Leadership Development Conferences
Leadership Development Conferences (LDC) are small working conferences designed for youth and adult leaders. A leadership development conference focuses on helping the participants learn how to be leaders.At an LDC, Young Religious Unitarian Universalist (YRUU) youth and advisors learn concrete leadership skills within a structure that helps them reflect on why they are involved in YRUU, what roles they play in their YRUU group (local or district/regional), and what they think it means to be a leader in YRUU. Leadership training is a process of empowerment: giving the members of the group the skills they need to have power in their group.
An LDC can also provide benefits to local youth groups and congregations; the youth and advisors returning from LDC conferences often bring their congregations new skills and energy. Most importantly, an LDC is about personal empowerment, offering each participant a chance to grow in terms of actual skills, self-confidence as a leader, and enthusiasm and commitment.
Who should attend an LDC?
Youth who want to learn to be
leaders; advisors who want to learn to be empowering; directors of religious education (DRE's) and ministers who
want to learn to support youth programming.
The recommended ratio of youth to adult participants is 3:1.
To request a training, please contact the Youth Office or fill out the online form.
For more information contact youth @ uua.org.
Last updated on Wednesday, November 28, 2007.
