Workshops
General Assembly (GA) 2016 happened in Columbus, OH, from June 22-26.
Workshops and presentations at GA have been provided by a variety of organizations and staff groups. Not all presentations have been reviewed for accuracy or timeliness.
Workshop presenters may submit materials for inclusion on this site to web@uua.org; do not submit copyrighted materials unless you own the copyright and grant the UUA the right to reproduce them without restriction.
Accessibility
- Event #330: Bringing Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry (Video)
- Event #409: Meaning and Spirit in Aging (MP3)
Black Lives of UU Track
- Event #233: Black Lives Convening and Explicitly Black Spaces (Video)
- Event #331: Black Lives in Unitarian Universalist History (Video)
- Event #349: An Introduction to Anti-Blackness (MP3)
- Event #405: Our Ongoing Work (Video)
Building a Transformative Movement for Racial Justice Track
Commission on Social Witness
- Event #234: Reproductive Justice: Implementing a Statement of Conscience (MP3)
- Event #251: Proposed Congregational Study Action Issues for 2016-2020 (Video)
- Event #312: Escalating Inequality: Intersections of Faith, Race & Class (MP3)
- Event #345: Hearing on the Newly Selected Congregational Study/Action Issue (MP3)
- Event #414: Mini-Assemblies on Proposed Actions of Immediate Witness (MP3)
Faith Development
- Christianity as the 'Other': Communicating with the Majority Religion
Video and Handouts - Beyond Holidays: Learning and Worshipping Without Appropriating
Slides and Resources - Event #205: Beyond Holidays: Learning and Worshipping without Appropriating (MP3)
- Event #352: Living the Principles: Theme-based Programming for All Ages (Video)
History
- Event #256: History of White UU Anti-Racism (MP3)
- Event #431: The Radical (Unitarian) Life of Peter Clark (MP3)
Interfaith Relationships
- Event #215: "Yes, And..." Tools for Multifaith Dialogue (MP3)
- Event #235: Interfaith Experience from a Young Adult Perspective (MP3)
- Event #237: Cincinnati Collaborative Agreement: A Model for Police Community Relations (MP3)
- Event #238: Spiritual Community Innovations Across Faiths (Video)
- Event #240: Hands & Hearts: Interfaith Collaboration to Support Syrian Refugees (MP3)
- Event #247: Muslim Voices in Unitarian Universalism: Nuances at the Intersection (MP3)
- Event #327: Growing In Faith: Spiritual Challenges of Multifaith Justice Work (MP3)
- Event #333: Using Interfaith Community Organizing Methods in Your Congregation (Video)
- Event #354: Zen Buddhism as Universalism: A Historical Reflection (Video)
International
- Event #222: The Unitarian Mission to Japan: Impact and Lessons (MP3)
- Event #239: Growing Faithful Solidarity: Interfaith Conversations with the Qur'an (MP3)
- Event #322: Organizing Our Congregations More Effectively for Social Justice (MP3)
- Event #337: Black Lives Matter Outside Our Borders (MP3)
- Event #339: Faith and Interfaith Encounters in India (MP3)
- Event #346: Grassroots Interfaith Community Building Against Islamophobia (MP3)
- Event #412: Piercing the Heart, Human Rights Education Changing Youth (MP3)
- Event #415: Why the World's Religions Must Unite to End Torture (MP3)
- Event #426: Interfaith and International: The UU Discipline of Collaboration (MP3)
Leadership
- Congregational Leadership in the Interim
Video - Healthy Leadership 101: New Patterns for Conflict Transformation
Video - Success in Small Churches: Hope in Unitarian Universalism's Heartland
Video - Adaptive Leadership for Tricky Challenges
Video and Handout - Intercultural Skills for a Diverse World
Audio Recording and Handout - Creating a Listening Community: Introduction to Restorative Circles
Audio Recording and Handouts - The Spirituality of Welcoming All
Video - Event #232: 360: With You at Every Turn (Video)
- Event #416: Leading the Way: Develop New Skills, Build Multigenerational Community (MP3)
Multiculturalism
- What Are Microaggressions and Why Should We Care?
Video and Handouts - Event #209: The Joy of the Journey: The Road to Multiculturalism (MP3)
- Event #248: Pride of Place: Affirming African American Unitarian Universalist Identity (MP3)
Multigenerational
- Event #320: David and Goliath: A Multigenerational Workshop (MP3)
- Event #407: Aesop, First UU? Fun with our Seven Principles (Video)
Practical Arts
- Event #207: Got New Staff? Set Them Up for Success! (MP3)
- Event #210: Legacy or Renaissance: Small Congregations on the Edge (MP3)
- Event #213: Conflict-Why It's Important and How to Work Through It (MP3)
- Event #218: Turmoil: Connecting Hearts to Hands in Times of Crisis (MP3)
- Event #228: The Spiritual Practice of Welcoming All (MP3)
- Event #317: Outreach 101: Join Our Cause, Not Our Club (Video)
- Event #328: UU Models of Partnership and Multi-Site Ministries (MP3)
- Event #410: Success in Small Churches: Hope in Unitarian Universalism's Heartland (MP3)
- Event #422: Innovating in Covenant: Emerging Ministries Reach Out (MP3)
Racial Justice
- Event #214: The Third Reconstruction: Rise of a New Justice Movement (Video)
- Event #229: Sacred Conversations: Bearing Witness to Voices From the Margins (Video)
- Event #252: Pledging to End Racism (MP3)
- Event #254: Standing on the Side of Love: Black Lives Matter (MP3)
- Event #306: Developing Our Spiritual Leadership for Collective Liberation (MP3)
- Event #311: Being White in the Black Lives Matter Movement (Video)
- Event #334: On Call for the Movement: Enter, Rejoice, Come In! (MP3)
- Event #424: Coming to the Table: Healing America's Racial Wounds (MP3)
Religious Education
- Faith Formation Through Storytelling by and for All Ages
Audio Recording and Slides - Event #227: Faith Formation through Storytelling by and for All Ages (MP3)
- Event #253: Fahs Lecture: A Nation of Religious Minorities (Video)
Religious Professionals
- Navigating the Ministerial Settlement System
Video - Got New Staff? Set Them Up For Success
Video - Event #226: Spiritual Community Innovations Across Faiths (MP3)
- Event #319: Military Ministry: Free Exercise and Pluralism (MP3)
- Event #342: Congregational Leadership in the Interim Time (MP3)
- Event #357: Fair Compensation and UUA Congregations: Revising the UUA Guidelines (MP3)
- Event #419: Economic Sustainability of Ministries: An Ongoing Discussion (MP3)
- Event #428: The Visible and Invisible in Ministry (MP3)
Sexual Identity and Gender
- Event #316: Faith, Family, and LGBTQ Equality (MP3)
- Event #418: The Future of Women (MP3)
- Event #425: At the Intersection of Queerness and Disability (MP3)
Social Justice
- Organizing Our Congregations More Effectively For Social Justice
Video - Developing Our Spiritual Leadership for Collective Liberation
Video - Event #221: Building Interfaith Partnerships to Address Climate Justice (MP3)
- Event #231: Exploring Regional and Interfaith Grassroots Organizing for Climate Justice (MP3)
- Event #241: Building Bridges of Understanding Across Class and Racial Differences (MP3)
- Event #249: Youth Racial Justice Week in 75 Minutes or Less (MP3)
- Event #257: Sustainable Development and Interfaith Action against Climate Change (Video)
- Event #314: Addressing Poverty: Interfaith and Intercultural Relationships (MP3)
- Event #321: Broad-Based Coalitions for Palestine-Israel Solidarity (MP3)
- Event #336: Faith Communities Can Work Together to Reverse Climate Change (MP3)
- Event #350: Beyond the Border: Action for Immigrant Justice (MP3)
- Event #411: Shared Liberation: Movement Building That Honors Front-line Communities (MP3)
- Event #433: Addressing the Climate Crisis through Our Investments (Video)
- Event #434: Engaged Justice: Covenantal Organizing for Today’s Movements (Video)
Stewardship and Development
- Annual Giving: The Backbone of Congregational Stewardship
Video - Stewardship for Congregations in Transition
Audio Recording, Handouts, and Slides - Legacy of Interconnection: Planned Giving Made Easy
Video and Handouts - Addressing the Climate Crisis Through Our Investments
Slides - Innovation and Inspiration for UU Stewardship
Video - Event #220: Legacy of Interconnection: Planned Giving Made Easy (MP3)
- Event #244: Funding with Justice: Exploring Stewardship and Inequality (MP3)
- Event #318: Generosity, Covenant, and the Annual Program Fund (MP3)
- Event #420: Annual Giving: The Backbone of Congregational Stewardship (MP3)
- Event #435: Creative Fundraising for Today's Ministries (MP3)
Theology and Spirituality
- Event #211: Hybrid Unitarian Universalists: Exploring Our Own Multiple Identities (Video)
- Event #335: The Transient and the Permanent in Theological Education (MP3)
- Event #408: Listening to the Humanist Voices (Video)
- Event #430: Harnessing Wisdom by Surfacing Difference: Universalism in Action (MP3)
UUA Governance
- Event #204: 2016 Elected Candidates Forum (Video)
- Event #250: Interested in Serving Your UUA? (MP3)
- Event #261: Forum on Renewing the Covenant (MP3)
- Event #307: GA UUA 2016 Fiscal Year Hearing (Video)
- Event #325: Business Mini-Assembly 1 (Video)
- Event #338: Funding To Fuse Our Faith (MP3)
- Event #348: Business Mini-Assembly 2 (MP3)
- Event #429: A Vision for Social Witness (Video)
Worship
- Event #310: Not Your Grandmother's Sabbath (MP3)