Workshop 10: Understanding Systems In Your Congregation
Workshop 10: Understanding Systems In Your Congregation
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The call to acts of leadership, which can be practiced from wherever we sit, is also an invitation to reclaim the creative capacity within...
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Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering Opening 3 Activity 1: Story — It's Not MY Problem! 10 Activity 2: Applying System Thinking 45 Break...
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Consider a challenge facing your congregation right now. Use the process described in Activity 2 to identify some of the emotional and...
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Materials for Activity Name tags and materials for making name tags Music and player Preparation for Activity Play music to create a...
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Materials for Activity Copies of Singing the Living Tradition , the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Small worship table Chalice, candle and...
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Materials for Activity Story, A Drop of Honey Preparation for Activity Arrange in advance for a participant to read the story aloud...
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Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Heavenly Unitarian Universalist Congregation Newsprint, markers (four different colors) and tape...
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Materials for Activity Handout 1, System Thinking - Guidelines for Leaders Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1 for all participants...
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Materials for Activity Handout 1, System Thinking - Guidelines for Leaders Newsprint, markers (four different colors) and tape for each...
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Materials for Activity A copy of Singing the Living Tradition , the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Description of Activity Gather...
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Looking at each activity in this workshop, what worked as well as or better than you had anticipated? What did not work as well as you...
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Description of Activity Consider some of your congregation's social justice projects and programs using a system lens. How does your...
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Materials for Activity Handout 2, Alternate System Thinking Scenarios Newsprint, markers (four different colors) and tape Preparation for...
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Materials for Activity Handout 1, System Thinking - Guidelines for Leaders Newsprint, markers (four different colors) and tape Paper and...
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The call to acts of leadership, which can be practiced from wherever we sit, is also an invitation to reclaim the creative capacity within...
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Adapted from a Thai folk tale. Once upon a time, a queen sat on her balcony eating rice cakes and honey with her chief advisor. As they ate...
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In the book, How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems (Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 1996), Peter...
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Note: These scenarios appeared in a different form in Workshop 4. Accessibilities Audit Scenario A congregation is planning to do some...
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Heavenly Unitarian Universalist Congregation has a lovely building in a suburban community. It is a congregation well known for its music...
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Section Menu
- Workshop 10: Understanding Systems In Your Congregation
- Introduction
- Workshop-at-a-Glance
- Spiritual Preparation
- Welcoming and Entering
- Opening
- Activity 1: It's Not My Problem!
- Activity 2: Applying System Thinking
- Activity 3: Three Guidelines for Leaders
- Activity 4: Your Congregation's Systems
- Closing
- Leader Reflection and Planning
- Faith In Action: Through a System Lens
- Alternate Activity 1: Alternate System Thinking Scenarios
- Alternate Activity 2: On the Brink of Big Change
- Taking It Home
- A Drop Of Honey
- Handout 1: System Thinking - Guidelines for Leaders
- Handout 2: Alternate System Thinking Scenarios
- Leader Resource 1: Heavenly Unitarian Universalist Congregation
- Preface
- Introduction
- Program Structure
- Leader Guidelines
- Implementation
- Before You Start
- Facilitator Feedback Form
- Participant Feedback Form
- Principles and Sources
- Workshop 1: Leadership Journey
- Workshop 2: Unitarian Universalist Journey
- Workshop 3: Power And Authority
- Workshop 4: Turning Points And Moments Of Grace
- Workshop 5: Fated To Be Free
- Workshop 6: Caring For Ourselves And Each Other
- Workshop 7: Integrity
- Workshop 8: Imagination And Creativity
- Workshop 9: Facing Danger
- Workshop 11: Keeping Distress Productive
- Workshop 12: Adaptive Leadership
- Stories in Harvest the Power
- Handouts in Harvest the Power
- Leader Resources in Harvest the Power