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  • Unitarian Universalism is often referred to as a living faith. For me that means that Unitarian Universalism is in constant motion and changes through the times we live in.
    By Sana Saeed | February 12, 2024 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Leadership Development
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  • Threshold Convo 2: Faith Development and Culture Change coming March 8
    January 25, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Change, Change & Conflict, Culture, Faith, Multiculturalism, Faith Development
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  • As we navigate this spring, some of us may be navigating a difficult end to this congregational year with difficult decisions on the horizon. Some of us may be preparing to end things on an appreciative and hopeful note with bountiful picnics. Some of us may be preparing to take risks...
    By Sana Saeed | May 1, 2023 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Leadership Development
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  • As human beings we are conflict avoidant – until we are not. Then we are willing to destroy one another. Conflict begins when there is more than one idea, opinion, or experience in the room. We are so conflict avoidant that we even avoid using the word conflict for this experience. We can’t see...
    By Connie Goodbread | April 19, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict
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  • When all is going wrong and you're scared as hell What you gonna do? Who you gonna tell? A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah No, I ain't scared of you No, I ain't scared of you no more -AJR, “100 Bad Days”, Neotheater Can you...
    By Megan Foley | April 11, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Spiritual Practice
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  • We had about a minute in, when, June? when we in congregations thought we were on the path to pandemic freedom. I don’t know about you but I definitely was imagining A Return To Normal Church.
    By Megan Foley | September 13, 2021 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Change & Conflict, Leadership Development, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Developing teams and processes to help Congregational Life Staff serve congregations in conflict.
    June 1, 2021 | From MidAmerica News
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Conflict Management in Congregations
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  • In the middle of a pandemic when none of us have all of our cylinders firing consistently, when all of us are experiencing extra pressure, confusion, and fear, as well as illness, loss, and grief, we need to be clear.
    By CB Beal | March 9, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Change & Conflict
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  • When I was a child, I was fascinated by terrariums. There can be something alluring about creating miniature worlds. It’s a chance to observe a world under glass.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | March 8, 2021 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Leadership Development
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  • Learning to understand human communities (and in our case, congregations) as systems has been an ongoing learning process for the past several decades for family therapists, organizational development consultants and social scientists....
    By Renee Ruchotzke | March 5, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Membership Growth & Outreach
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  • An overview of the nine principles of Emergent Strategy from adrienne maree brown.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | January 22, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Leadership Development
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  • A confluence of events has come together to create a season of potential miscommunication, reactivity, and disconnection.
    By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | December 14, 2020 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Staffing & Supervision
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  • Friends, we are in the heart of an overwhelming storm. None of us are operating at full capacity. Most all of us are exhausted. Here is some advice.
    Webinar | By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | December 4, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Change & Conflict, Pastoral Care
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  • Some ways to approach conflict in congregations grounded in our values and principles
    November 13, 2020 | From New England Region
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Conflict Management in Congregations
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  • Creativity is exponential. When people play off one another’s ideas and create new programs, they experience the joy of interconnection and purpose. Such synergy is an amazing experience, but it’s not easy to create the conditions to produce that kind of creative interchange.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | October 5, 2020 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Leadership Development
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  • We’re excited to announce the release of a Study/Action Guide to the Widening the Circle of Concern report! Many of you are looking for ways to bring the hard work and findings of the COIC into the life of your congregation or UU community. This new guide provides 11 session outlines...
    Leader Resource | October 5, 2020
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Change, Change & Conflict, Commitment, Culture, Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Healing, Inclusion, Interdependence, UU Theology, Anti-Oppression, Congregational Action, Anti-Racism
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  • Welcome to the new home for congregations and leaders implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Institutional Change! We’re excited to announce the release of a Study/Action Guide to the Widening the Circle of Concern report.
    October 2, 2020
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Change, Change & Conflict, Commitment, Culture, Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Healing, Inclusion, Interdependence, UU Theology, Anti-Racism
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  • No one fact says more about a group of human beings than its size. Dan Hotchkiss shares some of the differences in dynamics.
    Video | By Dan Hotchkiss | December 19, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Membership Growth & Outreach
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  • Every congregation I go to has a list of things they have to do or want to do that they just can’t do because they don’t have the resources – money, volunteers, energy, space, whatever it is. Maybe it’s time to change your framing so that you can create abundance.
    Leader Resource | By Megan Foley | September 11, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict
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  • When thinking about needed or wanted change, congregations can sometimes feel stymied. And, let’s face it, human systems like religious communities don’t tend to like to change. In a way, we need to trick the system in order to allow in energy and creativity.
    Leader Resource | By Megan Foley | September 11, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Membership Growth & Outreach
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