Animator: A facilitator of a junior youth group. Usually (but not always) an older youth who is a loving friend of the junior youth and facilitates the group.


Books 1-7: Workbooks that the study circles use. See "Study Circles" on this page.


Children's Classes: One of the core activities. The provision of education for children, whether Baha’i or not, in a locality, often focusing on the development of essential capacities and a strong moral framework that assists children to achieve excellence in material, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of life.


Clusters: Geographical areas within a country, designated by national or regional Baha’i institutions, to help facilitate grass-roots planning for the growth and development of Baha’i communities on a manageable scale.


Core Activities: Children’s classes, junior youth groups, devotional meetings, and study circles have been designated by the international governing body of the Baha’i community as the core activities that every Baha’i Community should try to provide as fundamental building blocks of community life, open to all people living within a locality.


Devotional Gatherings: One of the core activities. The regular gathering together of individuals in a locality for prayer and worship, considered an essential practice of the spiritual health and well being of a community.


Fireside:
A gathering for the purpose of introducing some aspect of the Baha'i teachings to the general public as well as friends and acquaintances of Baha'is.


Junior Youth Groups: Junior youth groups are made up of young people between the ages of 12-14 who gather together regularly to learn how to serve their communities, develop their powers of expression and sharpen their capacity to understand the moral implications of their thoughts and actions. They do all of this with the help of an animator (an older youth who acts as a peer and facilitator).


Pebbles To Pearls Program: A summer initiative that assisted animators to start local junior youth groups across the city of Toronto.


Ruhi Institute: A Baha’i training institute in Colombia. Its program of systematic and sustained education, particularly courses delivered through study circles, have been widely adopted by Baha’i Communities throughout the world.


Study Circles: One of the core activities. A delivery system for training institute courses, consisting of small groups of people, regardless of their ideas or beliefs, meeting on a regular basis in a locality with a trained tutor or facilitator. Materials developed by the Ruhi Institute are studied and active participation in a learning process is engendered, supplemented by artistic, service and social activities.


Training Institute: A systematic approach to learning aimed at imparting knowledge, skills, spiritual insights into fundamental aspects of the teachings and practices of the Baha’i Faith in order to better ourselves and the conditions of the world. The program of the training institute consists of a sequence of courses offered at a central location or through study circles at the local level.


Tutor: A facilitator of a study circle.