Rise Up and Call Her Name
A Woman-honoring Journey Into Global Earth-based SpiritualitiesBy Elizabeth Fisher
- Theme and Description
- This multimedia program provides a unique format for learning about goddesses from a variety of traditions, hearing and telling personal stories, creating sacred art, participating in rituals, talking about important questions in feminist spirituality, and engaging in personal discovery. Includes a leader's guide, video, 2 audiocassettes, sourcebook and journal, and a goddess booklet.
- Goals for Participants
- To bring awareness of the processes of nature into contemporary spiritual life;
To nurture self-respect in women and respect for women in men;
To expand appreciation of and respect for Earth-based spiritual traditions and the earth-honoring aspects of other religious belief systems;
To open doors to cross-cultural interaction and foster respect for diversity.
- Age Range
- Adult
- Size of Group
- Flexible
- Space Requirements
- A comfortable, quiet space for the group to sit in a circle. Some sessions require space for art activities and video viewing.
- Number and Length of Sessions
- 13 sessions
Length: 2-1/2 hours - Leader Training
- Training is offered and recommended, but not required. Good facilitation skills, openness to shared leadership, and a commitment to the values of the program are appropriate leadership qualities for this curriculum. Storytelling and music are key activities.
- Leader Preparation
- Due to the richness and variety of the material, this program requires considerable leader preparation time.
- Strengths
- Explores cultures outside Eurocentric, Jewish, and Christian traditions.
Includes extensive background material and resources to support the sessions.
Contains highly diverse, women-centered sources and activities.
Provides a holistic experience through engaging and varied activities, including journal writing, ritual,
storytelling, music, chanting, dialoguing, arts, crafts, dance, etc.
Presents clear, well-organized session plans.
Shows understanding of, and sensitivity to, cultural-diversity issues.
Includes a 2-hour video and 2 audio cassettes of chants, songs, stories, and instrumental selections. - Limitations
- The amount of material (the sourcebook and journal is about 400 pages) may be intimidating to some.
Leaders and participants need to be sensitive to issues associated with borrowing religious rituals from traditions other than their own. - Adaptability
- Senior-high students can be successfully included in this program.
- Unitarian Universalist Values
- Affirms the inherent worth and dignity of every person, addresses the spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature, and promotes respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. It also embraces and affirms multiculturalism.
Reviewed on June 30, 1996
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