some love quotes for the Love Curriculum

`from the definition of “womanist”
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
Alice Walker “Searching for Our Mother’s Gardens”
I’ll live for the people.
I’ll die for the people.
I’ll work for the people,
because I love the people.
Fred [...]

Time Exercise Extended

Time and the Creation of the Moment(s)
Time of Your Life
Partner exercise:
Part One:
What do you LOVE to do?
Each partner names some of their favorite things to do without stopping until the facilitators say “switch!”
Part Two:
This-Is-How-We-Do
On any week day what do you spend the most time doing?
Each partner goes down the list starting with what consumes most [...]

Radio Exercise Continued

1. Because I said so: Alternative Instructions
“Throw your hands in the air… and wave ‘em like you just don’t care.”
Name one song that you’ve heard on the radio recently that comes with instructions. →
By: __________________________________
What does the song tell you to do?
the last song I heard told me [...]

Alternate Youth Leadership Curriculum

International Black Youth Summit Agenda (Structure)
Introduction: What is the history of the summit? What is the purpose of the summit.
We exist to facilitate the connection, self-expression and empowerment of young people of African descent around the world. We are young people making our visions real in our communities and exemplifying the principles of youth, transformation, [...]

Youth Leadership Course Template

Youth Leadership Course
template:
introduction of the facilitators and the summit
opening go around 48/24 hours from now (starting with the facilitators)
distinctions: community and individual examples
trigger
quick fix
no out there
no right way to be
listening
clearing
permission to engage
the being black questions:
what do other people say about black people?
what do black people say about black people?
what is the possibility of being black?
the [...]

A Love Movement

A Love Movement
Purpose of the love course: To provide participants with access to their lives as love. To instigate falling in love (with oneself, a community, a planet) as a new political mode of power and action.
Love exists in life as a powerful, unconditional and infinite entity.
Culture creates our expressions of love, but [...]