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Orisa Lifestyle Activities: Week 2

Traditions in Transition: Your family reaches back scores of generations and has perhaps migrated thousands of miles to the various places you all call home. And while many things change, some things remain the same. How has your family responded to change?

ACTIVITIES
  • Visit or contact the oldest living members of your maternal and paternal lineages
  • Ask them about their lifestyle growing up; the food they ate, where it came from, distribution of labor, communications and decision making processes, the ways in which youth interacted with elders, the family's relationship to outsiders, religious practices and so on

COMPETENCIES
Discuss these questions with your family. 
  • Know: What are some key experiences the elders described? What kinds of values resulted from those experiences? How do you see them expressed throughout your family?  
  • Commit: What can you do to create more experiences that strengthen your family's core values? 
  • Practice: Do one thing everyday this week to reinforce your family's core values.  
    SHARING
    Describe your experience with this activity.
    • What was easiest?
    • What was most difficult? 
    • What stands out most for you as a result of completing this activity?