Connie Goodbread

Acting Director, HOPE for Us Conflict Engagement Team

HOPE for Us Conflict Engagement Team in Congregational Life

Email: cgoodbread@uua.org

Telephone: (727) 772-3508

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Connie Goodbread is serving Unitarian Universalism as HOPE for Us Conflict Engagement Team Director. Connie studied Healthy Congregations development and conflict identification and transformation with Rev. Dr. Peter Steinke. She developed a conflict process called Pathfinder that was born out of that work with Rev. Dr. Peter Steinke.

Connie served as Co-Lead of UUA Southern Region for three years. She has served in one capacity or another in every region of our Association. Prior to that she served two congregations as a Credentialed Religious Educator.

From Connie Goodbread

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He asked, “Can you explain the logic behind having Dwight Brown Leadership Experience in May in Arkansas?” “Why, yes I can.” I replied. The Southern Region staff routinely hears from congregational leaders and staff members who are concerned about the cost, timing, location, and occasional...

By Connie Goodbread, Christine Purcell | November 8, 2017 | From Southern Region

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - Buddha Siddhartha had been raised in privilege and opulence. He had been pampered and protected from the horrors of the world. When he found himself in the real world, where there was death, disease, poverty,...

By Connie Goodbread | August 1, 2017 | From Southern Region

Hey, all you “Lovers of Leaving!” Yeah, you. You know I’m talking to you. We’ve all done it. Maybe we’ve done it a few times. And if we haven’t actually DONE it, then we’ve all certainly THOUGHT about it. Leaving, I mean. When things get rough, we tend to split. Check-out. Take our...

By Natalie Briscoe, Connie Goodbread | April 19, 2017 | From Southern Region

Deepen your connection to your faith community and turn your congregation into a real faith home with this collection of suggestions and ideas. Pack of 25 pamphlets.To read this pamphlet click here. Being reprinted - available for backorder...

Pamphlet or Card | By Connie Goodbread, Richard Speck | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop

If we start fighting amongst ourselves, we are doomed. - Remus Lupin (Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling) I will add that if we keep fighting amongst ourselves, we are doomed. If we cannot get clear on the big picture and stop fighting over the irrelevant and the petty, we are doomed. If we cannot...

By Connie Goodbread | January 5, 2017 | From Southern Region

Small congregations are trying to do too much. They are struggling to put together a quality meaningful worship service and a Children’s Faith Development Program every Sunday. Let’s try something different.

Audio Recording | By Connie Goodbread | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab

Great leaders continually examine their motives. They ask themselves, “On what principle am I taking this stand? Am I acting for the common good? Am I trying to push a personal agenda? Do I just want my way or is there a principle at stake here?” Great leaders will admit to themselves when they...

By Connie Goodbread | January 22, 2009 | From LeaderLab

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