Fall 2025
You’re Invited to “UUs Meeting the Moment: Learning from 2025-2026 Wave Cohorts”
Wave Cohorts are one practice of our Meet the Moment framework. Waves bring together groups of people who are invested in and working on the same “issue” to develop a shared analysis and understanding that, in turn, leads to taking strategic action together. Whether they gather to focus on Queer and Trans Communities in Crisis, Congregational Administration, Whole Church Religious Education, Risk Assessment, or any other timely and urgent topic of this Moment, Wave Cohorts are all asking: What do our shared values call us to do in response to this moment?
The Unitarian Universalist Association has been shepherding these Waves over the course of the past year, beginning with our staff and expanding outward to include UUs from across our movement. Since the Spring of 2025, UUs have gathered in Waves that brought together leaders, congregants, and professionals to build shared analysis, align strategy and action, and create synergy across our UU ecosystem.
Join us on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 from 8-9:30pm eastern/ 7-8:30pm central/ 6-7:30pm mountain/ 5-6:30pm pacific to learn more about this dynamic practice! We will hear from some of our facilitators about the Wave Cohort they led, the collective discernment of the participants, and how the energy from that Wave is shaping their ongoing work. UUA Senior Leadership will also share how the learning from these Wave Cohorts is driving the strategy and focus of our Association in this Moment.
Learn more and register HERE!
Fall 2025 Wave Cohorts
- Annual Program Fund (APF) Equity and Sustainability
- What Keeps You Up At Night? Congregational Risk Management
- Embodied Practices for Liberation: Growing Capacity for Embodiment in Community & Spirituality
- Exploring New Models for Faith Development and Religious Education
- Growing Administrative Capacity
- Helping Our Communities Thrive: Congregational Life Work
- Increasing Financial Resilience for UU Congregations
- Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life
- Now What: An Organizing Response to “What Should We Do?!”
- The Practice of Covenantal Living
- Queer and Trans Communities in Crisis
- Rooted and Rising: SWANA UUs in a Time of Global Reckoning
- Shaping Our Emerging UU Future
- The Wisdom We Carry: Listening and Leading as CER BIPOC UUs
- UPLIFT Access Wave Cohort
- Worship: The Collective Practice of Meaning Making