Prepare yourself for the presence of guests in your workshop by reflecting on the relationship you have built with each guest. Prepare yourself for the possibility that participants may hear authentic feedback and opinions they are unaccustomed to hearing from People of Color and other people...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Filling the Void of Missing Voices 75 Activity 2: Prepare for Workshop 18 Field Trip 5 Closing 30 Alternate Activity 1: Photographs from Missing Voices 75...

The second kind of (multicultural) community consists of a time and place where these different monocultural communities can encounter each other in true dialogue. This requires the leaders of the communities to be intentional about drawing culturally diverse people together. — Eric H. F. Law, in...

"The Bridge Poem" from The Black Back-Ups: Poetry by Kate Rushin (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1993). Permission pending. I've had enough. I'm sick of seeing and touching both side of things. Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody. Nobody can talk to anybody without me. Right?...

Choose a timekeeper to keep the group on task. You will have 20 minutes to create your skit Invite each person in your small reflection group to share a personal experience where the multicultural skill or practice was absent or well done. Limit yourselves to a brief, one-minute story. Choose the...

Participate in Cross-Cultural or Multicultural Conversations Create opportunities to learn about and engage others in conversations across differences. Live Multiculturally Be aware and competent in talking about racial, ethnic, or cultural differences. Create policies and practices to guide your...

Activity time: 65 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Reflection group assignments (Workshop 2) Workshop 14, Handout 3, Multicultural Competence Worksheet Handout 2, Procedure for Creating a Skit Preparation for Activity Copy the Multicultural Competence Worksheet (Worksho...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, The Bridge Poem Preparation for Activity Print Leader Resource 1, The Bridge Poem and practice reading it aloud. Or, recruit a volunteer to read the poem aloud and give it to them so they can practice....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Path toward a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1, Path toward a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation for all participants. Description of Activity Distribute the handout. Invite comments,...

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? Do we need to make any changes in the way we work together?

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Lined paper, pens, and pencils Taking It Home Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: What are you learning? What are you curious about? What powerful ideas, concerns, puzzlements do you want the facilitators to know about?...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Participant evaluations from previous workshop List of this workshop's Goals Covenant established in Workshop 1 Preparation for Activity Review participant...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music and player Optional: Snacks and beverages Preparation for Activity Arrange chairs in a circle and set out name tags and markers on a table....

As you prepare to guide participants in developing multicultural consciousness and practices, remember that your congregation has entrusted you with leadership of this program not only to foster the participants' spiritual growth. The goal of this program is to encourage the entire congregation's...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Moving toward Multicultural Competence 15 Activity 2: Challenges of Building Multicultural Communities 20 Activity 3: Developing Multicultural Competence through Skits 65 Closing 10...

Wherever I go this year, leaders are telling me stories of what their congregations are doing to address issues of race and class. From film series to book groups to newly formed congregational task forces to deal with issues of oppression, the actions of UU congregations tell me that the 2006...

There must be always remaining in every life some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and—by an inherent prerogative, throwing all the rest of life into a new and creative relatedness—something that gathers up in itself all the freshets...

We may have it! Millions upon millions of people everywhere are drifting from the old formulations, no longer willing to view the ancient myths as religious truths. They are looking for a vital, modern religion with a personal and social imperative. We may have it! I think we do!...

From the forthcoming Tapestry of Faith program, A History of Unitarian Universalist Resistance and Transformation. The involvement of Unitarian Universalist clergy and laypeople in the series of civil rights marches in and between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 is often regarded as a...

"Report examines racism, youth at 2005 General Assembly," by Tom Stites and Christopher L. Walton. Reprinted with permission from UU World online, February 6, 2006. Copyright 2006 Unitarian Universalist Association. After conducting more than 80 interviews to probe events distressing to Unitarian...