Rise Up and Call Her Name

			Rise Up and Call Her Name

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A Woman-honoring journey Into Global Earth-based Spirituality

Author: Elizabeth Fisher

Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation

Pub. Date: 1994

Available From: UU Women's Federation, 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108-3800. Phone (617) 742-2100, x692

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 of Sessions 13

Length of Sessions 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 plansShows 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 Earthcentered 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.