As we designed Wave Cohorts for scale, we started small and imagined big. The inaugural Spring 2025 Wave Cohorts were an initial, experimental step intended to bring the right thought leaders into intentional conversation about some of the most crucial opportunities and challenges facing our faith today. Led by UUA staff and populated by invitation to experts, experimenters, collaborators, and innovators in the topic of focus, these ten augural Wave Cohorts spent many months building a shared analysis, identifying needs and opportunities of the moment, and working towards a shared understanding of where our UU values lead us to act in this moment on their topic of focus.
This first “Wave” of cohorts debuted their learnings at General Assembly in Baltimore, with each cohort hosting its own space where participants got to both learn from and experience the Wave Cohort process through the lens of their room’s topic. Whether you were part of one of these spaces at GA and want to see what you missed in the other rooms, or you’re just learning about the Meet the Moment framework and the Wave Cohort process, we encourage you to check out the rich video content and resources that we captured from each of these cohorts at GA 2025.
If you’re interested in learning about Meet the Moment and Wave Cohorts more generally, you can check out these videos from the Meet the Moment: General Wave Cohort, which happened exclusively at GA. Led by Revs. Ashley Horan and Kierstin Homblette Allen, this General Wave Cohort featured a high level focus on the Meet the Moment framework and on Unitarian Universalism as a whole, and then included some learning and analysis from UUA Senior Leadership, as well as opportunities for participants to engage the Wave process on focused topics of their choice.
Cohorts at General Assembly 2025
“Worship — The Collective Practice of Meaning Making” with Rev. Byron Tyler Coles and Rev. Erika Hewitt
“Intersectional AR/AO/MC Transformation in UU Organizations” with Rev. Ranwa Hammamy, and Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
“National Emerging Adult Taskforce (NEAT)” with Eric Dew Bliss and members of the NEAT Spring team
“Being Guided by Youth Into the Future” with Jennica Davis-Hockett and Mylo Way
“Growing Administrative Confidence, Competence, & Capacity Across Congregations” with Jan Gartner and Emily Cherry
- “Beyond Generosity: Practicing Our Values and Funding UU Projects” with Halcyon Westall, Hillary Goodridge, and Heather Janules
“Caring for Parents” with Lauren Wyeth, Rev. Erica Baron and Dr. Melissa James
“Shaping Our Emerging UU Future” with Rev. Aisha Ansano, Rev. Alicia Forde, and Tanja Turner Bell
“Whole Church Religious Education” with Lenore Bajare-Dukes, Joy Berry, and Natalie Briscoe
“Queer & Trans Communities in Crisis” with Rev. Michael Crumpler, Maij Mai, and Mylo Way
