Trainings by Audience

For UU Leaders in the Pacific Western Region

PWR Series for Boards — Fall 2025

Core Training A: Board Basics

This webinar has already taken place. If you would like to read the slides and view a recording of Board Basics, contact our administrator at the “for more information” link below.

Core Training B: Being a Board in 2025

Everyone who serves on the board of a UU congregation or covenanting community in the Pacific Western Region is welcome to this participatory live webinar about issues facing our boards in 2025-2026. We’ll explore the challenges of leading in these volatile and uncertain times, and share frameworks from Adaptive Leadership and Emergent Strategy that can help boards lead with vision and purpose. We’ll share resources and ideas for responding to conflict, destructive behavior, and crises (both internal and external.) And we will lift up how the work of the board can be seen and experienced as community care.

This webinar has already taken place. If you would like to read the slides and view a recording of Board Basics, contact our administrator at the “for more information” link below.

Topic-Focused Board Modules

In October and November 2025, we are hosting one-hour webinars exploring the board’s specific role in addressing congregational challenges: some that feel like “good problems to have” and some that boards find continually aggravating. We will explore:

• The Board’s Role in Mending Broken Trust: October 21st & October 23rd. When hard things happen to congregations (things like destructive conflicts, professional misconduct, divisive personnel issues, financial mismanagement) trust in the institution, its leadership, or its very people can become weak—or even break. When you’re serving on a board in the aftermath of broken trust, rebuilding trust is trickier than just behaving in trustworthy ways. Join us to explore case studies and practices for boards that want to help rebuild trust in their congregations. For a recording, contact our administrator at the address below.
• The Board’s Role in Addressing Conflict: October 28th, and repeated on October 30th. When conflict arises in our congregations and communities, what special role does the board play? What are some strategies and practices boards can adopt to live into our UU shared values and address conflict proactively and transformatively? What resources—UU and beyond—can the board access to help the conflict be addressed? Join us for a presentation and discussion designed to equip boards for effective religious leadership in these times. For a recording, contact our administrator at the address below.

PWR Congregational Presidents’ Gatherings

Each month, PWR staff host a gathering for presidents/chairs/moderators of our congregations and covenanting communities. To learn more and receive an invitation, reach out to your primary contact on regional staff.

PWR Treasurers’ Roundtable

This is a special monthly opportunity for treasurers of our congregations and covenanting communities to learn from one another, our PWR staff, and guest speakers on finance-related topics. To learn more and receive an invitation, reach out to your primary contact on regional staff.

For UU Leaders in Any Region

Congregational Leaders Conversation: Monthly Series, 2025-2026

Each month, leaders from across the country gather to hear an esteemed guest speak on an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism. The presentation is followed by time for Q&A and small group discussion. If you are a lay or professional leader in a UU congregation or community, in the role of clergy, Board member, welcome team volunteer, administrator, small group facilitator, Religious Educator, or another capacity, we hope you’ll join the conversation. Learn more and register for Congregational Leaders Conversations.

Trainings for All Kinds of Leaders

Visit the UUA’s LeaderLab, UUInstitute and the Our Whole Lives training calendar to learn more about trainings, webinars, and offerings to support your community’s specific needs.