As we finished Book 6's Unit 2, I realized the section had provided us with a lot of material to synthesize about becoming the best teachers we can be. The imagery in the quotes was very rich, and a lot of it seemed to relate to parts of the body (eg, "Make firm our steps"). So I came up with an exercise I'm calling "What the perfect Baha'i teacher looks like".

I drew a sketch of the outline of a human body (complete with internal organs), then did smaller drawings of body parts that seemed to have extra imagery attached to them (like the heart and the mind/brain). I gave the people in the group the assignment to find several quotes that could relate to any body part. Since our group is a mix of those who welcome art projects and those who really hate them, this allowed the artistic types to make illustrations (like offering what you have to say as if you were offering a gift to a king) and the non-artists simply to write down the quote on post-it notes. We had very few duplications, and at the end had a visual representation of how all those descriptions of good teaching qualities fit together into one individual. (It also served as a good review of the main points made in the section!)