art and other materials
Adaptability
- Can be used to plan intergenerational events
- can be used as the basis of camp, conference, or retreat programs.
Unitarian Universalist Values Explores the connection between creativity and religious experience. Affirms the worth and dignity of every person, and promotes the growth of the individual and the connection of each person to the community and the universe.
