Widening the Circle - Action Map
The strength of our association is found in the connections we make with each other. Share how your congregation or UU community is engaging with the Commission on Institutional Change's report. How are your people embodying a commitment to collective transformation and liberation?
To add your congregation or community to the map, you'll need to create or log in to your UUA.org account. Instructions will appear once you click on "Share your action" below.
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WTCC Central IL CollaborationUU Church of Bloomington Normal, Bloomington, IL, Abraham Lincoln UU Congregation, Springfield, IL, UU Church of Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria, Peoria, IL, UU Fellowship of Decatur, Decatur, IL
Members of five Central Illinois congregations are joining together to read, discuss, and plan actions based on the report. Led by ministers and religious educators from Urbana, Bloomington, Peoria, Decatur, and Springfield, the group is meeting online weekly from January 21-April 1.
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Widening the Circle of Concern Working GroupUnitarian Society of Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
We started educating leaders about the report through our Ending Racism Committee.
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Diversity Inclusion & Accountability CircleUU Fellowship of Montgomery AL Inc., Montgomery, AL
Advisory team conducting biweekly conversations with minister & staff for examination, interrogation, and expansion of congregational inclusion across race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and other areas of historic marginalization
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Widening the Circle Study GroupThe First Unitarian Church of Hamilton Inc., Hamilton, ON
Beginning in February 2021, our congregation will be using the Widening the Circle of Concern Study/Action Guide for group discussion with interested members of the congregation. Our Minister Rev. Victoria Ingram and Religious Educator Tim Versteeg will be facilitating the group. In December 2020 Rev.
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Widening the Circle Steering CommitteeUnitarian Society of Northampton & Florence, Northampton, MA
We are just beginning to go through the study guide, to bring our congregation together, and to work to transform our community and dismantle white supremacy culture.
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Board Study/Action on Widening the Circle of ConcernUU Congregation of Fairfax, Oakton, VA
Board members are reading Widening the Circle of Concern. A sub group of the Board will meet before the first Board meeting each month to discuss the assigned pages and possible action steps for our congregation.
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WUU Program Council working groupWilliamsburg UUs, Williamsburg, VA
Our Program Council (staff and ministry team leads) has begun to act on the report. We have a working group reviewing the report in depth & will begin a full-group discussion this month about next steps, including actions we can begin to take as ministry teams right away.
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Congregation and Board reading & reflecting on the the reportUnitarian Church of Evanston, Evanston, IL
The board and congregants are currently reading, discussing and reflecting the report.
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Laying the FoundationFirst Unitarian Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
As recommended in the Study/Action guide, the Board is laying the foundation to educate the congregation and bring them into the process to ensure that there is sufficient buy-in to proceed with convening a dedicated group/task-force.
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Widening the Circle of Concern Workshop SeriesUU Meeting of South Berkshire, Housatonic, MA
Once/month workshops from December 2020 - January 2022. Two sessions for setting foundations, and then making our way through the given curriculum from the UUA. Facilitators are a professional anti-racism trainer/organizer and a lay SEED trainer from the congregation, with minister assisting in each session.