Join us for a series of empowering conversations tailored for congregational leaders: "How to Have Difficult Conversations." In today's challenging landscape, congregations often find themselves grappling with complex issues and sensitive topics.

Creating beloved community requires intention and practice. Our covenants articulate our intention, but how do we live into the practice? Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on our values

Open and honest communication is essential between the board and the minister. Here are some guidelines and practices to help navigate difficult conversations.

In UU congregations, conflict avoidance, a sense of urgency, and either/or thinking can make it difficult to engage conflicts well. We will learn to engage conflicts of various kinds in ways that lead toward Beloved Community.

Being able to name harmful behaviors is the first step in being able to respond to them.

Our faith calls us to resist the temptation to weaponize words. This story shows how hard that can be.

The mental model of the "Social Discipline Window" can be helpful in understanding different patterns of how we might respond when someone is causing harm in our communities.

Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on values of mutuality and consent.

The following (from the Northlake UU Church in Kirkland, WA) is an example of a chater (or charge) for a Right Relationship Team (aka Healthy Congregation Team): Purposes: To facilitate the well-being of the _________ Community by fostering harmonious relations and mediating conflicts within the...

Support and accountability for different aspects of right relationship lie within different parts of the congregation.