[Dialogue] Materials for use with Church youth

[W. J.]

Funny you should ask, John.
   
  I'm currently facilitating two six-week small groups of laymen and clergy in which we watch and discuss contemporary secular films, basically using the ORID art form conversation method. Though the participants are all adults, I'd like to try the same format with youth.
   
  The value of this approach is that it is secular, not predigested religious pablum, and that it elicits the life experience and insights of the participants, taking these to a new level addressing their lives. Plus, it's very exciting for the group to be sharing insights into their own struggle with the "meaning of life" questions that they don't often give much thought.

  So you might ask questions like, "Where did you notice a character getting stuck in an illusion about the way life is, like a romantic illusion of what they were aching to get in their life?" And "How has that been a theme in your life?"
   
  I could suggest a list of recent films that might be especially interesting to teenagers, like The Motorcycle Diaries, Bad Education, Boys Don't Cry, Exotica, The History Boys, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tarnation, Y Tu Mamá También, Billy Elliott, A Home at the End of the World, Transamerica, L.I.E., The Dreamers, Heaven, and My Own Private Idaho, but I bet with a little work you could come up with your own list. 
   
  Some recent films I've used with or considered for an older audience inlcude Frida, All About My Mother, Hotel Rwanda, Don't Come Knocking, and Stranger Than Fiction, as well as these classics: Requiem for a Heavyweight, Ikiru, La Strada, and The Music Man.
   
  So why not develop your own program and let us know how it goes?
   
  Marshall Jones
   
  John Patterson <jpatterson at abbeynorth.ca> wrote:
                  Colleagues:
   
  Has anyone in the connection had experience with printed or video materials for nurturing the journey of young folk (teenagers) into a responsible look at Churchmanship, materials which are not a total embarrassment?
   
  Like some others, I find that any attempt that does not have an RS-1 grounded grasp of things is pretty difficult to recommend.
   
   
  Thanks.
   
   
  John


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