Connect to BIPOC YEAs and programs across UUism and at General Assembly, consult with UUA staff.

Works well: with members who connect with imagery. Draw the outline of a body on the paper. Inside the the body participants add images and drawings that represent belonging. Outside the body they add images representing exclusion.

Works well: when using From Many to One or the Ideation Activity. Optional: share a list of needs (search "universal needs") and gifts (search "talents and skills for community") for members to choose from. Framework: Our covenants are our promises to each other. One of the things that makes...

Works best for: A group where some people are dominant speakers and others’ voices go unheard, a larger group, a group that has difficulty coming to agreement. Each person writes down a few key points they would like included, the group elects delegates to synthesize.

Works best for: with members who've built a covenant before, a group of less than 8 people, when you have time for discussion. Start with a blank page and whatever is in the minds of participants. The group goes through four stages of ideating.

Works best for: a group that's never covenanted before and needs a lot of guidance or a group with a very short amount of time to build a covenant. Add, change and rearrange is the name of the game. The facilitators of the group provide a starting point for the covenanting process.

Parameters: 1 or more people in person or online. Reflective prompts inviting participants to remember moments when they truly mattered. Through writing, doodling, or daydreaming, they explore what it feels like to be needed, valued, and woven into a sense of belonging.

Parameters: more than 5 people, an open space. 2 players hold hands or connectors to form the amoeba. The amoeba approaches other players and absorbs them by taking their hand/connector. The game ends when all players have been absorbed. There are lots of variations.

Print and post the Coffee Hour Caution flyer in the space you gather after worship! Advice for greeting young adults at church.

Parameters: 1 or more people, in person or online. Access to decision-makers to support changes. How accessible/inclusive is the path to the meeting space?

Takeaways may include: naming preferences and opinions, learning about opposing preferences and opinions from others, exploring differences. Parameters: more than two people, in person or virtually. Review the covenant....

Parameters: more than 2 people, in person and/or virtually. Plan an event together! You group could plan an hour long experience, a half day, an overnighter or a weekend experience. Consider how to make it inclusive, safe, accessible, sustainable and equitable.

Parameters: more than two people, in person. Access to a kitchen and cooking equipment. Depending on the capacity and skill level of your group, decide which tasks you as facilitator will hold and which the group will hold. In the end consider, why is food important in community?

Parameters: more than 2 people in person. It's possible to do a ropes course with a group of wide ranging abilities and bodies. This is a list of questions to ask before designing or booking an experience.

Parameters: 4 or more people, in person. The object of the game is to collaborate on making a structure. Before play starts, give everyone who wants one a leadership role to play with. Ex: Amplify everything the person to the right of you suggests. Facilitate a decision making process with the group

Parameters: Can be done individually or in a group in person. Considering peoples preferences, allergies and sensitivities, invite everyone to bring in a handful of things that delight their senses and indulge!

Parameters: in person groups of more than 3. Have everyone write down something they need to hear right now. Have everyone crumple up their pieces of paper and throw them around the room at each other. Invite each person to open some up and read them aloud or pass them to someone else to read.

Parameters: can be done individually or as a group, in person or virtually. If sharing out, create smaller groups depending on the comfort level of participants. Think of a time in the past when you felt lost. From your wise self, write a blessing or prayer for your younger self.

Parameters: can be done individually or as a group. This is a self care metaphor. The teacup is our body or capacity. The tea is our energy or input. What's on the saucer is our output, what we have to give others. This metaphor suggests we need a full cup of energy and can give from the overflow!

Parameters: Best for groups of 5-8 people who come together more than once (ex: 2x during an overnighter, weekly on Sundays, etc.) This goes by many names in Unitarian Universalist communities: chalice circles, touch groups, gaggle groups, touch base groups, and care groups are but a few.