Past courses, which we may offer again:
Mapmaking
Designed for new members of the congregation and those who still feel new. Mapmaking offers activities to help you clarify your spiritual journey, explore your potential role in the congregation and build significant relationships with others in the congregation.
3-session Discussion of the book The Righteous Mind
Many Unitarian and Universalists care deeply about issues of social justice and are concerned about the direction of our society. We seem to be in a great win-lose battle with conservative thinkers who see completely different solutions to the human dilemma. The state of the dialogue between liberals and conservatives is coming close to violence when you think of the G20, and police disruptions of peaceful demonstrations around pipelines and fracking. It is time we learned to talk each other’s language so we can look for a non-violent way to work toward solutions to serious problems like inequality and climate change. Discussion led by Frances Deverell.
Compassionate Communication with Lucie Larose
This workshop offers language and skills which reinforce our natural (but not necessarily habitual) capacity to connect with our humanity under many different situations, even the most trying. The intention in compassionate communication is to remind ourselves of our choices in every moment, and to make clear, conscious and compassionate decisions for self and others, in the now. This approach to communication gives us practical ways to live out our highest purpose in every relational interaction, as it teaches what we still need to learn. Compassionate communication allows us to restructure our thinking, acting, listening and speaking through radically honest and authentic presence and compassionate listening to self and others. Some of the tools we will use are: pure observation, awareness of feelings that describe our state of being only, and understanding of basic human needs we all have. We will begin to practice how to clearly request what we need, without being attached to the outcome, knowing that fulfilling our needs is our own unique privilege and responsibility. ~ based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication www.cnvc.org.
Reproductive Justice Course
Rooting us in our religious history and theological callings, this six-week curriculum outlines the distinctions between reproductive “health,” “rights,” and “justice”; opens awareness of reproductive oppressions; offers opportunities to learn about ourselves and each other as sexual and reproductive beings; and equips us to move forward, out into the world, with integrity and vision.
Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are called to answer the chilling political debate on reproductive rights with calls for reproductive ‘justice’ and respect for the fullness of every person’s reproductive and sexual life. This curriculum was written to help UUs take a call to action.
For more information, see www.uua.org/documents/washingtonoffice/reproductivejustice/curriculum/uuacurriculumrjcombined.pdf
Mapmaking
Designed for new members of the congregation and those who still feel new. Mapmaking offers activities to help you clarify your spiritual journey, explore your potential role in the congregation and build significant relationships with others in the congregation.
3-session Discussion of the book The Righteous Mind
Many Unitarian and Universalists care deeply about issues of social justice and are concerned about the direction of our society. We seem to be in a great win-lose battle with conservative thinkers who see completely different solutions to the human dilemma. The state of the dialogue between liberals and conservatives is coming close to violence when you think of the G20, and police disruptions of peaceful demonstrations around pipelines and fracking. It is time we learned to talk each other’s language so we can look for a non-violent way to work toward solutions to serious problems like inequality and climate change. Discussion led by Frances Deverell.
Compassionate Communication with Lucie Larose
This workshop offers language and skills which reinforce our natural (but not necessarily habitual) capacity to connect with our humanity under many different situations, even the most trying. The intention in compassionate communication is to remind ourselves of our choices in every moment, and to make clear, conscious and compassionate decisions for self and others, in the now. This approach to communication gives us practical ways to live out our highest purpose in every relational interaction, as it teaches what we still need to learn. Compassionate communication allows us to restructure our thinking, acting, listening and speaking through radically honest and authentic presence and compassionate listening to self and others. Some of the tools we will use are: pure observation, awareness of feelings that describe our state of being only, and understanding of basic human needs we all have. We will begin to practice how to clearly request what we need, without being attached to the outcome, knowing that fulfilling our needs is our own unique privilege and responsibility. ~ based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication www.cnvc.org.
Reproductive Justice Course
Rooting us in our religious history and theological callings, this six-week curriculum outlines the distinctions between reproductive “health,” “rights,” and “justice”; opens awareness of reproductive oppressions; offers opportunities to learn about ourselves and each other as sexual and reproductive beings; and equips us to move forward, out into the world, with integrity and vision.
Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are called to answer the chilling political debate on reproductive rights with calls for reproductive ‘justice’ and respect for the fullness of every person’s reproductive and sexual life. This curriculum was written to help UUs take a call to action.
For more information, see www.uua.org/documents/washingtonoffice/reproductivejustice/curriculum/uuacurriculumrjcombined.pdf
