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  • Like Essex before it, Threshold Conversations seeks to lift up and promote the essential work of religious education as the learning process through which we grow in faith; ideally as a lifelong endeavor, for all UUs. Now, Threshold Conversations seeks to expand that vision of religious education.
    September 27, 2022 | From Call and Response
  • Learn how Sociocracy can use the wisdom of the circle to help our congregations thrive by decentering unhelpful power structures.
    Webinar | By Renee Ruchotzke | September 23, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • Our faith calls us to resist the temptation to weaponize words. This story shows how hard that can be.
    Reflection | By Wren Bellavance-Grace | September 22, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations
  • Disability advocates remind us that multiplatform worship in real time, with the chance for some interaction, creates a meaningful experience for those participating online.
    Book | By Sarah Movius Schurr, Renee Ruchotzke | September 21, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • When you are depending on volunteers to care for your congregation, you will want to keep your ministry manageable, and provide relevant training for those providing the programming.
    September 20, 2022 | From LeaderLab
  • 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
  • The following (from the Northlake UU Church in Kirkland, WA) is an example of a chater (or charge) for a Right Relationship Team (aka Healthy Congregation Team): Purposes: To facilitate the well-being of the _________ Community by fostering harmonious relations and mediating conflicts within the...
    Book | By Northlake UU Church, Kirkland, WA | August 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • Choose members who are well respected and trusted based on their spiritual maturity and deep listening skills. Conflict transformation requires vulnerability, which requires trust.
    Book | August 26, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership
  • Support and accountability for different aspects of right relationship lie within different parts of the congregation. 
    Book | August 26, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • We're undertaking the first significant revisiting of the methodology behind our Salary Recommendations since the UUA Compensation Program was introduced in 1995.
    By Jan Gartner, Sean Griffin | August 24, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations
  • Any time someone enters online or in-person congregational space, there are several opportunities for multiple connection points from which a long-term relationship can continue and grow.
    By Sharon Dittmar | August 17, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • A polarity is an interdependent pair of needs, values, or goals. Although the two poles seem to be in tension with each other, both are good and true, and they depend on each other over time. Neither can exist alone. Use Polarity Thinking to reframe competing needs as complementary.
    By Jan Gartner | August 12, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations
  • Our covenants articulate our intention, but how do we live into the practice? Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on values of mutuality and consent. 
    Book | By Tandi Rogers, Renee Ruchotzke | July 27, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • UUA staff presentation to support religious professionals in orienting youth ministry volunteers that includes group discussions following videos. Youth adult partnerships, roles and relationships, covenant, community building and safety are covered
    June 13, 2022 | From Youth Ministry
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
  • BIPoC Leaders rooted in the Unitarian Universalist congregations are invited to take part in Taproot: A National BIPoC Space. This is a monthly, virtual gathering where participants will engage in rest and renewal, analysis building, and leadership development.
    June 7, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Leadership Development
  • 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
  • When handling sensititve information, leaders need to understand what they can share and what they need to keep confidential.
    June 3, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards
  • Congregations, like all organizational systems, need feedback loops.  Regular assessment of the ministry is essential to group self-awareness and growth.
    Book | By Renee Ruchotzke | May 26, 2022 | From The Congregational Handbook
    Tagged as: Mission/Vision/Planning, Shared Ministry Teams
  • Maybe you’ve heard the inspirational story about the starfish. It’s often told as a celebration of a young child’s hope triumphing over a curmudgeonly elder’s resignation to the inevitability of encroaching doom. But taking those signifiers out of the story, and it goes something like this:...
    By Wren Bellavance-Grace | May 25, 2022 | From Centering Gifts