Why have a facilitator who is not a group participant? There are many good reasons, but the very best one is that it is extremely difficult to be a facilitator and a participant....

Size of the Group The group should comprise six to ten participants—eight is ideal—not including the facilitator. A group of this size is large enough to include diversity of perspective and experience while still small enough for participants to build trust and intimacy. It has the added...

From the High Hill is a guide to personal journey in a group setting. It involves two facilitated retreat weekends, Friday evening to mid-day Sunday, with a month in between for participants to write their Odysseys. The first weekend focuses on building a supportive group and exploring personal...

Benediction from Telling Our Stories, Celebrating Ourselves by the Women and Religion Task Force. Published by the Pacific Central District, UUA, 1998....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, Social Justice Resources Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 2 for all participants....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity With your co-facilitator brainstorm themes, issues, and historical events you think this program did not cover. Post blank newsprint....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Timepiece (minutes) A bell or chime Preparation for Activity Discuss with your co-facilitator the workshops you found most inspiring....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Workshop 2, Handout 1, Prophetic, Parallel and Institutional Voices Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity On a sheet of newsprint, label four quadrants: Prophetic, Parallel, Institutional, and Combination/Other. Re-read Workshop 2,...

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Would you run the program again? What might you do differently? Has the program changed the way you think about...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice A bell or chime Handout 1, Responsive Reading Taking It Home handout Optional: Handout 2, Social Justice Resources Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy for...

Description of Activity Share with other members of your congregation the parts of the program you found to be most inspiring. You might do this through conversation during coffee hour, a worship service, newsletter or website articles, or a presentation as part of an adult religious education...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Timepiece (minutes) Chime or bell Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, for all participants Participant journals Writing materials, includin...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use), and bold markers Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on newsprint. Set out sign-in sheet and name tags.

Since this is the last workshop of Resistance and Transformation, take time reflect on your experience as a workshop facilitator. What did you learn about yourself? About Unitarian Universalism? Will anything from the program change the way you lead your daily life? Approach social justice work?

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 15 Activity 1: Parallel, Prophetic and Institutional 20 Activity 2: Inspiration 25 Activity 3: Is There More? 15 Faith in Action: Sharing Inspiration Closing 15 Alternate Activity 1: Finding a Way Forward 30...

We come to a time when we realize that the faith we have inherited is inadequate for what we are facing...at such moments we have three choices: We can hold to our religious beliefs and deny our experience, we can hold to our experience and walk away from our religious tradition, or we can become...

These are some responses to the Common Vision Planning Committee survey as reported to the UUA Board of Trustees, January 1989. I try to be to be tolerant of it even though I’m not very comfortable about it. I try to be welcoming. I guess you could say my feelings and thoughts are inconsistent.

This is a portion of a 1972 curriculum, which consisted of filmstrips and LP records. This resource includes an audio file and a video file. There are beeps in the audio file indicating when to advance from image to image just as there were in the original. Filmstrip Part 1 (PPT) Filmstrip Part 2...

1969 Stonewall riots occur in New York. 1970 LGBT rights marches held in New York and Los Angeles to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots. 1972 East Lansing, Michigan and Ann Arbor, Michigan and San Francisco, California pass the first ordinances offering homosexuals some...

By Donald E. Skinner. Previously published in UU World magazine, June 2, 2006. Used with permission. The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations marked a milestone in its support for bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people this week as a Georgia church become the 500th UU...