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What does it mean to live in covenantal community? What does it mean to practice community care?Reflection | By CB Beal | June 11, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: CovenantPage/Article -
By using the policy-making process from Sociocracy, you can craft policies that are comprehensive, inclusive, and relational.Video | By Renee Ruchotzke | June 7, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & PoliciesPage/Article -
Board policies capture a thoughtful process of discernment that will help to guide future decision-making and actions.Video | By Renee Ruchotzke | June 7, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & PoliciesPage/Article
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This training helps you create your behavioral covenant, communicate its importance to your congregation members, and strategize to make your covenant come alive in your congregationTraining | By Safe Congregations Team | June 4, 2024 (reviewed June 2025) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Healthy BehaviorPage/Article -
Help your board get off to a great start! Your CER staff is ready to partner with you.June 3, 2024 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Governing Boards, Leadership DevelopmentPage/Article -
The final CER Skill Up for the year was held on Tuesday, May 7th with the topic The Seeds That Have Sprouted: A Celebration of What Has Grown. Our main presenters were Rev. Sunshine Wolfe and Lenore Bajare-Dukes. In order to capture the surprising and beautiful new ways we’re finding of doing...By Central East Region of the UUA | May 20, 2024 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Leadership Development, Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article
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Unitarian Universalists from six continents carried their aspirations to Prague, Czech Republic, and explored possibilities to sustain and grow the faith.By Renee Hills | April 29, 2024 | From UU WorldTagged as: Beginnings, Community, Connections, Covenant, Covenant, Equity, History, Identity, Leadership, Leadership Development, Mission/Vision/Planning, Relationships, Tradition, Vision for UUismPage/Article -
First UU Church of Nashville took serious action to implement ‘Widening the Circle of Concern’ culture changes. Here are insights from that journey.By Andrea Dulanto | April 1, 2024 | From IdeasTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racism, Community, Covenant, Covenant, Identity, Inclusion, Interdependence, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Relationships, Social Justice, Teamwork, Unity, UU Beliefs, UU IdentityPage/Article -
Books, training organizations, and other resources for congregations exploring Sociocracy.February 14, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for CongregationsPage/Article -
If your congregation is facing decisions about selling your building, merging with another congregation, or dissolving, we have resources to help guide you.February 1, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for CongregationsPage/Article -
Let's forgo the pressure of resolutions and spend time in healing community instead.By Beth Monhollen | January 3, 2024 | From UU WorldTagged as: Acceptance, Beginnings, Community, Covenant, Empathy, Friendship, Grace, Healing, Interdependence, Kindness, Principles and Purposes, Relationships, Spiritual PracticePage/Article -
In churches with fewer than 30 members, keep your policies simple and practical.Book | By Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine | November 29, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Small CongregationsPage/Article -
Your directory or online membership database is a powerful connection tool for your members and friends. But it also has the potential to be misused or abused.Leader Resource | November 16, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Membership in CongregationsPage/Article -
Safety policies help to prevent interpersonal harm as well as safeguards for your assets such as money and building.Leader Resource | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | November 15, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Professional Misconduct, Safe Congregations, Safely Staffing Your CongregationsPage/Article -
While the requirements for membership are in your bylaws, you also need policies ithat define participation, financial support, etc.Leader Resource | November 13, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Membership in CongregationsPage/Article -
The UUA doesn’t dictate any particular governance model, but congregations have historically explored new models in "waves."By Renee Ruchotzke | October 16, 2023 | From The Congregational HandbookTagged as: Governance for CongregationsPage/Article -
Members of your Southern Region worked with Team LeaderLab & UU Institute to bring the new Leading Large Board Retreat to our large congregations this summer....By Lillian Drab-Braddick | September 28, 2023 | From Southern RegionTagged as: Governing Boards, Leadership DevelopmentPage/Article -
This training shares the history of covenant, theological and ethical concerns, how to think about accountability and responsibility, and some tools for transformation in your congregation.Training | By Safe Congregations Team | September 21, 2023 (reviewed February 2025) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Safe CongregationsPage/Article -
When your congregation is developing or revisiting "guiding documents" for leaders that are endorsed by the congregation as a whole (e.g. mission, vision, covenant, bylaws, strategic plan), you will want to have an effective and inclusive process that makes space for creative ideas to emerge.Leader Resource | By Renee Ruchotzke | September 11, 2023 (reviewed August 2025) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
This “next level” training for boards goes into its roles as fiduciary agents, spiritual leaders, strategic thinkers, and change agents.Training | By Congregational Life | August 1, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governing BoardsPage/Article