The Guide to Becoming a Safer Congregation provides guidance about handing destructive behavior from the UUA’s Safer Congregations team:
Disruptive Behavior Guidance
From Safe Congregagtions Handbook
Give the leadership of the congregation more tools to stop abusive, harmful, inappropriate, and otherwise destructive behavior in your midst.
Sample Destructive Behavior Policies
Some Unitarian Universalist congregations have kindly shared their policies to provide others with an array of examples that help guide the process in developing policies specific to your congregation:
- Sample Policy developed for GA 2019 workshop, Combating Destructive Behavior and White Supremacy Culture (Updated 2023)
- Policy Regarding Conflicts, Violations of Covenant, and Destructive Behavior (PDF) from the UU Church, Rockford, IL
- Sample Policy for Disruptive Behavior (PDF)
- Sample Policies for Behavior During Meetings (PDF)
For specific guidance on your congregation’s destructive behavior policy, contact safecongregations@uua.org. Our UUA Congregational Life staff will be in touch with you.