Leaders (Building the World We Dream About)
This program should be facilitated by a team of at least two young adult people. The team should include either a religious professional or lay person who has significant facilitation experience and personal experience in talking about race and ethnicity. Because this is a program requires significant preparation and planning time, facilitators must understand the commitment they are making.
Effective facilitators will have these strengths:
- Experience facilitating a group process
- Experience engaging in multicultural dialogue
- Ability to create and nurture a supportive, respectful, and safe community in the workshops and follow all congregational safe congregation guidelines and policies
- Time and willingness to prepare thoroughly
- Willingness to listen deeply and let "answers" emerge from the group process
- Integrity and the ability to maintain strong boundaries, especially in challenging conversations
- Commitment to Unitarian Universalist Principles and the faith development components of this program
- Respect for individuals regardless of age, race/ethnicity, social class, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ability, and a willingness to modify workshop plans to support the full inclusion of all participants
- Willingness to support healthy group process by reinforcing ground rules politely and confidently
- Ability to model respect for the congregation, district, or other sponsoring organization and its lay and professional leadership.
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Last updated on Friday, July 20, 2012.
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