First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville (FUUN) https://www.firstuunash.org/ Widening the Circle of Concern (WTC) Program as of March 2023 https://www.firstuunash.org/widening-the-circle-of-concern/   Background Planning and pre-work for WTC began in August 2021 after discussions with other…

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

The UU Congregation of Phoenix Board of Trustees is reading Widening the Circle of Concern and devoting a portion of our monthly Board Working Group meetings to discussions of the chapters, and how we can do our part, as a Congregation, to widen the circle.

The Board has reviewed and provided priorities to look at first, and a working group is helping coordinate bringing our existing activities and structures into better forms under these guidelines. We are grateful for this work.

As a Board we have decided to read the report in sub-groups. We will then discuss sections each week and plan to finish by January 2021 so that we can incorporate any recommendations into any planning and budgeting for the upcoming budget year (July 2021-June 2022)

We have a group going in-depth through Widening the Circle of Concern report, as a formal task force of the board. We will be providing a compilation of suggestions and action items for the congregation as a result, and will be engaging with an institutional anti-racism audit as well.

Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church , Walnut Creek, CA, has committed to a two year (minimum) process to study the recommendations and to implement actions as congregation-approved Board goal. Incorporating accountability, our Board meetings include updates on the process of this goal, Board liaisons are…

Our Board of Trustees is reading "Widening the Circle of Concern" and reflecting together on a different aspect each month. Our staff will be working through the study guide together.

15 people gathered over the past 18 months to read and study Widening the Circle. The group made recommendations to the Board and various teams/committees on actions that could be taken to more fully live in to Beloved Community.

We have a group of 18-20 meeting on Zoom once a week from January - March 2021 using the Widening the Circle of Concern Study guide. I am facilitating the group and creating a Powerpoint from the questions in the study guide to use in each week's meeting. I would be glad to share these materials with other…

Our settled minister, the Rev. Jack Donovan, led a six-week, twice daily (10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.) virtual study group of Widening the Circle. Several members of that discussion group are now planning to continue these efforts by forming an ADORE group at UU St. Pete to continue discussing diversity, equity, and…

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.

We are engaging in monthly study and discussion of Widening the Circle, noting recommendations for continued action.

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.

The board and congregants are currently reading, discussing and reflecting the report.

We are taking the year to go through "Widening the Circle" chapter by chapter, noting the actions we could take. We will review the actions when we complete the study, share recommendations with the Board and congregation, and move forward. The congregation did affirm Black Lives Matter by vote earlier this fall, and…

We are doing a four-week adult formation series--Mondays, 26 Oct-16 Nov 2020--@ lunch time. Brown bag and scintillating conversation on Zoom!

Working through the study guide over the coming weeks and months.

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.

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. Begins…