Animator
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The Animator is the person who leads, or rather animates (!) a Junior Youth Group. The term animator is the one used for anyone who takes inanimate objects and moulds or changes them in such a way as to seemingly impart life into them, for example by animating puppets or plasticine models for a film. In Bahá'í terms, then, the animator takes control of the inanimate materials, e.g. workbooks, and puts life into them for the junior youth. The training for this role is essentially study of Book 5 in the main sequence of Ruhi materials. In most cases, the animator will have access to a Junior Youth Co-ordinator, who works with all the animators in a cluster, giving advice and organising on-going training. At certain geographical points, a Resource Person is situated, who is one stage above the Junior Youth Co-ordinators, and works to impart best practice more widely.
