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  • Learn to work together to reinforce life-affirming and creative frameworks and use practical tools for welcoming and inclusion, connection and belonging, all as foundational to a membership journey in your congregation grounded in mutuality and consent.
    Training | By Congregational Life, Unitarian Universalist Association of Membership Professionals | March 15, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Anticipate and plan for how to respond to violent threats, vandalism, doxxing, and other forms of intimidation and harassment.
    Training | By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | October 21, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Trauma and Disaster Response
  • When you’re a member of a vibrant congregation, you hope for a deep and radical welcome there. You want to be able to bring your whole self, and feel called to be your best self, accountable to the vision of beloved community the community shares. In these congregations, when actions, words, or...
    Training | September 21, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Covenant, Safe Congregations
  • Based on the theology of Creative Interchange, this training is for teams who have the honor of co-creating meaning while shaping the worship experience of the congregation.
    Training | By Erika Hewitt | September 13, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • This “next level” training for boards goes into its roles as fiduciary agents, spiritual leaders, strategic thinkers, and change agents.
    Training | By Congregational Life | August 1, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards
  • Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on values of mutuality and consent.
    Training | August 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • Our mandate as Unitarian Universalists is to build Beloved Community in our congregations, and learning to draw our circles of welcome wider and wider is a growth opportunity for our churches.
    Training | By Megan Foley, Sana Saeed, Evin Carvill Ziemer | June 7, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Diversity & Inclusion, Hospitality, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • The need for our congregations to effectively engage with people online has never been greater! In this free five-session series, Peter Bowden shares video-based strategies to support online visitors, increase engagement with weekly worship themes, and amplify advocacy and witness efforts.
    Training | By Peter Bowden | June 6, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership, Outreach & Marketing
  • A guide for group conversations around practices that help congregations live into their commitments to dismantling systems of oppression in themselves and their communities.
    Training | By New England Region of the UUA, Michael J. Crumpler | April 8, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism
  • Are you a small congregation looking for fresh ideas? Here are presentations and other resources from the UUA conference in March of 2022.
    Training | April 8, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations
  • People of faith who long for a transformed world are called to claim their Spiritual Leadership. Our souls need it. Our congregations need it. Our world needs it.
    Training | By New England Region of the UUA | October 15, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership, Nourishing the Spirit
  • Learn how to use discernment circle practices for complex decisions in your committees and teams.
    Training | By Renee Ruchotzke, Patricia Infante | May 23, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Effective Meetings, Governance for Congregations
  • Companioning one another spiritually is one of the most important ministries of a faith community. This two-part training has been created for non-ordained congregational leaders.
    Training | By UUA Credentialing and Professional Development, Ministries and Faith Development | May 16, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Pastoral Care
  • A Keynote and workshops from a 2020 online conference. Topics include culture, strategies, communication about money and effective asks.
    Training | By Elizabeth Ann Terry | April 8, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Stewardship for Congregations
  • The PLUS Program (or Professional Learning Units for Staff) is designed for new (and relatively new) professional staff in Unitarian Universalist congregations.
    Training | By Jan Gartner | March 2, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision, Congregational Administration
  • Online Course. Develop advanced leadership skills that will help identify challenges. Learn how to help others see challenges in new ways, empower others and find creative solutions together. This course includes developing your own case study.
    Training | By UU Leadership Institute, Renee Ruchotzke | November 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
  • Online Training. Develop a deeper understanding of how to focus your congregation on mission, build trust and develop a cohesive leadership team. Learn about stewardship, strategic planning, annual goal setting and ministry assessment and the basics of congregational governance.
    Training | By UU Leadership Institute, Jonipher Kūpono Kwong, Kathy McGowan, Renee Ruchotzke | November 21, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Mission/Vision/Planning, Leadership Development
  • Online Leadership School includes family and other systems thinking applied to congregations. (Similar to Healthy Congregations®) Learn healthy leadership practices, communication and conflict skills, the importance of being mission-focused and how to communicate across differences.
    Training | By UU Leadership Institute, Jonipher Kūpono Kwong, Kathy McGowan, Renee Ruchotzke | November 21, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
  • Online Leadership School for new leaders and those interested in possible leadership. Covers covenant, healthy communication and boundaries, shared ministry, and stewardship & an introduction to congregational polity, UU theologies, and the wider UU movement.
    Training | By UU Leadership Institute, Jonipher Kūpono Kwong, Kathy McGowan, Renee Ruchotzke | November 21, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
  • How do we interact across difference in a way that promotes diversity, inclusion and equity in our congregations that builds deep relationship and an inviting congregational culture?
    Training | April 12, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Diversity & Inclusion
  • Volunteer considerations and strategies that will help to create a culture of generosity in your congregation or organization and therefore, sustainability.
    Training | By Laura Beth Brown | April 11, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership
  • Resources for religious educators, ministers and other congregational leaders to prevent and address violence, abuse, harassment, inappropriate behavior, and other threats to safety.
    Training | By Kim Sweeney | April 11, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Safe Congregations
  • This training is an in-depth exploration of successful Congregational Stewardship from myriad voices, including current and former Parish Ministers, and several UUA Stewardship and Development Staff. This training will explore: the theological and spiritual roots of our giving year-round giving...
    Training | By Darcy Roake, UUA Stewardship and Development | April 11, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Stewardship for Congregations
  • Does your congregation have fewer than 100 members? Do your leaders burn out quickly? Do you get first time visitors but not many repeat visitors?  This training is for you!
    Training | By Megan Foley | April 12, 2017 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • Looking at membership as a spectrum: From fostering a culture of connection to belonging, then to integration and eventually leadership.
    Training | By Lori Emison Clair | April 11, 2017 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership in Congregations
  • Community Organizing Tools and Tips for Interconnection and Impact.
    Training | By Caitlin Breedlove | August 12, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Congregation-Based Community Organizing
  • Mother Teresa wrote, “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” More than two thirds of Unitarian Universalist Churches have fewer than 150 members. In many ways, the future of our faith rests in the continued strength and vitality of these “small”...
    Training | By Karen Brammer, Mark Bernstein, Patricia Infante, Andrea Perry Lerner | April 12, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations
  • The UUA Outreach team offers tips, tools and exercises to help extend the outreach of your congregation!
    Training | By Carey McDonald, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | April 12, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Encouraging members and friends to be generous givers requires a clear message about your mission and a culture of relationship-building. Learn how to make stewardship an organic part of membership.
    Training | By Patricia Infante | April 11, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Stewardship for Congregations