Discussion Plan: Inventing New Rituals
- Do you have any rituals that are specific to your family? If so, what are they and how did they come about?
- Do you have a bedtime ritual? A homework ritual?
- Do you have any rituals in your classroom or school? If so, what are they and how did they come about?
- Is there a difference between habits and rituals?
- Do rituals involve emotions? actions? reasons? (something else?)
- If I develop a way of doing something that only I know about, can I call it a ritual?
- Do rituals need to be connected to a religion?
- Can rituals be empowering? If so, in what ways?
- Does a ritual need to be a shared understanding between people?
- Can any repeated practice become a ritual?
- Can we create new religious rituals?
- Could the same ritual be practiced in two different religions?
- Are rituals important to you?
- Do you think rituals ought to be important? Why / Why not?
- Do you think human beings need rituals?